Dec 20: Everything that shoots Is being used: employment of captured MGs The Captured Machine Gun ManualCaptured machine guns became so important to the German war effort that these weapons, where…
Halen 24 - Fourth Charge Immediately after 4th Squadron, 1st Squadron attacked. They went in the same direction, but stayed south of the creek and came up from the IJzerbeek Bridge…
Halen 23 - Third Charge – 3 1400 Hours. The leading elements of the Belgian 4th Mixed Bde arrived on the eastern edge of the Loksbergen Wood. The commander of the…
Halen 21 - Third Charge - 1Belgian 2nd Squadron/5 Lancers was repositioned between 3rd and 1st Squadrons/4 Lancers. It had arrived in position just in time to beat off the…
Halen 20 - Second Charge -2 The 1st Comp/Cy Bn elements that formed the utmost left flank of the hastily assembled line of defense was established by both Van Overstraeten and…
Halen 19 - Second Charge -1Returning to the point where we had left Velpen unoccupied by the Guides, Van Overstraeten was convinced that this hamlet was indeed defended, because Capt.-Commandant…
Halen 18 – Cyclists Try to Reposition 1200 Hours. Lt. Van Overstraeten stated, "When 1st Battery opened fire from the Mettenberg" around noon, he saw Cyclists coming from the station, moving…
Dec 13: Forgotten machine-guns II: Louis Schmeisser and the Dreyse-MG Probably even before 1907, thus before the takeover by Rheinmetall, Louis Schmeisser moved as chief designer to the Dreyse-Werke in Sömmerda,…
Halen 17 - First Charge-2 Whatever their intention, the cavalry failed to change formation. This may be blamed on both the terrain and the failure of the reconnaissance patrol to give…
Halen 16 - First Charge-1 The German Cavalry nemesis would be the artillery located on both Bokkenberg and Mettenberg Hills—Artillerie à Cheval. This was the magnet. With visions of the Light…