The more you know
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When I was in cadets, we used these wooden targets with WW2-era German soldiers painted on them to look like they were charging at you; they were for speed training, as someone would hold it up for only three seconds while you tried to shoot it (been on both sides of that.)
We called these "Jumping Jerries".
... huh, not one photograph of this thing out there on the web. Must have stopped using them years ago, I guess.
This guy, maybe?
Yeah, that's him! Though ours had more of a blue colour scheme going on, iirc.
It's crazy seeing history re-written, isn't it? It feels like being in an alternate universe, but all the time.