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Hi Igorn, :D As one of the few members of the FG community to speak Russian you are ideally suited to be able to provide us with Russian language accounts, details, statistics, etc. Most of the members of the FG community are genuinely interested in the outcome of battles fought on the Eastern Front...

Hi Igorn, :D Thus, on July 26th 1944 the 5th Panzer Division with 70 Panther tanks, 55 Pz IVs, as well as the subordinate sPzAbt 505 with 29 Tigers began arriving in Minsk area I don't think this is right. They can't have been reduced to 18 tanks by the 08/07/44 if they only started arriving on July...

Hi Panzeralex, :D Great info 8) . Martin, Panzeralex's post can identify what Russian unit was involved. 31st Guards Rifle Division (of 16th Guards Rifle Corps) supported by 29th Guards Tank Brigade (11th Guards Army organic unit) were the Soviet units attacking Height 243.9 and the village of Nikit...

Hi Martin & Igorn, :D Igorn, would it be possible for you to establish the Russian tank units that fought against Pz.Rgt. 31 and their actual losses? Martin, I don't unfortunately have details of the losses for this engagement but some thoughts on the units involved, maybe Igorn could supply som...

Hi Duplex30, :D The Battleground Europe series are also a valuable addition. They cover 10-20 of the major actions between the D-Day landings and the 1945 battles to break into Germany. The books have maps and present day photographs that help explain the battles. Written mostly from the Allied pers...

Hi TPMM, :D Here are some figures to counter those pesky school books, :[] In the 5 Military Districts (Leningrad, Baltic Special, Western Special, Kiev Special and Odessa) that primarily faced the onslaught of Barbarossa, the Soviet Union had the following quantities of equipment with regards Tanks...

Most definitely.

I know it is still early days but any idea of a rough ball park figure on the price. I won't hold you to any figures quoted. Just want to re-configure the Christmas wish list.

What? Never too early to plan ahead

Regards

David

Hi Halder,

"Poland 1939: The Storm in the Crucible"

To the point, it has location, intensity and the feeling of a severe test for the German Army.

I agree, if P&S will let you, stay away from Blitzkrieg.

Best wishes

Regards

David

Rich, Give it up, I did several pages ago. Despite using Soviet Sources Igorn still denied all facts and reasoned arguments used against him. His style of debate seems to be putting his hands over his ears and shouting the loudest. Igorn does not have the ability to grasp the concepts of a reasoned ...

Hi Igorn, :D The topic of this thread is the Failure of 16. PD, 17. PD, 1.PD and 8. PD at Brody, 1944. If you have something to say on this subject you are welcomed You are quite right. My apologies for hijacking your post. Sorry to all those viewers hoping for info on the attempted relief of Brody ...

Hello all, :D Anybody get any good books for Christmas? Thanks to my long suffering wife I was furnished with, what I regard as four gems. Best to point out at this stage that I chose the titles, she wasn't too happy because there was no surprise. Ah women, will we ever understand them. I've just fi...

Hi Igorn, :D Well if you are going to start quoting me von Salza wrote: You don't tend to credit German sources then lets make sure you quote me correctly. What I said was You don't tend to credit German sources (unless they suit your arguments that is and I stand by that statement. Can you name 2 o...

Hi Richard, :D Njorl is correct, there are very few English accounts of this action. Robert Kennedy's study doesn't even mention the incident, but it may be pitched at too high an Operational level for the detail you are looking. This is a bit rudimentary but has been taken from S Zaloga's Osprey Ca...

Hi Gary & Panzeralex, :D This is excellent stuff! 8) This is definitely the type of info we need from the Soviet side to help balance the version of events. Well done. This at least disproves Carrell's version of events of the Luftwaffe attack on the Corps on 08/07/43. I stand corrected. With on...

Hi Gary D, Happy New Year. The Samchuk book I was talking of was actually "Trinadtsataya guardeiskaya: boevoi put' Trinadtsatoi guardeiskoi Poltavaskoi ordena Lenina duazhdy Krasnoznamennoi ordena Suvorova i Kutuzova strelkovoi divizii (1941-1945)" (Thirteenth Guards: the combat path of th...