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Old 03-06-2008, 01:39 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CROONAERT View Post
Try searching with it's correct (German) spelling ("Bataillon" instead of "Battalion" , "Pionier" instead of "Pioneer" for example) and (in the case of German units) drop the initials (such as "Geb.", "Aufk." ,"Nachr.", etc), replacing them with the complete words ("Gebirgs", "Aufklarungs", "Nachrichten", etc)...
Now that's good advice.
In a similar vein, I found a while back that using 'танках' when looking for stuff on Russian tanks turns up many more interesting pages. Google translator coming in handy for the results.

Maybe we do need a 'how to use google' thread?
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