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German Hanomag half track (SdKfz 251) 
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"We only ever saw the Kraut half-tracks after the shooting stopped and we were leap-frogging over their abandoned positions.  They were usually burning on the side of the road with cannon or bazooka holes in their sides. If you ask me, I'd rather walk than hitch a ride in a big target no matter how armored it is."

Corporal Pete Riordan, 101st Airborne.
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"The purpose of the SdKfz 251 was to get us to the fight and not much else. The alte hase* told us, 'better to be spread out along the side of the road than to be bunched up inside a vehicle.'  Good advice for the grunschnabeln."

**Panzer Untergefreiter Willi Steiner, XIX Panzer Corps

*Alte Hase  (old hare) an experienced, veteran foot soldier.**grunschnabeln (greenbeaks) untested raw recruits, equivalent to U.S. army "cherries."
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