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Originally Posted by Music
AAA gun towers
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Actually, the "AAA gun tower" in that famous P-47 film sequence/frame capture is nothing more than a French water tower. The film was either incorrectly captioned or deliberately mislabeled for propaganda purposes.
Notice that there are no apertures for guns, and no return fire against the attacking plane, plus a roof which would vastly reduce field of fire for any AA gun mounted at the top of the tower. Also, the tower doesn't correspond to standard German AA tower designs.
There's the chance that there was a German sniper or MG nest in that tower, but not a deliberately emplaced AAA defense.
That said, there were and are many different patterns of brick or concrete water towers which dot the European landscape, some of them are over 100 years old. During WW2, they were common landmarks/waypoints as well as being targets of opportunity. So, adding a few different water tower patterns would be a nice addition to any Western European map.
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Originally Posted by Music
Higher sand bags, and walls of them for covering buildings.
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+1 on this request. Plus high sandbag and/or wooden blast shields which can be placed around large oil tanks, as were found at Ploesti during the War.
I'd also like to see various industrial pipe sections, conveyor belts, industrial buildings etc. which could be used in a modular fashion to represent factory complexes which produce petroleum or chemical products (e.g., refineries, coal gasification plants, synthetic gas plants, chemical plants). These were common strategic targets during the war for both Allies and Axis.
Possibly, there could be more distinctly Soviet factory objects, in particular the buildings which made up the Dzeshinsky Tractor Factory in Stalingrad.