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What was the exact status or position within the German chain-of-command of HQ Pz Gp West, in Normandy in 1944? Specifically, did it report to HQ 7 Army, or did it report independently to HQ Army Gp B? I gather that by the beginning of July (after it was reconstituted following the airstrike at Chat...

Yes, although most were British officers. There is some discussion in, Hew Strachan's The Politics of the British Army , pp 80-81: ...the Indian Political Service. Essentially India’s diplomatic corps, the political service represented the British government on the military marches and in the border...

Bit off topic here ... but can anyone recommend a quick "potted history" of the British Empire's system of political officers? Not political officers in the sense of commissars as in the Red Army, but their system of local officials who represented British authority and dealt with locals o...

Okay, I'll bite -- what's this about "senior", "second" and "junior" regts in a brigade? I gather from the above that this was somehow reflected in the flashes or markings painted on their vehicles? I'm fairly conversant with the arcane details of Brit/Commonwealth armi...

Rich wrote: I'm afraid you will be disappointed. :( There are some relating to LXXXI A.K. dispositions in August-October in 1591, but little else. Rich, you are of course correct. There is supply situation material in 1571, which casts interesting light on the situation, but nothing like the complet...

...Artillerie-Regiment 191 of 91. Luftlande-Division in the spring of 1944 (emphasis added) In the spring ? Hmmm. Well, 91 LLDiv was only depl to Normandy in May (Zetterling, Normandy 1944, Winnipeg: JJ Fedorowicz, 2000, p 239), and indeed, the AOK 7 daily sitmaps that I have for May support that. ...

Abicht, Good news to be sure, and I'll order them. But.... Again there are no specific Normandy or invasion maps exclusively covering that area from 6-13 June... just over all France maps covering it. What do you mean by that? What files did you find maps in? Here's what I've found, plowing through ...

Leo,

Outstanding!

I knew this group would know.

Cheers,

Just for encouragement - here is the AOK 7 sitmap for D-Day at 2200 hrs:

This is a query about German map symbology, specifically formation boundaries. As I understand it: * Army boundaries = heavy solid lines * Corps boundaries = "hatched" heavy solid line with single dot in between * Div boundaries = "hatched" heavy solid line (no dots in between) B...

I am interested in German sitmaps from Normandy, 1944. Will any be coming any time soon?
Indeed, given the popular interest in D-Day, I'm surprised at the lack of them.

Cheers,

...would it be safe to say then that the Afghans prefer a open fight(engagement of battle)? After a fashion. It rather depends, I suppose, upon how one defines an "open engagement." Their preferred method of open engagement is an ambush. (Not that I'm suggesting that that's not smart.) I ...

The short answer to the original question is that there are less casualties from IEDs in Afghanistan than in Iraq simply because there is less war in Afghanistan than in Iraq. As an earlier poster noted, there are -- ballpark -- 35,000-ish international soldiers in Afghanistan, against, how many hun...

5RANGLIAN wrote:Wellington had lots, but like him, they're all a bit serious and intense.

Well, I think that one of the best of military quotations is Wellington at Waterloo:

"Hard pounding this gentlemen ...
Let us see who will pound longest."

All right -- now that I'm home from Afghanistan and once again sipping my morning coffee and reading through Feldgrau -- I'll wade in on this one. LH is an interesting character, but love him or hate him (or have a love/hate relationship with him) his influence stemmed not from his having been a cap...