Re: the Albert Canal - May 1940.
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2010 6:23 am
Hello to all ; here goes something more..............
The assault against the position of the Albert Canal - May of 1940.
3. Fall Gelb - May 1940.
3.1. Airborne assault.
Assault to Eben Emael.
Work 19, here fought the assault detachment No. 4 of Feldwebel Wenzel. (Wenzel recalled) we landed about 30 meters from the bunker, shortly before landing I blew up the hatch. I was sat with my machine gun and a charge of 1 kg in my hands. On landing the Braking was so violent that the glider was almost over its nose and I gave my face hard against the Bräutigam’s seat and started bleeding but it was not time to walk with contemplations and jumped over the pilot shouting out! Out!.
The attackers made their way towards their goal and the Belgians were destroyed (Wenzel recalled) I got to the top of the bunker and threw it through the opening of the periscope a charge of 1 kg, down there was silence after the explosion. My two companions arrived and we put the charge of 50 kg, and we ran to hide behind a wall. I counted 21 to 27 but nothing happened, I asked if they had pulled the pin and they quickly answered yes, soon a lightning and a thick mushroom cloud.
Back to the cupola but it was not destroyed, then we placed a charge of 12.5 kg under the barrel, another explosion and it was opened a hole in the wall but not big another charge of 50 kgs and the gap was big enough to enter inside. Thick smoke and no movement, suddenly the phone rang, and I picked up the headset and listened up words in French, a language I could not understood, so I said "here are the Germans" and the response was “Oh mon Dieu” (oh My God) then I tore the phone. On the other side of the line had been the commander of the fortress.
Sources: Private Sales List-Art Rgt 103 - Belgium, France_archivos. Viernes, 13 de febrero de 2009, 9:17:19
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... /AR103.htm
Bélgica durante la SGM. El Canal Alberto 10 y 11 de Mayo de 1940. http://www.10may1940.org/forumeng/index.php
18 Días de Guerra en Bélgica. TGrl Oscar Michiels. Círculo Militar.
Deutschen Fallschirmjäger im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Volkmar Kühn.
http://home.tiscali.nl/grensschap/Oorlog/wo_ii.htm
Fortissimi sunt Belgae. Lieutenant Col Marcel A. Ronge.
Aus der Geschichte Panzer Grenadier Regiment 12 (SR 12). Oskar Schaub.
Bildert über den Einsatz und Marschweg des I. Friesen Bataillons in Holland, Belgien und Frankreich.
Geschichte der 269 Infanterie Division. Helmut Römhild.
Eijsden, dorp onder vuur. Frans Roebroeks. Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg.
Belgium. The Official Account of what happened 1939-1940.
Cheers. Raúl M .
The assault against the position of the Albert Canal - May of 1940.
3. Fall Gelb - May 1940.
3.1. Airborne assault.
Assault to Eben Emael.
Work 19, here fought the assault detachment No. 4 of Feldwebel Wenzel. (Wenzel recalled) we landed about 30 meters from the bunker, shortly before landing I blew up the hatch. I was sat with my machine gun and a charge of 1 kg in my hands. On landing the Braking was so violent that the glider was almost over its nose and I gave my face hard against the Bräutigam’s seat and started bleeding but it was not time to walk with contemplations and jumped over the pilot shouting out! Out!.
The attackers made their way towards their goal and the Belgians were destroyed (Wenzel recalled) I got to the top of the bunker and threw it through the opening of the periscope a charge of 1 kg, down there was silence after the explosion. My two companions arrived and we put the charge of 50 kg, and we ran to hide behind a wall. I counted 21 to 27 but nothing happened, I asked if they had pulled the pin and they quickly answered yes, soon a lightning and a thick mushroom cloud.
Back to the cupola but it was not destroyed, then we placed a charge of 12.5 kg under the barrel, another explosion and it was opened a hole in the wall but not big another charge of 50 kgs and the gap was big enough to enter inside. Thick smoke and no movement, suddenly the phone rang, and I picked up the headset and listened up words in French, a language I could not understood, so I said "here are the Germans" and the response was “Oh mon Dieu” (oh My God) then I tore the phone. On the other side of the line had been the commander of the fortress.
Sources: Private Sales List-Art Rgt 103 - Belgium, France_archivos. Viernes, 13 de febrero de 2009, 9:17:19
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... /AR103.htm
Bélgica durante la SGM. El Canal Alberto 10 y 11 de Mayo de 1940. http://www.10may1940.org/forumeng/index.php
18 Días de Guerra en Bélgica. TGrl Oscar Michiels. Círculo Militar.
Deutschen Fallschirmjäger im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Volkmar Kühn.
http://home.tiscali.nl/grensschap/Oorlog/wo_ii.htm
Fortissimi sunt Belgae. Lieutenant Col Marcel A. Ronge.
Aus der Geschichte Panzer Grenadier Regiment 12 (SR 12). Oskar Schaub.
Bildert über den Einsatz und Marschweg des I. Friesen Bataillons in Holland, Belgien und Frankreich.
Geschichte der 269 Infanterie Division. Helmut Römhild.
Eijsden, dorp onder vuur. Frans Roebroeks. Regionaal Historisch Centrum Limburg.
Belgium. The Official Account of what happened 1939-1940.
Cheers. Raúl M .