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German Report Series: Night Combat

German Report Series: Night Combat

Anon

Paperback

Series: German Report

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Military History

ISBN10: 1783314087
ISBN13: 9781783314089
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Published: May 23 2018
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The reader of a pre-war German Army operation manual, upon reaching to the chapter heading Night Combat, found that the subject was covered very succinctly and somewhat superficially. The content failed to reveal the tremendous importance that night combat and night movements were to assume in modern warfare. During two world wars, night and other periods of poor visibility, such as fog and snowstorms or rainstorms, gradually came to be considered the ideal time for action. Interference from the air reduces fighting and paralysed movements in daylight hours, with the result that the space between the front and the most remote corner of the rear areas was often empty and deserted. During the hours of darkness combat and movements resumed with new intensity. After a while, the German soldier considered this mole like existence as normal, but the conclusion that should have been drawn from this undeniable fact was that the setting up training schedules was completely inadequate. In Russia more and more action occurred at night. Once this was widely recognised during the later years of war, much of the individual unit training took time during darkness and other periods of poor visibility.

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