By Michèle Phoenix

Shelby's lifestyles isn't glamorous, however it is predictable--and that's the best way she likes it. A survivor of her father's violence, she has spent a life-time making a secure life without dependence. yet her conscientiously controlled international starts to damage while, less than unbelievable situations, she turns into a unmarried mom to four-year-old Shayla. In a drastic try to get away her childhood's effect, Shelby strikes to Germany, yet she quick discovers how in detail associated reminiscence and therapeutic are--and how truthfully she needs to scrutinize her prior so one can aspire to a richer destiny. As she juggles a brand new task, a brand new tradition, a brand new daughter, and the eye of an enterprising guy, Shelby's clean commence turns into a quest for the braveness to be not just a survivor, yet somebody who prevails.

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They combined the characteristics of cannon, howitzer and mortar and could fire either flat or high-angle fire, enabling their use at lower and upper angles. Both types of fire were very precise and exactly on target, and had only meager dispersion in length and breadth. Grenades with impact fuses, made for special purposes such as heavy cover and timed for delayed ignition, were fired. It was possible to overshoot one's own troops by about 200 meters with them. Since the firing positions were generally concealed, indirect firing was used.

With the radio equipment available, the distances involved in actual use could be bridged only by telegraphy. The practical range for vocal communication was too short in any case. Because of the danger of telephone or even telegraph communication THE INFANTRY REGIMENT 55 being overheard, changing lists of code names for units and camouflaged terms for certain situations, such as enemy attacks, had to be employed. Regimental Music The regimental musicians wore the same field-gray uniforms as all other soldiers, but on their shoulders they wore the so-called "swallow's-nest" epaulets with white background and silver braid trim.

But the radio equipment also had great disadvantages. They had a rather heavy weight and were one-way devices, as they could only be used in one direction at a time on the same channel, whether vocally or by Morse code. Their ranges, and thus their potential for being understood in the field, were much more strongly affected by atmospheric conditions. With the radio equipment available, the distances involved in actual use could be bridged only by telegraphy. The practical range for vocal communication was too short in any case.

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