Hill Numbers

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gavmeister13
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Hill Numbers

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Post by gavmeister13 » 28 Apr 2003, 10:20

How were hill numbers chosen? i keep reading things like "the germans held hill 364 which was a cruical defence point", "the struggle for hill 825 went on for 3 days" etc.

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Post by Stauffenberg II » 28 Apr 2003, 10:53

It was just the height measured from the sea level (sea height?). The battle for the Mount Everest would have been the battle for Hill 8.847 or 8.848.

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Post by PanzerKing » 28 Apr 2003, 22:19

Cool...I always wanted to know that also.
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Post by Matt L » 03 May 2003, 15:22

Of course it probably made a difference which country made the maps as to whether the measurement is in feet or meters too... at least in WWII

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