Re: FIRE TEAMS IN SG II

from actual conversations with old landsers in the 60s, the squad LMG
(gunner-pistol, asst gunner-pistol or rifle or machine pistol and spare
barrel, tripod and ammo, plus an ammo bearer with rifle) and the  actual
squad leader ( machine pistol and pistol) would provide a fire base,
while the asst squad leader ( machine pistol), another trooper with a
mchine pistol, and 4 riflemen, would   fire   and manuever into assault
range.

lol-of course, this 10 soldier	squad TOE was usual a 5-6 soldier
squad, and on the eastern front, the  number of  machine pistols
usually outnumbered rifles!

also, captured USSR SMG and SL rifles were in much demand, even after
the MP-44 was in service.

also, HEER, used  re-chambered, Polish, Czech, and French magazine  fed
LMG in huge  quantities-also the Danish Madsen LMG, as a substitute for
"official arms".

Polish pistols were also used  extensively as a substitute for	offical
sidearms.

from 1943 on, depending on the	area of  operations, the  amount of
captured armor, SP guns,  and other  transport in us by the HEER  was
astonishing.

and still, unless the  landser was in an elite formation, most of his
transport  was by jack boot, horse drawn cart, or commandeered civvie
trucks and cars painted in HEER colors (sometimes).

also, uniforms!  lord-the HEER troopers were  wearing  field gray and
steel gray in every imaginable	shade  variation (even when  new!), camo
jackets and pants, camo smocks, etc, from  German stores, Italian,
Hungarian, SS uniform  items (w/o insiginia) Luftwaffe and Kreigsmarine
uniforms. traditional jackboots and new combat boots (in brown and black
leather), black, brown, and tan leather  gear, tan  webbing,  helmets in
a wide	variety of  colors, camo covers, camo nets.

snow  cam ws either  factory made or  made from liberated sheets.

not quite the image that HOLLYWEIRD shows us of the HEER rank and file!