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ARK |
Armoured Ramp Carrier |
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AVRE |
Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers |
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Bangalore |
Explosive charge |
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BARV |
Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle |
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Buffalo |
Amphibious tracked carrier |
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Carrot |
Small explosive charge |
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Centaur |
Armoured bulldozer |
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Chindits |
British Army units in Burma |
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Crab |
Sherman tank with mine-clearing flail |
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Crocodile |
Churchill tank with flame thrower |
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DUKW |
Armoured amphibious carrier |
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Duplex Drive |
Propelling system for ‘swimming’ tanks |
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Eisenbahn Batterie |
Railway gun battery |
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Eiserne Hemmkurven |
Curved anti-tank obstacle |
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Fascine |
Tank-mounted bridging device |
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Festung |
Fortress |
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Festungspionier Korps |
Fortress engineering corps |
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Flail |
Tank-mounted mine-clearing chains |
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Flying Dustbin |
Projectile filled with high explosive |
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Gastarbeitnehmer |
Guest employee – Slave labour |
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Hafenkommandant |
Port Commander |
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Kampfgruppen |
Hastily formed battle groups |
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Kangaroo |
Personnel carrier converted from a tracked vehicle |
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Kriegsmarine |
German Navy |
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Luftwaffe |
German Air Force |
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Landungsboot |
Landing craft |
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Sprengfallen Artilleriegranaten |
Booby-trapped artillery shells |
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Oberkommando des Heeres |
German Army High Command |
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Offene Bettung (OB) |
Open gun pit |
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Ost Bataillone |
East Battalions – ex-Soviet POWs |
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Panzerstellung |
Concrete-ringed fixed tank turret position |
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Penny Packets |
Small numbers |
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Petard |
Technical name for the Flying Dustbin |
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Pionier Landungsboot |
Shallow keel landing craft as used by engineers |
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Regelbau |
Standard construction |
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Reichsarbeitsdienstmänner |
Conscripted civilian workers |
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Ringstände |
Tobruk or ring-stand open gun-pit |
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Sockellafetten |
Gun pedestal mount |
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Sonderkonstruktion |
Special construction |
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Turm |
Tower or turret |
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Verstärkt feldmässig (Vf) |
Reinforced open gun emplacement |
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Wehrmacht |
German armed forces |