European Front is a WW2 campaing in DYOM made for GTA:SA about the importants battle on WW2, starting with Normandy theather and more later the Eastern Front, made it with historical accurate research, good modelling, sounds, skins, etc..

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GregorHecker - - 29 comments

*Update*

Looking at the records in more detail, the Panzerfuhrer (Tank leader) of that tank should actually be a Stugfuhrer (Assault Cannon Leader) because these tanks were used in the Battle of Normandy as reserve artillery tanks, not as combat tanks, their function was similar to a Stug from the beginning of the war

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The battle of Normandy was one of the toughest in the war, crossing a hedge meant Russian roulette, and many soldiers, especially Americans, paid the consequences, the terrain especially favored the German defenders and they almost always found each other face to face. , sometimes with more superior forces than others

In this case we can see a Panzer Fuhrer from a Beautepanzer 'Renault R35' and a dead American paratrooper.

* The Germans at the end of the war captured many French Renault R35s after the fall of France, and they were used on the Eastern Front and in the Panzerwaffe training schools.
Many of these tanks were cut in half and placed on the Atlantic Wall and many were used at the beginning of the Battle of Normandy, specifically in La Fiere, Carentan, etc...

* The American paratroopers hanging from trees were not a fantasy, many during the night of D-Day fell into enemy areas beyond their meeting point and fell precisely on trees, hanging them on the spot, many already dead paratroopers remained for days and even months hanging from trees and most of them were shot in many parts of the body and many mutilated as well.