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Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Duedel on January 16, 2003, 03:11:47 PM

Click here. Great site about armored vehicles. (http://users.swing.be/tanks/index.htm)

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: brady on January 16, 2003, 03:16:09 PM

TY sir.:)

Title: Great Info Site
Post by: TWOLF on January 16, 2003, 03:24:51 PM

I ran into this site the week before last looking for doc. on American troops using German tank during WW2.  Someone asked about this in another thread.  I still haven't found documentation on it.  But as I said in that thread I know it happened but it was Highly discouraged. Vist the memorials in Europe.  There is one in Bastone that tells a story about an American tank ace capturing a panther and using it until he could get his M4A4e8 out of a field.  He never got his own tank out of the field by the way.  It was hit and destroyed by several panzerfaust rounds.  He used the panther until he ran out of ammunition and then abondoned it.  I don't remember the guy's name and I have not been able to find anything on the net about it to include the War memorial's site.

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Rasker on January 17, 2003, 01:20:45 AM

Panzer Song Link for all Panzer Lovers :)
here is the "Panzerlied" sound track as sung in the 1966 movie "Battle of the Bulge". Don't leave the vehicle hanger without it!  IMO this is one of the greatest pieces of military music ever

http://www.pzg.biz/Music/panzerlied%20bulge.mp3

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Duedel on January 17, 2003, 03:31:09 AM

Uhmmm even though im german i hardly can understand what these guys are singing.

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Rasker on January 18, 2003, 11:56:58 AM

I dont think they recruited native German speakers to play the tank commanders :)

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: devious on January 20, 2003, 08:41:56 AM

Lyrics:

Ob's stürmt oder schneit, ob die Sonne uns lacht
Ob der Tag glühend heiss oder eiskalt die Nacht
Bestaubt sind die Gesichter, doch froh ist unser Sinn
Es braust unser Panzer im Sturmwind dahin

don't remember the rest ATM...

Bad english translation:

Wether it's storming or the sun shines
Wether the day's glowing hot or the night cold like ice
The faces are covered in dust, but happy is our heart
Our Tank races through the stormwind

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Tracer-15 on January 20, 2003, 06:24:36 PM

German Lyrics....its good to have a mp3 of the song to sing along with

Ob's sturmt oder schneit,
Ob die sonne uns lacht,
der tag gluhend heiss
Oder eiskalt die nacht,
Bestaubt sind die gesichter
Doch froh ist unseer sinn,
Ja unser sinn
Es braust unser Panzer,
Im sturmwind dahin.

Wenn vor uns ein feindlicher,
Panzer erscheint,
Wird vollgas gegeben,
Und ran an den Fiend!
Was gilt denn unser leben
Fur unsres Reiches heer,
Ja Reiches heer?
Fur Duetschland zu sterben
Ist uns hochste ehr.

Und lasst uns im stich
Einst das treulose gluck
Und kehren wir nacht mehr
Zur heimat zuruck
Trifft uns die todeskugel
Ruft uns das Schicksal ad
Ja schicksal ab
Dann ist unser Panzer
Ein ehernes grab

Mit donnernden motoren
So schnell wie der blitz
Dem fiende entgegen
Im Panzer geschutzt
Voraus den kameraden
Im Kampf ganz allein
Steh'n wir allein
So stossen wir tief
In due feindlichen reihn

Mit sperren und tanks
Halt der gegner uns auf
Und fahren nicht drauf
Und droh'n vor uns

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Tracer-15 on January 20, 2003, 06:26:08 PM

With that same mp3 in hand....maybe you dont want to sing in german so....

The English Translation

If there's a storm or it snows
Or the sun smiles on us
The day is burning hot
Or the night icy cold
Dusty are the faces
But joyful is our mind
Joyful our mind;
Our tank roars ahead
Within the stormwind

When a hostile tank
appears ahead of us
Full throttle is given
And we close with the foe!
It's not our life we value
For the army of our realm
Army of our realm
For Germany to die
Is honor most high

And if we are abandoned
By that unfaithful luck
And if we don't return
To our homeland again
If a bullet strikes us down
If our fate calls on us
Yes calls on us
Then our tank will give us
A metal grave

With thundering engines
Fast as a lightining bolt
The enemy engaging
Within our armour plates
Ahead of our comrades
In the battle all alone
We stand alone
That's how we strike deep
Into the enemy's ranks

With obstacles and tanks
The foe blocks our path
We laugh about it
And simply pass them by
And if ahead guns threaten
Hidden in the yellow sand
In the yellow sand
We seek out our way
That no one else found

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Jester on January 21, 2003, 07:39:48 AM

Kinda hard to Mombo to.   :D

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: gofaster on January 21, 2003, 08:41:44 AM

Guess what song will be playing when I boot up my computer at work. :cool:

Doh! Its MP3.  Any way to convert it to .wav?

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: GRUNHERZ on January 21, 2003, 08:56:29 AM

Panzerlied is great!

Some of my favorites are also:

Panzer Rollen In Afrika Vor

Unser Rommel

U-Boot Lied


Good old guilt inducing ww2 german songs..  ;)

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: gofaster on January 21, 2003, 10:06:50 AM

I found it in .wav file format:

http://www.angelfire.com/ok/panzerkampfwagon/pzsong.wav

Now you can save it as your Panzer engine start-up sound. :P

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Tracer-15 on January 21, 2003, 02:36:46 PM

i already had one as my panzer start sound lol

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Rasker on January 22, 2003, 12:42:50 AM

If you recall the great 1969 movie "Battle of Britain", at the beginning, after Dunkirk, when Kesselring is driving around LW bases reviewing the planes and crews, a great (LW?) march is playing.  I seem recall somewhere that the march is named "Aces High" [like a certain game :)], but havent been able to find that particular music anywhere on the 'net  Can anyone tell me if the march is correctly named and if/where I can find it to download?

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Karnak on January 22, 2003, 01:20:26 AM

I have a number of WWII German songs in MP3 format, Panzer Lied among them.

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: gofaster on January 22, 2003, 08:33:12 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Rasker
If you recall the great 1969 movie "Battle of Britain", at the beginning, after Dunkirk, when Kesselring is driving around LW bases reviewing the planes and crews, a great (LW?) march is playing.  I seem recall somewhere that the march is named "Aces High" [like a certain game :)], but havent been able to find that particular music anywhere on the 'net  Can anyone tell me if the march is correctly named and if/where I can find it to download?

From IMDB.Com comes this clue:

Original Music by
Ron Goodwin    
William Walton   (cue "Battle In the Air")  

I did a search on "Battle In The Air" with a cross-reference to the composers and found this:

http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2000/jan00/battle.htm

with this interesting blurb in the description:

"When it comes to the music depicting the Luftwaffe, Goodwin wins hands down with a splendidly idiomatic Teutonic march 'Aces High' replete with oompah brass and glockenspiel."

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Rasker on January 22, 2003, 11:13:19 AM

here are several 30 second segments from "Aces High" and other scores in the film;  playing the "Battle of Britain" theme you can almost hear the alarm bell ringing and the Merlin engines roaring to life

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/eras/B00000IXSK001001/ref=pd_sxp_a/202-1120724-9757409

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: gofaster on January 22, 2003, 12:39:12 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Rasker
here are several 30 second segments from "Aces High" and other scores in the film;  playing the "Battle of Britain" theme you can almost hear the alarm bell ringing and the Merlin engines roaring to life

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/eras/B00000IXSK001001/ref=pd_sxp_a/202-1120724-9757409

Cool!  Now to figure out how to convert that RealAudio to .wav format... any ideas anybody?

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Rkmaw on January 24, 2003, 11:41:29 AM

convert it? I cant even save it!  Dunno if it because the server will only stream it to discourage copying, or because I only have the free real Audio player

Title: For all panzer lovers
Post by: Rasker on January 27, 2003, 10:27:46 PM

heres a utility that purports to be able to convert mp3's to wavs

http://www.thomas-ewert.de/acm.zip