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Kapitän · 06-01-21, 02:29 AM

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Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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Friday, 30 May 1941: - U.A.K. and 2nd Training Division (U.L.D.), Gotenhafen -

Work-up's and Trials with the U.A.K. (Kpt.z.S.R. BRÄUTIGAM), the 2nd Training Division, Gotenhafen (Freg.Kpt. HARTMANN).

Operation "Rheinübung":
After a brief meeting with the German weather observation ship Sachsenwald (Leutnant zur See Wilhelm Schütte), the Spanish heavy cruiser Canarias (Captain Benigno González-Aller) finds two dead bodies floating in the sea which were pulled up aboard. These were Walter Gaszczak and Heinrich Neuschwander.

At 1000h on the next day, Saturday, 31st May, they will be given a naval burial service and their bodies will be committed to the deep.

In the end, out of a crew of more than 2,200 officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Bismarck, only 115 will have survived.

Cmdr: The Bismarck is gone! Why did Lütjens not pursue the already damaged HMS Prince of Wales and head back to Norway?

Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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Sunday, 1 June 1941: - U.A.K. and 2nd Training Division (U.L.D.), Gotenhafen -

Work-up's and Trials with the U.A.K. (Kpt.z.S.R. BRÄUTIGAM), the 2nd Training Division, Gotenhafen (Freg.Kpt. HARTMANN).

Operation "Merkur":
The invasion of Crete by German Airborne and Mountain Troops, is successfully concluded, with heavy losses on both sides.

On 30 May, Colonel Campbell, the British commander at Rethymno, was forced to surrender his contingent. German motorcycle troops linked up with the Italian troops who had landed on Sitia. Today, on 1 June, the remaining 5,000 defenders at Sfakia surrender.

By the end of December, about 500 Commonwealth troops will remain at large on the island. While scattered and disorganized, these men and the partisans will harass German troops for long after the withdrawal.

Among the German paratroopers who landed on the first day was former world heavyweight champion boxer Max Schmeling, who held the rank of Gefreiter at the time. Schmeling will survive the battle and the war.