Thank you for the news! Incredible!
Alessandro
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- Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:27 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: About SS Lt.Arno Giesen(Das Reich)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9405
- Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:42 pm
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: ONLY 1 (one)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6300
Re: ONLY 1 (one)
Hi,
my preferred memoir is maybe H.Werner's Iron Coffins, about the author's experiences as a submarine crew member and later as commander, very exciting.
Among the best unit history in english, Fish's PzRegiment 8 is very well written and full of personal accounts
Alessandro
my preferred memoir is maybe H.Werner's Iron Coffins, about the author's experiences as a submarine crew member and later as commander, very exciting.
Among the best unit history in english, Fish's PzRegiment 8 is very well written and full of personal accounts
Alessandro
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:32 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Panzer Regiment 8.../Kevin Fish (Schiffer)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4850
Re: Panzer Regiment 8.../Kevin Fish (Schiffer)
Hi, just finish to read my copy, very good reading on this little covered unit, with a well balanced mix with veteran's interviews and overall action by the grand unit. I hope to read the "sequel" on '43-'45 on an the eastern front, with, i suppose, interviews on Hermann Eckhardt and his a...
- Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:11 am
- Forum: Campaigns and Battles
- Topic: Frundsberg in Gambsheim January 1945
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2273
- Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:09 am
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: DAK 164th Infantry
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3666
Hi, the division was formally estabilished on 15.8.1942 in Nordafrika as 164. leichte Afrika Division (mot.), but from juli employed as KGr under ObKo/Panzergruppe Afirka. First units in action under italian 20. Corpo: Inf Rg 125 (mot.) with Pionierkampfgruppe Hecker around El Daba against british t...
- Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:21 am
- Forum: Heer
- Topic: 3rd and 60th panzer Gren. divs at stalingrad
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3429
- Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:02 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Luftwaffe TB in the Black Sea
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3275
Hi Enrico, the german staffel used for torpedo operations in the BS was 6./KG26. They were active with 2-3 aircraft in armed reconnaissance, above all around Odessa. the only confirmed success I have found is an attack by 6./KG 26 on 16.10.41 with the sinking of the steamer Bolshevik (1412 GRT). Pos...
- Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:30 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Luftwaffe TB in the Black Sea
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3275
Re: Luftwaffe TB in the Black Sea
Hi,
yes! 6./KG26 was based breafly in Romania from late 1941 to 1942 prior to arrive in the Med and reported some successes against russian vessels
tomorrow I give you details
ciao
Alessandro
yes! 6./KG26 was based breafly in Romania from late 1941 to 1942 prior to arrive in the Med and reported some successes against russian vessels
tomorrow I give you details
ciao
Alessandro
- Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:24 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Convoy KMF 5 - Aerial Torpedoing of the Cameronia
- Replies: 44
- Views: 30965
Hi, yet I'm at work tomorrow I give to you exact information on the position ( I can maybe exchange numbers, 36.57N appears to me more probable) of the attack my sources are various: OKW diaries, Thiele's LW Torpedo Aircraft and Operations in WW2, and Mattesini and Santoni's la partecipazione tedesc...
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:45 am
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: Shark attacks on Kriegsmarine personnel?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7572
Re: Shark attacks on Kriegsmarine personnel?
Hi,
the crew of the raider Atlantis, after the sinking of the ship in Indian Ocean, was attacked by numrous sharks. A vivid description is in the book "Atlantis" of Mohr,an Atlantis' officer
Alessandro
the crew of the raider Atlantis, after the sinking of the ship in Indian Ocean, was attacked by numrous sharks. A vivid description is in the book "Atlantis" of Mohr,an Atlantis' officer
Alessandro
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:05 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Convoy KMF 5 - Aerial Torpedoing of the Cameronia
- Replies: 44
- Views: 30965
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:34 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Convoy KMF 5 - Aerial Torpedoing of the Cameronia
- Replies: 44
- Views: 30965
Hallo, I’m deeply interested in anti shipping operations in the Med and about the torpedoing of the Cameronia, I’m not sure that she was torpedoed by U-565. Convoy KMS 5 was under attack by U-Boot already on the 21.12 and OKW claimed a large ship sunk and another damaged, the ship sunk was the troop...
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:28 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED BY KG 26 TORPEDO BOMBERS IN THE MED
- Replies: 50
- Views: 21113
Hi to all, the only possible german success with torpedo in the battle for Creta in May 1941 could be the attack on convoy AN30 on 9 may 41, with the 5000 BRT Rawsley hit by one torpedo, both II/KG26 and 281. Squadriglia participated in the action and claimed the hit. Rawnsley was bombed and sunk 3 ...
- Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:51 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED BY KG 26 TORPEDO BOMBERS IN THE MED
- Replies: 50
- Views: 21113
Re: SHIPS SUNK OR DAMAGED BY KG 26 TORPEDO BOMBERS IN THE ME
Hi, the minesweeper Acute was hit by torpedo launched from german aircraft on 7/8 jan 43 The attack on 29 jan was executed by italian SM79 on 18,30 and by KG26 on 18,37, with the Podgoriza hit by italian and Avon Vale by german, according to the very good book from Mattesini "La partecipazione ...
- Wed May 11, 2005 3:53 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: About SS Lt.Arno Giesen(Das Reich)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9405