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Hi MD, Been there, done that. I see not much has changed since I was there a few years ago. However, the cost of making copies has gone up. When I was there it was 25 cents a copy! This does give other prospective visitors an idea of what they are in for. I hope to get back one day myself. There is ...

Hi Guderian, Since no one seemed to be interested in trying to answer your question I thought I would at least take a stab at the number of men. I did not have a total available so I did this the hard way. I had to total all the individual units together. This included the combat and non-combat unit...

Hi Mihail,
I'll be more than happy to send you a copy. I'll send a PM to get your e-mail address.

best regards, Bill

PS: Well, I should looked be I leapt . Your e-mail is already on here. I'll use it .

Hi Mihail, The war diaries have alot of information on the actions of the divisions and the regiments. It will be more difficult to find the actions of units under regimental size because the records for those were destoryed before the end of the war. I have a copy of the XIX Corps war diary in tif ...

Hi Rohrbach,
When I saw this post I ordered and got a copy of the book. When I finish reading it I will post a review here.

best regards, Bill

Hi Sw18x, I have a copy of Glantz's Stalingrad map set. It's a mixed bag of good and bad maps. The problem is that he copied the maps from the microfilm rolls and I can tell you from my own experience that making paper copies from the microfilms were not the best way to transpose them. Today we have...

Hi All,
Richard, your books are a good read in any language .

best regards, Bill

Hi Gladysiak, Well, sad news :( . I looked through the microfilm rolls for the 4th Army and Army Group North and found nothing related to seaborne operations. The only special operation mentioned is the seizure of the Dirschau bridge by Group Medem. For pre-war stuff only the deployment and directio...

Hi All, Andrzej - I e-mailed you to tell you what I can do. I did forget :oops: to tell you that yes, the war diary has info on the final assault on Hela. Gladysiak - The two areas I'm thinking of are the 4th Army and Army Group North. I think I have on microfilm some of their records going back to ...

Hi Gladysiak, Thanks for sharing the information you have. I looked at the Korps Kaupisch war diary and it starts on August 25th! Naturally there is no mention of plans for seaborne operations. All it talks about is the mobilization and immediate deployment of its forces. It would be interesting to ...

Hi Gladysiak, You're right in that OKH made plans for the seaborne landings. But by the time August rolled around they realized they did not have the assets to attempt the operations, so they were cancelled. All of this info is probably in the OKH records for May through July 1939. You would have to...

Hi LG, As far as I know the Germans never planned any seaborne landing at Hela. The Germans had limited naval assets and the Germans considered the Polish seaward defensive works too strong to tackle with what they had. This is from my reading of Corps Kaupisch's war diary during the campaign. Best ...

Hi MD, I'll take a swing at this one :wink: . This all from Georg Tessin's Verbände und Truppen der Deutschen Wehrmacht & Waffen SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945 Volume 10 . For the 406th; "in the Walkurie callup from the Wehrkreise in September 1944 the division staff plus parts of the di...

Hi All, According to Leo Niehorsters "German World War Two Oganizational Series: Volume 1/I -Mechanized GHQ Units and Waffen SS Units (September 1st, 1939)"; the armored car platoon of the LAH had 4 x Sdkfz 221's, 2 x Sdkfz 231's and 2 x Sdkfz 232's. This is the authorized strength and the...

Hi All,
You are most certainly welcome . I hope Sid can find this as it was he who requested this in the first place .

best regards, Bill