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by tigre
Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:05 am
Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
Topic: Favourite Knights Cross Action
Replies: 121
Views: 306814

Re: Favourite Knights Cross Action

Hello to all :D; one more........... Herbert Ruhnke (April 10th, 1914 Berlin-Charlottenburg/Prussia - March 1945 Silesia, Germany). Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as Unteroffizier and Geschützführer 3. / Panzerjäger-Abteilung 294 Awarded on February 8th, 1943. The following wartime excerpt describ...
by tigre
Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:00 pm
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Incidents and actions from the Eastern Front - 1941.
Replies: 60
Views: 64352

Re: Incidents and actions from the Eastern Front - 1941.

Hello to all :D; more..................... Attack Across a River. On 11 July at 1:00 AM orders are given to the regiment: the situation is considered favorable. Aviators claim to have observed that part of the enemy's artillery has withdrawn. The men themselves consider the situation unfavorable but...
by tigre
Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:45 am
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Raid towards Breda 1940.
Replies: 9
Views: 3403

Re: Raid towards Breda 1940.

Hello to all :D; more....................... Preparations up to May 10, 1940 for the raid of the 7th French Army towards Breda. The Breda Maneuver. In General Gamelin's mind, even if this idea is not clearly expressed in his orders, the future Breda Maneuver is inseparable from the Dyle Plan. It is ...
by tigre
Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:03 pm
Forum: Photographs
Topic: Soldier's Life!
Replies: 9
Views: 4952

Re: Soldier's Life!

Hello to all :D; more...................

Men who fear not even the devil!

Source: https://www.delcampe.net/en_GB/collecta ... 43663.html

Cheers. Raúl M 8).
by tigre
Fri Jan 10, 2025 6:17 am
Forum: Kriegsmarine
Topic: Hitler and the German Fleet.
Replies: 7
Views: 5303

Re: Hitler and the German Fleet.

Hello to all :D; more.............................. The Führer with his Kriegsmarine. The visit to the naval fleet must have been early (Goebbels describes a visit in 1933), as the ship flies the pre-NS war flag.... Source: https://auctions.potterauctions.com/__WORLD_WAR_II____NAZI_HIGH_COMMAND___Al...
by tigre
Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:15 am
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Incidents and actions from the Eastern Front - 1941.
Replies: 60
Views: 64352

Re: Incidents and actions from the Eastern Front - 1941.

Hello to all :D; trying to find out which action and unit....................... Attack Across a River. SITUATION : Enemy defends himself in field positions on the east bank of the D. river opposite the reinforced 3rd company. By means of observation and combat reconnaissance at least four machine g...
by tigre
Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:47 am
Forum: Kriegsmarine
Topic: German U Boats Type IA.
Replies: 34
Views: 25874

Re: German U Boats Type IA.

Hello to all :D; a little more..............................

U-boat Type IA in port.

Source: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/514 ... 57f2_b.jpg

Cheers. Raúl M 8).
by tigre
Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:50 am
Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
Topic: Favourite Knights Cross Action
Replies: 121
Views: 306814

Re: Favourite Knights Cross Action

Gebauer was born on 5 June 1910...............
by tigre
Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:31 am
Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
Topic: Favourite Knights Cross Action
Replies: 121
Views: 306814

Re: Favourite Knights Cross Action

Hello to all :D; more............................... Fritz Gebauer (February 5, 1910 Friedrichsfeld/Mannheim - missing in action June 1944 Orsha, Russia). Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross awarded as Oberfeldwebel and Stoßtruppführer 3./Grenz-Pionier-Bataillon 74. Awarded July 13, 1940. The following...
by tigre
Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:27 am
Forum: Kriegsmarine
Topic: At the shipyard - Building a U Boat.
Replies: 44
Views: 36973

Re: At the shipyard - Building a U Boat.

Hello to all :D; more............ German shipyards and the evolution of the U-bootwaffe. Howaldtswerke AG Kiel. On April 1, 1939, the shipyard located in Kiel was sold to the German Navy and the headquarters of Howaldtswerke was moved to Hamburg. However, due to the inefficiency of the plant, the Hi...
by tigre
Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:26 am
Forum: Campaigns and Battles
Topic: Raid towards Breda 1940.
Replies: 9
Views: 3403

Re: Raid towards Breda 1940.

Hello to all :D; more....................... Preparations up to May 10, 1940 for the raid of the 7th French Army towards Breda. The design of the Dyle maneuver. The Escaut maneuver gave rise to the Hollande hypothesis, and studies to compensate for the weaknesses of the latter, which appeared during...
by tigre
Sat Jan 04, 2025 12:48 pm
Forum: Kriegsmarine
Topic: Kriegsmarine im Dienst.
Replies: 105
Views: 103618

Re: Kriegsmarine im Dienst.

Hello to all :D; more........................ RV with a linienschiff! Source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/126511062782?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D267143%26meid%3D8f75d7a1bd654fac87e155755217b8cc%26pid%3D101875%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D124918701576...
by tigre
Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:16 am
Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
Topic: Kampfgruppe Tyroller 1942.
Replies: 5
Views: 2075

Re: Kampfgruppe Tyroller 1942.

Hello to all :D; more....................................... Kampfgruppe Tyroller. During the fighting in the southern sector of the Eastern Front in late 1942, an ad hoc Kampfgruppe under Oberstleutnant Tyroller found itself in the middle of the Soviet offensive. Consisting of about 2,000 men (from...
by tigre
Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:04 pm
Forum: Kriegsmarine
Topic: Hitler's high seas fleet
Replies: 55
Views: 46218

Re: Hitler's high seas fleet

Hello to all :D; more..............................

The Führer with his Kriegsmarine.

Source: annoshow Di, 4. April 1939

Cheers. Raúl M 8).
by tigre
Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:30 am
Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
Topic: Favourite Knights Cross Action
Replies: 121
Views: 306814

Re: Favourite Knights Cross Action

Hello to all :D; more.................................. Ernst Clemente (27 April 1922 Freilassing/Bavaria - 19 January 1991 Freilassing/Bavaria). Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross as Obergefreiter and Pakschütze 1, 16. Kompanie, Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 13, 4. Gebirgs-Division. Awarded on Se...