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Thank you for the news! Incredible!

Alessandro

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

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...

Hi,

all the division fought in Gambsheim in Jan45

Alessandro

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...

Hallo,
Both division as part of the XIV PzKps fought in the north area of the pocket, in January
3. PGD was in the area Karpowka-Pitomnik

regards
Alessandro

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...

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

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...

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

hi,

OKW is "Oberkommando der Wehrmacht", my reference in the post are extracted from the OKW's diary

BRT is the german acronymous as the english GRT is for gross registered tonnage

Alessandro

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Hi, the number of 111 contains only tank kills even though is a personal count of Friesen itself. Friesen was only 20, but saw much action in Russia 1943, Normandy and the final battles in Hungary and Wien and won the tank assault badge "75", so a high number of kills is plausible alessandro