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- Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:40 pm
- Forum: Operational Map Project & Archival Research
- Topic: Maps for Seelöwe
- Replies: 67
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Re: Maps for Seelöwe
OK! In Halder's diary it is stated in September (or August): Luftwaffe (feldzugmeister) reports 1.000 transports available. 750 operational. Fred, the Luftwaffe Transportgruppen never EVER mustered 1,000 Ju52s; it COULD theoretically muster that number of "transport" aircraft....but that ...
- Mon Jun 13, 2011 6:25 pm
- Forum: Operational Map Project & Archival Research
- Topic: Maps for Seelöwe
- Replies: 67
- Views: 60407
Re: Maps for Seelöwe
However, his transcript from Halder's visit in September is rather selective both on the conditions in the ports as well as loading equipment and the available number of Ju52's. If I remember correctly the port commanders did not see the sunken ships as a problem. Nor IIRC did Halder...what he saw ...
- Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:41 pm
- Forum: Operational Map Project & Archival Research
- Topic: Maps for Seelöwe
- Replies: 67
- Views: 60407
Re: Maps for Seelöwe
Yes, they were all "drive off" ramps....but there were at least three different ways they were deployed :wink: I don't see what high and dry has got to do with it....wouldn't that be the ideal - as the opposite of drifting around... 1/ you have to either BE run aground....or wait until you...
- Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:06 pm
- Forum: Operational Map Project & Archival Research
- Topic: Maps for Seelöwe
- Replies: 67
- Views: 60407
Re: Maps for Seelöwe
Not many - 3.200! Honestly, lwd - you are discussing Seelöwe without knowing this....? IIRC only a fraction were modified - COULD be modified....to lower the ramps themselves . A greater number required a large "A-frame" to be assembled by the men on board, then the ramp lowered....I.E. t...
- Tue May 03, 2011 1:42 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Dresden TV drama
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3193
Re: Dresden TV drama
Appears to have been a fairly recent made-for-TV drama showing the leadup to the 1945 raid from both sides. Anyone else catch it, would be interested to hear reactions? Niot that recent, it dates from 2006, I remember it the first time it was shown. Suprisingly its a GERMAN tv production, and is qu...
- Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:09 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Partisans, Guerillas, and Resistance
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11981
Re: Partisans, Guerillas, and Resistance
I was trying to think WWII when I wrote my comments. You're right, of course, but what is viewed as terrorism today isn't quite the same as 70 years ago, IMHO. Well, think of it THIS way - in WWII the particular use of reference terms was partly propaganda! :wink: The Germans weren't going to admit...
- Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:01 am
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Partisans, Guerillas, and Resistance
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11981
Re: Partisans, Guerillas, and Resistance
Well...technically there IS a difference between a Terorist and an Insurgent... A Terrorist hopes to bring his enemy to the negotiating table for whatever end by the expedient of making ALL the security arrangements required to maintain "normal" live in a particular nation too expensive to...
- Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:11 am
- Forum: Verboten! - Off topic content
- Topic: IT HAS RETURNED!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8999
Re: IT HAS RETURNED!
Just Googled on "Rolf Schiller"...
Also there we can see more of the WWII photo album he ocasionally posted pics from under various sockpuppets.
Also there we can see more of the WWII photo album he ocasionally posted pics from under various sockpuppets.
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:46 am
- Forum: Verboten! - Off topic content
- Topic: IT HAS RETURNED!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8999
Re: IT HAS RETURNED!
What a sick, sick puppy...
"Rolf at work again..."
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:44 am
- Forum: Verboten! - Off topic content
- Topic: IT HAS RETURNED!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8999
IT HAS RETURNED!
Once upon a time I promised a third party that the watchtower would not go unmanned...so I still keep up the Wacht Am Rhein...
http://s147.photobucket.com/home/kagerpics/index
THE INTERNET RETURN OF PAUL K. HARKER!
http://s147.photobucket.com/home/kagerpics/index
THE INTERNET RETURN OF PAUL K. HARKER!
- Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:33 am
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4665
Re: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
...tho' it was let down by a Nazi Gene Hunt in a dodgy hair dye job!
- Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:35 pm
- Forum: The Allies in WWII
- Topic: Partisans, Guerillas, and Resistance
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11981
Re: Partisans, Guerillas, and Resistance
Well, technically speaking - in English, a "partisan" is someone who supports one argument, creed or political belief. You can be "A" partisan, or "partisan" in your beliefs....and hence someone holding two opinions on a given topic or seeing and accepting both sides in...
- Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:49 pm
- Forum: Weapons and Equipment
- Topic: SdKfz 251 in September 1939
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2186
SdKfz 251 in September 1939
Can anyone tell me (perhaps from Zaloga) how many SdKfz 251s were used in the Polish Campaign in September 1939???
- Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:35 pm
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Fliegerhorst Deelen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5601
Re: Fliegerhorst Deelen
Looking here... http://www.vanderweel.info/atlantikwall/eov_grossraumgefechtsstand_diogenes.htm On september 17, 1944, the day of operation "Market-Garden" -the allied air landings at Arnhem-, the Germans destroyed the interior of "Diogenes" by using explosives, and buried the co...
- Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:12 pm
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Fliegerhorst Deelen
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5601
Re: Fliegerhorst Deelen
Haen, is this the establishment you're talking about? http://www.fliegerhorstdeelen.nl/?page_id=44&lang=en There's an interesting throwaway line in there... The proof of the German air defence system being effective came after the war: the Dutch Air Defence system, now needed to defend against R...