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The Liberation of Paris, 24/25th of August 1944.
The tank crew of an M4 Sherman of the 2čme Division Blindée, (French 2nd Armoured Division) accept a drink from a Parisien.
Initially, SHAEF was not prepared to spend valuable resources on liberating the Capital city. They were worried that an assault would trigger a brutal street-to-street fight. Genral De Gaulle objected. He threatened that he would order the city to be liberated using the 2čme Division Blindée with or without Allied assistance. Finally they approved, and it was agreed that the Free French forces would lead the way. Leclerc threw the 2éme Division Blindée into a headlong rush towards Paris.
On the 25th of August, Col. Billotte’s Combat Command 3 had reached the Prefecture and captured the garrison commander, General von Choltilz.
General Leclerc received von Choltliz’s surrender, and met De Gaulle at the town hall for liberation speeches, victory parades and general revelry. The celebrations in the capital did not stop even when elements of the division were forced to defend against a last gasp German counterattack on the 26th of August. The failure of this counterattack finally eliminated the last German resistance points and Paris was now firmly in Allied control.
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Poslao: 01 Jan 2015 19:17
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Napisano: 01 Jan 2015 19:16
Panzergrenadier of the 6.Panzer Division use the cover of a Panzerkampfwagen 35(t) during Operation Barbarossa.
c. June 1941.
The 6th Panzer Division was attached to 41st Army Korps, 4th Panzergruppe, Army Group North at the start of the invasion and formed part of the spearhead that thrust towards Leningrad. The division reached the Luga River, the gateway to Leningrad, in just three weeks - a journey of some 500 miles (800 kilometres). The division was taken out of the line after breaching the Leningrad Line in September and ordered to join the attack on Moscow.
On the eve of Operation Barbarossa, 160 took part in 4th Panzer Group's drive to Leningrad. They took massive losses. Only 102 were left operational in September, and only 34 by October. This was due to the lack of spare parts and the need to cannibalise other tanks. By November 1941, no Pz. 35(t) were listed in service.
Note - When the Germans took over Czechoslovakia in March 1939 they managed to seize 244 Škoda-CKD LT vz. 35 vehicles and where renamed 35(t), the letter (t) stood for tschechisch (German: "Czech").
Dopuna: 01 Jan 2015 19:17
Lt John Lee Warner, British Weapon Instructor CBTC (Commando Basic Training Centre), training new US Rangers of the 29th Ranger Battalion in the use of the Thompson M1928A1 SMG.
Commando Basic Training Centre, Achnacarry in the Western Highlands of Scotland.
9th of February 1943.
On Monday, 4 February 1943, ten officers and 166 enlisted men and NCOs of the 29th Infantry Division were sent to Achnacarry, Scotland. The British Commando instructors called this unit, which was undergoing Ranger training, the 2nd Ranger Battalion. However, another American unit also had that designation, so the Rangers in the battalion and the American staff officers called them the 29th Ranger Battalion, named after its division. Major Randy Millholland of the 115th Infantry Regiment, the battalion commanding officer, instructed his men to "keep their eyes and ears open and their mouths shut." Millholland, a tough, energetic officer, was widely respected. The Ranger trainees were immensely proud of their battalion and did not want to be sent back to their old units as instructors in Ranger tactics. Soon after the proud Rangers completed their training, two of them accompanied a raiding force of British Commandos during an attack on one of the Channel Islands. One of these Rangers covered the withdrawal of his group, killing three German soldiers and wounded several others. By the time of this raid, the 29th Battalion had grown to include four Ranger infantry companies and one headquarters company.
Photo credit The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Note: Lt. Lee survived the war and in this image he is wearing the cap badge of the Reconnaissance Corps
over a tartan cloth back ground.
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'Russian Women's Battalion of Death'
1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death
At the end of May 1917, the Minister of War of the Russian Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, authorized the formation of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death in Petrograd. He placed Maria Bochkareva, a peasant woman who had served in the Russian army since November 1914 and had risen to the rank of non-commissioned officer, in command of the unit. This first all-female combat unit initially attracted over 2,000 enlistees between the ages of eighteen and forty, but Bochkareva's strict discipline soon drove out all but about 300 dedicated volunteers.
Called into action against the Germans during the June Offensive, they were assigned to the 525th Kiuruk-Darinski Regiment and occupied an abandoned trench near Smorgon. The battalion pushed past three trenches into German territory, where the trailing Russian army discovered a hidden stash of vodka and became dangerously drunk. The newly-promoted Lieutenant Bochkareva ordered that any further stashes be destroyed. Outnumbered and unsupported, the battalion met stiff resistance from the Germans and were repelled. They returned to their original lines with two hundred prisoners and minimal casualties, six killed and thirty wounded.
German Stormtrooper specialists were sent to Bulgaria in 1916 to train the Bulgarians in assault tactics. There was a dedicated field school outside Sofia which included physical, theoretical and practical combat exercises. Specialized assault units were formed in November/December 1916, later expanded during the heavy fighting for Yarebichina summit in the spring of 1917. By September 1918 the Bulgarian army had two assault druzhinas (battalions), each with a separate mortar, flamethrower and support/service company.
Most Bulgarian assault units were formed in the field ad hoc, usually of volunteers. After a short preparation and training they would perform their mission, usually receiving a short leave upon success. As for their armament, similar to German units (although not as well equipped) - grenades, grenade bundles, close combat weapons and carbines.
(Colourised by Michele Masetti form Italy)
A Brief Bulgarian WW1 History.
On 11th of October 1915, Prime Minister Vasil Radoslavov of Bulgaria issues a statement announcing his country’s entrance into the First World War on the side of the Central Powers.
Secretly courted by both sides in World War I as a potential ally in the tumultuous Balkan region, Bulgaria eventually decided in favor of the Central Powers. In his statement of October 11, 1916, Radoslavov argued that confronting the Allied powers—Britain, France and Russia—alongside Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire was desirable not only for economic reasons, as the latter two countries were Bulgaria’s chief partners in trade, but also as a way for the country to defend itself against the aggression of Serbia, the Russian ally and major power in the Balkans that Radoslavov considered to be his country’s "greatest foe."
"Today we see races that are fighting, not indeed for ideals, but solely for their material interests," Radoslavov maintained. "The more, therefore, we are bound to a country in a material way, the greater is that country's interest in our maintenance and increase, since thereby that one will profit who helps us and is tied to us by economic bonds… The figures show that our trade, our interests, and our economic life are inseparably linked with Turkey, Germany, and Austria-Hungary..."
Bulgaria acted quickly after its declaration of war, invading the Serbian province of Macedonia and in the process driving a wedge in front of Allied forces in Greece in their attempts to aid the Serbian army. In the summer of 1916, Bulgaria invaded and occupied a section of then-neutral Greece, mounting a major offensive in August that was only halted by British aerial and naval attacks. A stalemate ensued until 1918, when the Allies began to put more pressure on the Germans on the Western Front, forcing them to transfer a number of troops from the Salonika front—as the battlegrounds of northern Greece and Macedonia were known—where they had been aiding their Bulgarian allies. Disintegrating morale and growing discontent among the Bulgarian troops and on the home front were compounded by a new Allied offensive, launched in mid-September. On September 24, the Bulgarian government authorised its army’s commander to seek an armistice. Bulgaria formally exited World War I on September 29, 1918, having lost some 90,000 soldiers over the course of the conflict.
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