The Old Man 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Posts: 1,580
Downloads: 29
Uploads: 0
|
Training of boat and crew of U 113 (IXC)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kapitän
Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...
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.
|
Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...
Sunday, 22 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 "Barbarossa":
At around 03:15 on 22 June 1941, the Axis Powers commence the invasion of the Soviet Union with the bombing of major cities in Soviet-occupied Poland and an artillery barrage on Red Army defences on the entire front and the ground attack at 04:00.
We are deploying 153 divisions, which include 104 Infantry, 19 Panzer and 15 Motorized Infantry Divisions in Three Army Groups, four divisions in Finland and two divisions as reserve under the direct control of O.K.H.
These are equipped with 6,867 armored vehicles, of which 3,350–3,795 are tanks, 2,770–4,389 aircraft (that amount to 65 percent of the entire Luftwaffe force), 7,200–23,435 artillery pieces, 17,081 mortars, about 600,000 motor vehicles and 625,000–700,000 horses.
Finland is contributing 14 divisions to the invasion, and Romania will deploy 13 divisions and eight brigades over the course of the operation.
The entire Axis forces, 3.8 million personnel, are deployed across a front extending over 3000 km, from "Finland to the Black Sea".
__________________
KSDII-Ace/GWX 3.0 Gold/CCoM 10.0 + h.sie-patch; Windows 7 (64-bit); NVIDIA GeForce GTX650 (310.90)
|