Unit Descriptions: Air, Naval, Land

[Extraneous]

ORIGINAL: michaelbaldur

is it just me or is this a hurried work.

isn´t this the perfect place to write about the million (more or less) Russian 76,2 mm infantry guns

Soviet 85 mm divisional gun D-44

Weight D-44: 1,725 kg
(3,803 lbs)
SD-44: 2,250 kg
(4,960 lbs) Length 8.34 metres (27 ft 4 in) Barrel length 55 calibers Width 1.78 metres (5 ft 10 in) Height 1.42 metres (4 ft 8 in) Crew 8

Designed 1943-1944 Manufacturer Uralmash Produced 1945-1953 Number built 10,800 Variants D-44N
SD-44
Chinese Type 56

[HansHafen]

Please hurry more.

[Red Prince]

ORIGINAL: HansHafen

Please hurry more.

Is there anything in particular you want to see? I generally post a picture of a unit within a day or two of getting the write-up from the author. I haven't been as good about doing that with the Naval units, because Rob sends them to me pre-packaged so to speak. When he chooses a few more that he would like to see in 'counter' format, I'll get them up in this thread (probably sometime this week).

In the meantime, you might scan the 70 pages of this thread [X(] to see some of the others. If there are any specific units you are interested in, I'll try to post them as time permits. I've never gone through all 70+ pages, so I don't know for certain if a unit is up or not.

-Aaron

[Red Prince]

Here is the latest from Rob. Once again, I haven't proofread this yet, and I also had to reduce the image quality somewhat to get it under 500 kb. I tried re-arranging this so that it was in 2 columns, side by side, but that increased the original file size from 1.4 to 1.7 MB. That means a much more significant degradation in quality, so I left it as is:

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Red Prince

Here is the latest from Rob. Once again, I haven't proofread this yet, and I also had to reduce the image quality somewhat to get it under 500 kb. I tried re-arranging this so that it was in 2 columns, side by side, but that increased the original file size from 1.4 to 1.7 MB. That means a much more significant degradation in quality, so I left it as is:

Warspite1

Thanks Aaron, I have made a few changes and these will be incorporated in the update to the naval master list when I send this in the next day or so - biggest faux pas was referring to the ships of TF8 as being in TF11.......[:(]

[HansHafen]

No, it was just a little joke, the write ups are pretty long as is and someone was giving you a poke for "hurried" work. These write ups aren't slowing the game down, so it doesn't matter.

[Red Prince]

Two more write-ups from the fabulous typing finger of Jimm Reed:
(Once again, I have not yet proof-read these files -- which I'm going to have to do, since I see the word "centre" in this, and I'm trying to keep the Land Units to standard American English [:)])

[Red Prince]

And also:

[Extraneous]

ORIGINAL: Red Prince

Two more write-ups from the fabulous typing finger of Jimm Reed:
(Once again, I have not yet proof-read these files -- which I'm going to have to do, since I see the word "centre" in this, and I'm trying to keep the Land Units to standard American English [:)])

"Centre" is spelled correctly. They are doing the writeups in the Queens english not American english.

[Red Prince]

ORIGINAL: Extraneous

ORIGINAL: Red Prince

Two more write-ups from the fabulous typing finger of Jimm Reed:
(Once again, I have not yet proof-read these files -- which I'm going to have to do, since I see the word "centre" in this, and I'm trying to keep the Land Units to standard American English [:)])

"Centre" is spelled correctly. They are doing the writeups in the Queens english not American english.

Sorry to disagree, but "they" are not. [:)] The naval unit write-ups are standardised to the Queens English. The land unit write-ups, however, are being standardized to American English.

The reason is very straightforward: Rob Jenkins has been typing his fingers to the bone, working on the Naval Units, and being a Brit, he is doing it his way. I have close to two-dozen different authors for the Land Units, which I have been asked to collect from them. I originally offered to proofread any unit write-ups, and I'll probably be doing most of them. Being a Yank, I made the arbitrary decision that the Land Unit write-ups would be done in American -- because it makes my job easier.

[Extraneous]

ORIGINAL: Red Prince
Sorry to disagree, but "they" are not. [:)] The naval unit write-ups are standardised to the Queens English. The land unit write-ups, however, are being standardized to American English.

The reason is very straightforward: Rob Jenkins has been typing his fingers to the bone, working on the Naval Units, and being a Brit, he is doing it his way. I have close to two-dozen different authors for the Land Units, which I have been asked to collect from them. I originally offered to proofread any unit write-ups, and I'll probably be doing most of them. Being a Yank, I made the arbitrary decision that the Land Unit write-ups would be done in American -- because it makes my job easier.

Interesting, I didn't know that land units were going to be in American english.

[Gendarme]

On the Milan and Napoli Militia writeups, first paragraph, Carabineri is incorrectly spelled. Only one "r" at the end. "Carabinieri", not "Carabinierri".

Anthony DeChristopher

[Extraneous]

LA FORZA DELL'ESERCITO IL 10 GIUGNO 1940 (THE FORCE OF THE ARMY June 10 1940)

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[:)] My translation [:)]

In Metropolitan Italy the Territorial Army (D'Armata Territoriale) covered 27 Military Zones using 15 Defense Commands (Corpo d'Armata Territoriale). These were developed from Divisional Depots, GAF (Guardia alla Frontiera) units, Black Shirt Centuries (Companies), Cohorts (Battalions), and Legions (Divisions) dedicated to defend controlled areas.

MILMART - Milizia Marittima or Milizia Artiglieria Marittima (Navy Militia (Black Shirt) Coastal Defense)
DICAT - Difesa Antiaerea or Difesa Contraerea Territoriale (Militia (Black Shirt) Antiaircraft)

[Centuur]

It is nice to see that the old Roman terms are still in use in the Italian Military.

[Jimm]

ORIGINAL: Gendarme

On the Milan and Napoli Militia writeups, first paragraph, Carabineri is incorrectly spelled. Only one "r" at the end. "Carabinieri", not "Carabinierri".

Anthony DeChristopher

Anthony- thanks for the spot.

[Jimm]

ORIGINAL: Centuur

It is nice to see that the old Roman terms are still in use in the Italian Military.

well... not really! The Blackshirts were Fascist paramilitaries- the Fascist ideology had an idealised view of itself as the new Roman Empire and hence they identified with their terms. The term Fascist after all comes from the Fasces, the symbol of authority of Roman Lictors (an Axe with a haft of bundled rods).

These terms were not used after the end of the war and the fall of the fascists- to my knowledge.

[Red Prince]

ORIGINAL: Gendarme

On the Milan and Napoli Militia writeups, first paragraph, Carabineri is incorrectly spelled. Only one "r" at the end. "Carabinieri", not "Carabinierri".

Anthony DeChristopher

Took me a few days, but I finally got around to correcting this in the master file. As Jimm said, nice catch.

-Aaron

[Red Prince]

Yet another addition from Jimm here for the Italian counters. He tells me he is working on even more of them, and he's doing a hell of a job, too. Thanks, Jimm!

More naval units from Rob are on the way. I have one now that I'm trying to get down to size, so it might be a few more days. But it's on the wasy (HMS Coventry).

[Extraneous]

T similarly?

[Red Prince]

ORIGINAL: Extraneous

T similarly?

Oops. I must have missed a period. Thanks.
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Edit: .T is a formating indicator in the unit master file.