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History.
In December 1944, the Battle of the Ardennes took place: the German armored forces (fully armed and well prepared) launched a “massive” offensive through the Ardennes Forest, as they did in 1940, to try to surround the Anglo-American-French forces and throw them back overboard. Initially the operation worked since the Allied forces did not expect such a massive attack at such a critical time for Germany, but in the end the battle proved to be the “swan song” for the German forces since after that offensive all German forces remained extremely exhausted and unable to put up a tenacious and effective resistance against the enemy forces.
However, at a time relatively soon after the fighting began (Dec. 24), a soldier of uncertain origin (some sources speak of American with mixed German-American equipment, others of a German soldier with mixed equipment) set out to draw patriotic writing over the shield of a 6pdr M1 gun. Unfortunately, the end of the soldier who wrote the inscription is not known, nor is the end of the cannon and its inscription, however, it is known that the inscription was replicated at least one other time by German troops on another cannon at a time relatively close to that of the first inscription.
The decal.
The decal is simply the inscription “Aus der Traum” (“Out of the dream” or “The dream is over”) divided over two lines and written in white.
Pictures and drawnings.
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