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Jason,

Thanks! Any idea how the unit was organized (i.e. was it part of the artillery battalion, one of the infantry regiments, or its own formation within the division?).

In James Lucas' book on SS Div. Das Reich, he mentions that a battery of SPs was incorporated into the division for the first campaign in the east. Since the term SP could apply to anything from vehicle-mounted artillery to tank destroyers to StuGs, does anyone have any clarification on what type of...

Try "Decision in the Ukraine" by Nipe. It covers the II. SS Panzerkorps and III. Panzerkorps from Kursk through the fighting on the Mius and the defensive actions nears Bodukhov and Kharkov in late Summer 1943.

That said, the Germans did have a commando force - Division ZvB "Brandenburg".

The Russians ALWAYS had enough troops. And they have consistently had a knack for building defensive fortifications in incredibly short times...hell, they built a fortress out of the Mius after only two weeks. The Elefants never went to 2.SS Panzerkorps or Grossdeutschland, but rather to a couple He...

He does mention being a Standartenoberjunker and being "one step away from making it to Untersturmfuhrer, and had just been made a Zugfuhrer, with 3 panthers and 3 Panzer IVs under my command." A Zug with six tanks of differing types would have been EXTREMELY unlikely at any point in the ...

i would give Kurt Student a bump too.

http://www.stormpages.com/garyjkennedy/ ... ier_ba.htm

Good resource on lower-level infantry organization.

To say that all Russians are communists is no different than saying that all Germans are Nazis.

Where's Hausser? He should be a 6 or 7 IMO.

fallschirmjäger in bermuda! i want to see bermuda shorts...

pak40 wrote:some may disagree with me BUT, i wish that the losses would have been more catastrophic. But I can only now dream.

Chris

Why would you wish that more people had died?

Forcibly removing people from their homes to ensure continued slave labor is certainly participation in the holocaust.

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