TACTICAL TUESDAY: Small Party Tactics WW2

M the Pepper Broadcasting Network. We have to hit the reset button to create a true culture preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all. The way up. Welcome to the gun Metal Armory. Here's your host, Dan Dye. What's up. Everybody's name from the gun Metal Armory. Uh, just coming to you guys to do a podcast here. Uh. That was a craple of crazy stuff going on in the news today and a whole bunch of crazy stuff going on in the world. I'm not really going to comment on any of it for right now. I'm just going to stick to the podcast and stick to the World War Two tactics, spy tactics, and the tactics of groups that operated behind enemy lines. So, without further ado, we're going to get into that. Last time we left off on we were talking about minor tactics and field craft or field work, depending on how you want to look at it. We talked about very various different types of warfeather conducted behind enemy lines, you know, bipartisans or by you know, spies, irregular soldiers, you know, resistance cells, things like that. So when I left off last time I ended it, we were talking about formations, the various different types of formations that could be used by any kind of a resistance cell or spire, rimization or whatever it is behind the enemy lines during World War Two. Now I want to go into the other parts of it. Okay. So they in the manuals that I have, they talk a lot about various tactics, weaponry, and things of that nature. Something that they don't talk a lot about is navigation. So I find that a little bit strange, but not like really really really strange, and just slightly strange, if that makes any sense to you. The reason I find it slightly strange is because you're bound to get spies that are dropped behind enemy lines that don't know the area very well. However, resistance cells that are from the area should know the area well enough to where they would be able to help the spy get around. Okay, So that's something to consider. But I did want to touch on the fact that, you know, direction finding, map reading, things like that, they're not covered anywhere near enough in these old manuals, So that's something to consider when you're reading that stuff. Okay. But they do talk about the partisan force will generally be very very familiar with the country or the area that they're actually operating in, so the use of maps and compasses you know, generally will not be necessary for them. But they talk about the time coming when the group may be forced to you know, fight and and you know, operate an unfamiliar ground or unfamiliar territory that is still within their country, So that needs to be considered. And everyone that is on that, you know, in that resistance group, they need to be familiar with how to find their way around and how to use a map and a compass and all of those things. So that's something that needs to be kept in mind. The other thing, the partisan fighters also need to be adept in the handling of maps and compasses in the effect that they need to bear in mind that when they're making their observations, you know, reading their map, reading their compass and and so forth, they need to do it from behind cover. Otherwise they're going to basically give themselves away. They're going to show everybody that they're there, So that all comes into play. The next part of the next part of the manuals that they talk about is going to be weaponry. The weaponry that these partisan groups will generally use and what they will be given. So they have sections in here on handguns, grenades, submachine guns, things of that nature from back in World War Two. The partisan fighter, they're gonna need to have complete confidence in any weapon that they're armed with. Similar to today's military or similar to today's special forces, they need to have confidence in any weapon that they use. So imagine back during this time when these people were operating behind enemy lines. You know, they wouldn't know what kind of gun they were going to get. Even though Great Britain was dropping a whole bunch of guns and weapons and AMMO explosives, so on and so forth, they never knew what kind of gun they were gonna get. The other thing to keep in mind was if you were a partisan and you were caught by, you know, a Nazi, and you happen to have a nineteen on you, well, yeah, they're gonna see that it's an American gun and they're immediately going to think you're a spy. But you know, if you're I don't know, let's say you're in France and you're caught with a French handgun or something like that, well, you know, heck, you might be able to talk your way out of it. You might not, but you see what I'm getting at. Things that come from outside the country are going to be a lot harder to explain than something that comes from inside the country. So that, and again going back to the original point, the partisan fight or anyone, anyone who operates behind enemy lines needs to be familiar with as many weapons systems as possible. I cannot stress this enough. As a gunsmith, I used to have a friend that not that that may have been worded wrong. I used to have a friend. No. What what I was getting at is there was a gentleman that I used to be familiar with that I you know, I used to talk to occasionally, and his whole gig was, sorry, his whole gig was he had a lot of guns. And this guy, aside from his own collection, he would buy guns, shoot them, take them apart, clean them, put them back together, and then sell them. And I once asked him, you know, why do you continue to do this? Why do you continue to you know, buy guns, shoot him, take him apart, you know, put them back together, you know, clean him, taking aim part, putting them back together. Whatever, you know, Like, why do you go through that entire thing? Only to just resell it. And he said, and I'm sure he's probably still doing this. Maybe he's listening to the podcast Rob. Anyways, you know who you are, bro, Rob, if you're listening to this podcast, I'd love to know if you're still doing this. But anyways, he told me that the reason he continued to do this was so he would have as many weapons platforms under his belt as possible. He would have experience with as many as he possibly could. He wanted to get every gun in his hand that he could. He wanted to take it apart, see how it worked, put it back together, and move on to the next one as many as possible. So in a way, he was kind of operating like a partisan fighter or a spy that would have to operate behind himy lines. He doesn't know what he's going to be given wherever he is, and he needs to be able to use it. He also needs to know how it works on the inside. He needs to know if something breaks, what broke, and what's most likely to break. All of these things come into play, and I think what he was doing was quite genius, to be honest. So again, the partisan fighter needs to have complete confidence in what ever weapon they're armed with, they have to regard it as a weapon which, if necessary, can be used to force their way to a target to accomplish their task, or if need be, they can destroy an enemy who actually attempts to prevent them from withdrawing from the attack that they just finished. Right, So, think about the heavy water plant that was taken out by Norwegian commandos in World War Two. You know they had to withdraw from that attack. You know, once they had taken out that heavy water plant, and I think it was in Norway, somewhere in there, we'll say, had taken that out, they had to get out of there, they had to withdraw. So obviously they needed to be able to defend themselves while they were withdrawing. Makes sense. It says should their weapon become useless, they must be ready and able to use their hands or any other weapon that may be made available. They need to learn to take care of their weapons. They need to learn to check up before they start, to ensure that the weapon is working and that they have sufficient ammunition. This ammunition must be carried so that it is readily available as well. All of this stuff seems like common sense, but to someone who's never engaged in any kind of warfare. This is all new, right, You would think, well, yeah, of course you got to carry the animustay's really available. That makes a duh, right, Well, you know nowadays we call those readily available things mags. We call those magazines. Okay. So next they in these manuals they go into explosives. Now, admittedly I don't know anything about explosives. Man, I don't know, Jack Crab, but I'll be happy to read you guys what they talk about in these manuals with respect to that from the World War II period, keeping in mind that the explosives they had back then were much more rudimentary than they are now, or rudimentary, I don't know whatever. So it says in the book just reading a book, it says, if explosives are carried, the maxim quote, the demolition must not fail, will be borne in the mind the whole time. Therefore, all the charges and the other stores must be prepared very carefully and completely before setting out. Full allowance must be made for the possibility of casualties, i e. A complete duplicate set of demo charges should be carried, and every single man in the party should be equipped to do some damage on his own if plans go awry. While while at the perier of military school, students will carry out a number of day and night schemes and will have practice in the gleaning night, and will have practice in planning small operations operating during the day and the night. It will not be possible to achieve complete realism in the targets or the military background, such as would be the case in the field. Every attempt will be made, however, to make schemes realistic. Students will only get the maximum benefit from the schemes that they use their imagination. They must never do anything in a scheme which they would not do in the field. Okay, so what they're emphasizing there is extreme realism in their training. They want these guys to have such realistic training that it's almost indistinguishable from the real deal. And of course that makes a lot of sense. You know, think about you know the Seal Team, you know, Seal Team six, when they went into uh Pakistan and did that thing, right, you know, not that thing, but the other thing. When they went into Pakistan did that thing. They built a mock complex of the exact same house. So they knew it backwards and forwards. Now, how did they know what the inside of the house look like? Who knows? Probably the lidar something like that. Freaking scary, but you know whatever anyways, or maybe they captured a curry or a pizza guy. Fuck, I don't know whatever. So yeah, you look at situations like that, and you look at how it was the and the level to which it is able to be done. Now, realistic training is absolutely paramount, even back then and even now. So let's talk a little bit. I have a little ways left to go here, I only have maybe another ten minutes or so, but let's talk a little bit about how small rating parties work. Small parties that raid for supplies and for other things. Okay, they have lectures inside of the manuals talking basically about the the action of a small body of men basically attacking something, or tactical action of some sort by a small group of men. It may be a guarded objective, it may be a just a basic you know, gas station or whatever. You never know what it's going to be. But small rating parties are generally going to involve some kind of explosives or incendiaries. So it's not really like this part of the chat, this part of the books. You know, it's not really intended to cover how one person will operate or just a small party like two people, three people. It's not intended to cover that. It's intended to cover a much larger behind an enemy linees force. Okay, so if you want, well, anyways, we can just move on to this. Go I go through this for a little bit, and then next week, you know, we can go a little deeper into some of the other stuff too. Okay, So the target for a rate of that type, it has to be any type of worthwhile objective which may be destroyed by demolition or by fire rating parties. Of course, they like to attack objectives that are basically they're more convenient to destroy without the use of something very very loud like explosives. Right, those are very very loud. So back in World War Two, you know they might use that, but heck, they might wait until a bomber plane was overhead and it would drown out the sound, you know, or some other really massive sound, and would wait for that, and then that's when they would set off their explosives. You know, that's exactly what Oh gosh, I can't think of the name. But in general, the tactics of the rating party will remain the same that the composition of the party and individual action will naturally, of course differ. The the basic party is going to be about ten men. That's a basic party. These kind of techniques are going to be useful for more than ten men, but this that's kind of just the accepted numbers ten men. Okay, So there are certain factors that need to be overcome to achieve success in that kind of that kind of a direct action. Okay, There are going to be enemies that are going to be guarding the objective. Of course we know this. If you ever played Sniper Elite, you know this. And of course the objective itself, which you know, when you break it down, you've got the guards and you've got the loot, if you will, The loot could be anything, you know, So you get rid of the guards and then you go in for the loot. You know, going into the loot might be you know. Basically, I'm just using a metaphor for what we're talking about. Okay, the object itself, the object itself is going to be the thing that you might call the loot, right, So I'm not sure how to how to go over that part. So the next thing to consider. We're going to talk about the various positions in the party like leader, uh century, second in command, so on and so forth. We're gonna talk about all that. But a big thing that a lot of people don't consider when they're putting together some kind of rating party like this, and even back then they didn't think about this is how the actual rating party itself needs to get to the objective without harm. They need to get there safe. A lot of people don't think about that, but it's very very true, and they need to basically operate in quiet until the operation is over. Then after the operation's over, they need to be able to withdraw from the objective in a safe manner, a safe, quiet manner. So I think that's something that's very important. I'm sure that you probably do too. So next thing, Yeah, So logistically the competition of the party is going to be a leader a century or a century party. Right. That will be the small force whose job it is to deal with the enemy at the objective. That's the Century Party. That's the small group within the group. Okay, So after that is going to be one guy that is demolition or assault, or it could be a party of guys that is demolition or assault. Those guys are very important as well. Yeah you too, huh. Right. So you've got the demolition party or assault party, you've got the Century Party, You've got the leader, and then you've got the covering party. Okay, so think about this. If it's a ten man team, you got the leader that's one of ten, then you've got nine men, the Century party three men, the demolition or assault party three men, then the covering party three men. Does that make sense to everybody? I hope so, because I'm not going to explain it. Okay, So let's talk about the various roles real quick. Okay. The leader, just like in any operation, there's got to be a leader, Okay. It's basically it's his job to see that the men that are going to do these various jobs and these various parties are suitable for the job that they are going to be performing. You know, like the Century job or the demo job, or you know, so on and so forth, the covering party, so on and so forth. So he needs to make sure that those guys can do that job. And do it. Damn well. The Century Party, of course, is going to be that small, small team whose job it is to deal with the enemy when you get to the objective. The other people are not constrained on that. The demolitions guys aren't constrained on that. The Century Party is who's going to concentrate on taking out any of the guards around that base or that objective. That is what they call the Century Party of course, right, so sorry, Since the centuries are the only people who will in all cases have to be dealt with in some way, although in a great many cases the plan will be to avoid the enemy altogether, the Century Party must be prepared to kill in case of emergency. Ideally, just like anything, you want to go non lethal. You don't want to leave a bunch of bodies later on because those can get discovered. Right, So, during World War Two that was their thinking is go non lethal whenever you can. Not only that, but back then, those piece of shit Nazis had a very strict retaliation policy. If you will, you hurt one of them, you kill one of them, well they're going to probably kill ten percent of you, you know, which is or more or more? Yeah, definitely or more right, So plan to avoid them if you can, or you know, if you have a way to go non lethal, go non lethal. You know, you never know, you never know. Now, I don't think. I don't think back then they had tranquilizer guns, you know, if heavy barbituates. But I don't know, maybe they use something like that. Okay, Then you have the demolition party, assault party, whatever you want to call them. These are the guys that do lots of damage. These are the ones that it's their job to basically destroy everything. You know. So let's say it's a bridge or some shit. They're the ones that are going to go in there and take out that bridge, Okay, after the Century Party has done its job and so on. Okay, Uh, they send the assault party of demolition party. Rather, they need to be left alone while they're setting out the demolition charges. They need to be left alone. And the covering party is the party that is going to cover them so they can be left alone to do their job, to do their demolition. The covering party is the one that is going to cover the Century Party and the demolition party. Okay, they are going to make sure that neither party is surprised by the enemy, or in some cases they may be tasked with delaying the enemy or engaging the surprised enemy. Altogether, all of these are absolutely essential to how the party or the group is composed. They may vary in strength number, you know, depending on how many guys there are that maybe ten, maybe twelve, and maybe twenty. You know, twenty is getting a little big, but you know, so on and so forth. There is a difference. Okay, So an estimate of exactly how how many men are required for any piece of work must always be formed by the leader. So the other thing that you need to look at, too, is exactly how each of these groups will perform at a not just a ten thousand foot level over top, right, like an overview, but you need a close up view of each of these people in each of these parties and how they're going to operate as well. Okay, we will talk about that next time. We will talk about the way that you're going to have action at the starting point movement toward the objective, the reconnaissance part. You know, we're going to talk about that and exactly how all that stuff is done or was done back in the day. Okay, all right, guys, I'm sorry I don't have more time, but as usual, I'm working my ass off here, so I hope you guys all have a wonderful day. Take care of yourselves and watch your backs. The world's getting crazier and crazier out there, and if you haven't started stock piling food and water yet, you might want to do that. Okay, all right, I will talk to you guys later. Have a great day, take care, and we'll see you next time as we go deeper inside the gun Metal Armory. Good night, everybody. Thank you for joining us. We'll see you next time on the gun Metal Armory. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self reliance and independence. 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