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- Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:05 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: Favourite Knights Cross Action
- Replies: 121
- Views: 306812
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...
- Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:00 pm
- Forum: Campaigns and Battles
- Topic: Incidents and actions from the Eastern Front - 1941.
- Replies: 60
- Views: 64351
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 Aviators claim to have observed that part of the enemy's artillery has withdrawn.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...
- Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:45 am
- Forum: Campaigns and Battles
- Topic: Raid towards Breda 1940.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3402
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 ...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 12:03 pm
- Forum: Photographs
- Topic: Soldier's Life!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4952
Re: Soldier's Life!
Hello to all ; more...................
Men who fear not even the devil!
Source: https://www.delcampe.net/en_GB/collecta ... 43663.html
Cheers. Raúl M .
Men who fear not even the devil!
Source: https://www.delcampe.net/en_GB/collecta ... 43663.html
Cheers. Raúl M .
- 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...
- Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:15 am
- Forum: Campaigns and Battles
- Topic: Incidents and actions from the Eastern Front - 1941.
- Replies: 60
- Views: 64351
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...
- Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:47 am
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: German U Boats Type IA.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 25873
Re: German U Boats Type IA.
Hello to all ; a little more..............................
U-boat Type IA in port.
Source: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/514 ... 57f2_b.jpg
Cheers. Raúl M .
U-boat Type IA in port.
Source: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/514 ... 57f2_b.jpg
Cheers. Raúl M .
- Mon Jan 06, 2025 9:50 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: Favourite Knights Cross Action
- Replies: 121
- Views: 306812
Re: Favourite Knights Cross Action
Gebauer was born on 5 June 1910...............
- Mon Jan 06, 2025 8:31 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: Favourite Knights Cross Action
- Replies: 121
- Views: 306812
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...
- 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...
- Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:26 am
- Forum: Campaigns and Battles
- Topic: Raid towards Breda 1940.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3402
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...
- Sat Jan 04, 2025 12:48 pm
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: Kriegsmarine im Dienst.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 103614
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...
- Sat Jan 04, 2025 6:16 am
- Forum: Unit Histories, Feldpost Numbers & Orders of Battle
- Topic: Kampfgruppe Tyroller 1942.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2073
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...
- Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:04 pm
- Forum: Kriegsmarine
- Topic: Hitler's high seas fleet
- Replies: 55
- Views: 46215
Re: Hitler's high seas fleet
Hello to all ; more..............................
The Führer with his Kriegsmarine.
Source: annoshow Di, 4. April 1939
Cheers. Raúl M .
The Führer with his Kriegsmarine.
Source: annoshow Di, 4. April 1939
Cheers. Raúl M .
- Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:30 am
- Forum: Commanders, Personalities & Award Holders
- Topic: Favourite Knights Cross Action
- Replies: 121
- Views: 306812
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...