Friday 18 November 2022

Shopping List

 "Attachment to instructions of department 1b, 8th Infantry Division, June 20th, 1941

List of military equipment that must be captured for use. Items marked with a + are especially important.

Guns and equipment:

  • 7.62 mm pistols
  • 7.62 mm rifles (three line)
  • +automatic rifles
  • Maxim machine guns
  • 51 mm mortars
  • +45 mm guns model 1936
  • 37 mm Rheinmetall anti-tank guns
  • +any gun larger than 100 mm in caliber (especially cannons)
  • +bridges and pontoons
  • +tanks and barrels
  • drinking water barrels
  • horse cars of all types
  • ammunition trailers
  • communications equipment
  • power sources
  • +shortwave radios of all types
  • +transportable (mobile) and stationary longwave transmitters
  • +cables of all types
  • new telephone equipment
  • tents of all types
  • +encryption equipment
  • light collapsible bridges
  • +measurement equipment
  • submachine guns
  • rifles with optical scopes
  • 7.62 mm light machine guns
  • grenade launchers
  • 84 mm mortars
  • 45 mm guns model 1929
  • guns less than 100 mm in caliber
  • +all AA guns 15 mm or larger in caliber
  • +field kitchens
  • well digging tools
  • optical devices, especially binoculars, binocular telescopes, rangefinders, and gun sights
  • switchboards
  • rapid telegraph machines and telegraph repeater stations
  • +encryption devices
  • pontoons
  • +flamethrowers
Ammunition:

Ammunition for all of the above, in addition all brass casings. Ammunition for weapons marked with a + is especially important. 

Horses and veterinary equipment:
  • +horses (including ponies and pack animals)
  • horse and pack animal harnesses, saddles, bridles, tack
  • +mules
  • horseshoe materials and equipment
  • veterinary supplies
  • bandages of all types
  • oil of turpentine
  • glycerin
  • caffeine
  • fats and oils
  • silver nitrate salt
  • nicotine
Motor vehicles:
  • +armoured cars
  • +halftrack tractors and prime movers
  • +tires
  • +auto repair equipment
  • fueling equipment
  • cargo equipment
  • +cars of all types
  • +fuel and lubricant
  • +spare parts of all types
  • +empty barrels of all types
  • +railway cisterns
Equipment, uniforms, camp equipment, sports equipment, and supplies
  • +rations of all types
  • +boots and any leather equipment
  • +leather (cut, treated, raw)
  • +complete uniforms and underwear
  • equipment (if similar to ours)
  • textiles (wool, cotton fiber)
  • +materials for fixing POW uniforms
  • clothing, blankets, mess tins, underwear, and sporting equipment of all kinds
Sanitary equipment:
  • full medic kits
  • quinine
  • vaseline
  • soap
  • sulfur
  • water boilers
  • disinfection equipment
  • full sets of medicine and bandages
  • oils
  • ointments
  • iodine
  • injection equipment
  • disinfectants
  • hospital tents
Chemical protection and poisons:
  • gas masks
  • oxygen devices
  • +chemical protection for horses of all types
  • +degassing equipment of all types, especially for disinfecting the skin
  • +spraying devices
  • +gas mask filters
  • chemical protection suits
  • long and short lasting poisons of all types
Translated by Technician-Intendant 2nd Class Ilyukhin.
- September 1941"

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