Re: A motorized division in Barbarroja 1941.
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 5:18 am
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With the 25. ID (Mot) in Operation Barbarossa.
Attack to the north. Encirclement of Kiew - September 12 to 23, 1941.
As mentioned above, on September 12, 1941 the 25. ID (Mot) went on to fulfill new tasks by a long march north to Krementschug. From there framed in the Armored Group Kleist would be part of the south pincer that would close around the Ukrainian capital. The previously suffered losses could be compensated in this time so the division was in personnel over 94%, in material, armament and equipment to 92% and in vehicles to 80%. The march passed almost in peace conditions. The 25. ID (Mot) crossed the Dniepr river in Krementschug through a pontoon bridge on September 14, 1941. On this same day east of Pirjatin and about 200 kilometers east of Kiew the vanguard of Guderian Armored Group from the north and the Kleist Armored Group shook hands.
After crossing the bridge, the division was subordinated to the XXXXVIII AK (Mot) that ordered to continue advancing towards the north. At dusk of September 14, the vanguard of the 25. ID (Mot) conformed by the Kradsch. Btl, the Aufkl. Abt. and the Pi. Btl, had relieved another unit in Lukomje on the Ssula (90 km northwest of Krementschug). On September 15, 1941, the Kradsch. Btl occupied a small bridgehead facing northwest and retained it despite the counterattacks. Five Soviet armies were trapped inside the siege. They suffered the same crisis that the German armies had later, since Stalin had ordered: to stay and resist! Die if necessary! The terrain in the area was open and slightly undulating, suitable for agriculture, in which the river valleys, which flow from north to south, are up to 100 meters wide.
While the IR 35 (Mot) reinforced, had been available to the Army Corps to secure the left flank of it. On September 17, 1941, that unit attacked from the bridgehead of the Kradsch. btl. 25, having as its objective the Orshiza. The regiment reached the sector quickly breaking enemy resistance without inconvenience and then occupied a defensive position facing west. The rest of the division was engaged on the right flank of the XXXXVIII AK northwest of Lubny. The roads of march became bad beyond Chorol, the decayed bridges broke, the path was swampy. The division reached Ssentscha and crossed the Ssula by a stunted wooden bridge and at dusk on September 17 was west of the town on a line of heights, advanced elements occupied the town of Tschernuchi with the mission to attack towards Pirjatin on the Udaj.
Sources: Wege eines Soldaten. Gerhard Brugmann, Heinz Gaedcke.
Erwin Boehm: Geschichte der 25. Division, Hrsg.: Kameradenhilfswerk 25 e.V., Stuttgart 1983
http://www.kavallerie-regiment18.de/aa25.html
Cheers. Raúl M .
With the 25. ID (Mot) in Operation Barbarossa.
Attack to the north. Encirclement of Kiew - September 12 to 23, 1941.
As mentioned above, on September 12, 1941 the 25. ID (Mot) went on to fulfill new tasks by a long march north to Krementschug. From there framed in the Armored Group Kleist would be part of the south pincer that would close around the Ukrainian capital. The previously suffered losses could be compensated in this time so the division was in personnel over 94%, in material, armament and equipment to 92% and in vehicles to 80%. The march passed almost in peace conditions. The 25. ID (Mot) crossed the Dniepr river in Krementschug through a pontoon bridge on September 14, 1941. On this same day east of Pirjatin and about 200 kilometers east of Kiew the vanguard of Guderian Armored Group from the north and the Kleist Armored Group shook hands.
After crossing the bridge, the division was subordinated to the XXXXVIII AK (Mot) that ordered to continue advancing towards the north. At dusk of September 14, the vanguard of the 25. ID (Mot) conformed by the Kradsch. Btl, the Aufkl. Abt. and the Pi. Btl, had relieved another unit in Lukomje on the Ssula (90 km northwest of Krementschug). On September 15, 1941, the Kradsch. Btl occupied a small bridgehead facing northwest and retained it despite the counterattacks. Five Soviet armies were trapped inside the siege. They suffered the same crisis that the German armies had later, since Stalin had ordered: to stay and resist! Die if necessary! The terrain in the area was open and slightly undulating, suitable for agriculture, in which the river valleys, which flow from north to south, are up to 100 meters wide.
While the IR 35 (Mot) reinforced, had been available to the Army Corps to secure the left flank of it. On September 17, 1941, that unit attacked from the bridgehead of the Kradsch. btl. 25, having as its objective the Orshiza. The regiment reached the sector quickly breaking enemy resistance without inconvenience and then occupied a defensive position facing west. The rest of the division was engaged on the right flank of the XXXXVIII AK northwest of Lubny. The roads of march became bad beyond Chorol, the decayed bridges broke, the path was swampy. The division reached Ssentscha and crossed the Ssula by a stunted wooden bridge and at dusk on September 17 was west of the town on a line of heights, advanced elements occupied the town of Tschernuchi with the mission to attack towards Pirjatin on the Udaj.
Sources: Wege eines Soldaten. Gerhard Brugmann, Heinz Gaedcke.
Erwin Boehm: Geschichte der 25. Division, Hrsg.: Kameradenhilfswerk 25 e.V., Stuttgart 1983
http://www.kavallerie-regiment18.de/aa25.html
Cheers. Raúl M .