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Marie - Abt. (Battalion) Prague/SS Artillery Training and Replacement Regiment IV, with the XIX Dewitz possibly refering to a district and section of the city of Prague, maybe an outlying suburb, and "bei der neuen Technik 4" being further directions to its location (near or at the new Tec...

Kunnar -

Thanks for posting that photo montage. It provided an outstanding opportunity to take a look at a rarely covered subject - a unit of the Ordnungspolizei from enlistment, through their training cycle and then into their first employment in Ukraine. Very, very interesting!

--Lorenz

Your English is excellent - a thousand times better than anyone in this threat can write Italian. No need to apologize.

FpN 21118 August 1943:

Rgts.Stab u.Stabs-Kp.(= A) SS-Pz.Rgt. 9 (Hohenstaufen).

--Lorenz

In reading the above discussion, I was struck by the fact that no one mentioned that virtually all of the FMS series (plus much, much more, as they say in the TV ads) was microfilmed some years ago by Scholarly Resources, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware, and may be either (a) purchased from them by in...

6.Kp./Pz.Gren.Rgt. 11, and then from 10.8.44 7.Kp./Pz.Gren.Rgt. 11.

--L.

The Luftwaffen-Bodenorganisation, from the Flakartillerie, to the Luftnachrichtentruppe, to the Flughafenbereiche und Fliegerhorstkommandanturen, to the Nachschubdienst, to the Luftwaffen-Bautruppen, to the Landesschützeneinheiten, etc. Why? Because all we read and hear about is the blankety-blank J...

Herr Dr. von Ferret - Klausch, Hans Peter. Die 999er - Von der Brigade "Z" zur Afrika-Division 999: Die Bewährungsbataillone und ihr Anteil am antifaschistischen Widerstand. Frankfurt/M.: Roederberg Verlag, 1986. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only well-researched, scholarly and ...

This is probably still the best source for the information you want because it is one of the few that specifically identify the Luftwaffe units that sunk or damaged the ships. There is a German edition and an English edition. Here is the English edition: Rohwer, Jürgen and Gerhard Hümmelchen. Chrono...

About 6 or 7 years ago, the U.K. specialty publisher Hikoki published a book entitled Aufklärer by David Wadman. The book goes into very great detail about Luftwaffe photographic reconnaissance, from both the operational and technical viewpoint. It may still be in print.

--Lorenz

Leo Niehorster said: " lei.Flak-Abt 805 - my notes indicate 41-42 in North Africa under 102. Flak-Rgt at Benghasi. [No idea where I found this anymore - like I said, the files are a bit dusty.] Note, however, Tessin and Michael Holm disagree, stating it was in Greece the whole time." An in...

Janusz Piekalkiewicz is a very prolific author who has been writing good stuff on World War II for 40 years. Born in 1925 in Warsaw, he was the nephew of the chief of the Polish Resistance, Prof. Jan Piekalkiewicz, and he fought in the resistance himself. After the war he eventually moved to Vienna ...

Res.Flak-Abt. 805 Nov 41: arrived in the Athens area for assignment to Flak-Rgt. 201. Nov 41 - Aug 42: airfield defense in the Athens area. Aug 42: 2. Battr. (Athens-Kalamaki) and perhaps the rest of the Abteilung being sent to Crete. Winter 42/43: disbanded and most of the Abteilung was used to fo...

But of course, Florin. But it is difficult to put one's mind back in that time and place when these decisions were made so as to understand their thinking, feelings, information they had and did not have, the stress and pressures after nearly four years of war, the wishes of the American people, the...