Need a quick German Translation...

[Runs With Scissors]

I've got a shirt that's been floating around for many, many years. My brother got it when he was stationed in Germany. As I recall it was one of those get drunk and swap shirts and uniforms with the Germans kinda thing.

The front of it reads:

Begleitbatterie 5
III.Zug


(caricature of troops in a bunker firing weapons)

15 MONATE HATTEN WIR EINEN GEHEIMEN
AUFTRAG, ER WAR SO GEHEIM, DASS
WIR BIS HEUTE NICHT WISSEN WAS WIR TATEN.
GieBen


BACK OF SHIRT READS:

RESERVISTEN

(Caricature of troops with lots of weapons from guns to battle axes)

Unsere Uniform konnen
Fuchse tragen,
uns juckt nichts mehr
mit ooo Tagen!

I./Quartal 88

I would greatly appreciate a translation of this one. My eight year old son is quite interested in it, and I'd like a translation for him.

Huh...gee....hopefully I didn't just type a dozen lines of German obscenities onto the Community Forum....

 

[geothorn]

You could try using the Babelfish (nearly) universal translator:

http://babelfish.altavista.com

GeoThorn

 

[Nordic Viking]

Here's a quick translation from German to Swedish to Swahili to English. Awaiting Quiet Storm's more simpler German to English translation

15 MONATE HATTEN WIR EINEN GEHEIMEN
AUFTRAG, ER WAR SO GEHEIM, DASS
WIR BIS HEUTE NICHT WISSEN WAS WIR TATEN

For 15 months our mission was so secret that we still [today] don't know what we did - RESERVISTS

Unsere Uniform konnen
Fuchse tragen,
uns juckt nichts mehr
mit ooo Tagen!.

Foxes can wear our uniforms now, because we have 0 itchy days left

 

[Rugger]

Here's a quick translation from German to Swedish to Swahili to English. Awaiting Quiet Storm's more simpler German to English translation



For 15 months our mission was so secret that we still [today] don't know what we did - RESERVISTS



Foxes can wear our uniforms now, because we have 0 itchy days left

Yep- that's it.
Used to see the guys ("Abgaenger" I think is the term- means one who is seperated- graduated or released) piss drunk w/ signatures all over their shirts in bars when I was living in Germany. Good times being had by all.

 

[underaged!]

Here's a quick translation from German to Swedish to Swahili to English. Awaiting Quiet Storm's more simpler German to English translation

15 MONATE HATTEN WIR EINEN GEHEIMEN
AUFTRAG, ER WAR SO GEHEIM, DASS
WIR BIS HEUTE NICHT WISSEN WAS WIR TATEN

Haha, I'm not surprised. That's damn funny!

 

[TexasNativeDRJH]

Try FreeTranslation.com- its not perfect but it will help. They also have the option of you sending them the phrase to be translated by a human for a small cost. Not sure how much, never tried

 

[Ilovetoolsteel]

You could try using the Babelfish (nearly) universal translator:

http://babelfish.altavista.com

GeoThorn

I just spent 2 hours playing with this thing, freakin brilliant!

Or

Ich verbrachte gerade zwei Stunden, die mit dieser Sache spielen, das Freakin leuchtend!

 

[Quiet Storm]

Gotta love those shirts.

NV did a very good job. One minor correction:

[...] because we have 0 itchy days left

"[...] we don't care anymore because we have 0 days left"

Begleitbatterie 5
III.Zug

"5th Artillery Support Battery, 3rd Platoon"

 

[Runs With Scissors]

Thanks for the help y'all. You've done much to satiate the curiousity of an eight year old. awright....I'll admit, I was a little curious too....