German translation please

[zemsi]

Originally Posted by wim sikkelbein

this is the best i could come up with:

Engineers in attack

During fall and winter and also now still the further expansion of our troops in great numbers is continuing. All the services will stay in the highest battle strength. Our picture was taken at an attack/exercise???? of our engineers. The tube-load (bangalore) is pushed into the wire obstacle and when it has exploded, the way will be free.

... yeah, the translation sounds correct. However the image was taken at an attack training or attack exercise. So it's kind of "fake".

[sapper740]

Compliments of Lone Sentry.com:


U.S. War Department Technical Manual, TM-E 30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces


o. BANGALORE TORPEDO (Gestreckte Ladung). This torpedo is made up of units of 16-gauge steel pipe lengths, with a sleeve welded to one end to form a socket for the adjoining unit. Units are packed with blasting gelatine or other suitable explosives. Detonating fuzes run the lengths of the tubes. The torpedo is initiated at one end by two independent caps, using a cap igniter set for one and a length of safety fuze and match for the other. Other sections carry a cap fitted to the end of the tube. When assembling sections, the free end of the fuze at the socket end of one section is tied to the cap at the spigot end of the next section.



CHIMO! Derek.