My wife's grandfather, an Iowan, was a BAR man in the armored infantry company depicted in DB129 (Silencing Sinzig) and DB143 (Fausts at Wethen). He didn't like to talk about the war, either.
Interestingly, the combat command commander in the first action was a graduate of the New Mexico...
For the PB, I keep copies of the Journal errata pages tucked in the book, and use colored highlighters to mark the affected rule sections, a different color for each Journal sheet. Works OK.
Indeed, the center turned out to be the weak point and was penetrated, but the FB was ineffective and the 45L platoon was unexpectedly effective. Also, should have deployed to the max for better initial probing!
As to the failed PMC, it does not happen to me this early in a scenario very...