What happened today?

Carl-Yes, the Kesselring photo is back to front-i just had a look at the Swastika!!!

 

OCTOBER 3 1993-9 YEARS SINCE...ENOUGH SAID????

 

'nuff said, Panzer....How are your pages coming along? And have you see the trailer of the upcoming game DELTA FORCE BLACK HAWK DOWN????

 

Thanks for pointing that out guys--I should have looked at the adler longer but didnt. The pic sure is backwards.

 

Thanks for asking Stevin-In fact, I actually started the project again, I didn't like the tone of my writings, so I censored it, and then scrapped it-I'm very busy with school study at the moment-so possibly November as a launch date!

My friend actually told me about the new game but I didn't believe him...well now that this has been confirmed I might have to look inot it abit harder...thanks Stevin...

 

BTW, Panzerknacker, congratulations for your new medal and promotion! And I think this is only the beginning!

 

Ah yes--thanks for pointing that out about Ryan. Congrats!

 

I should have posted this yesterday but had no time.

Hauptmann Reinhard Horning CO of 1st Abt, 546th Inf Rgmt, 389th I.D. recommended for his Knights Cross on Oct 4/ 1942 but actually recieved it on Aug 22/ 1943--for his leadership and bravery at Stalingrad.

 

Did Hptn. Reinhardt Horning escape from Stalingrad or was he awarded the KC posthumously?

 

I dont know.

 

3rd October 1935

Italy invades Abyssinia.

3rd October 1940

The British garrison on Malta is reinforced.

Neville Chamberlain resigns due to ill health.

3rd October 1942

First successful V2 launch

4th October 1940

Hitler and Mussolini meet at the Brenner pass on the Italian/Austrian frontier

4th October 1944

Russian forces and Yugolsav partisans link up.

Operation Manna begins: British Special Forces land in the Peloponnese

5th October 1943

The US Navy begins pre-invasion bombardment of Wake Island

5th october 1944

German Army Group North is threatened by the Russian Armies drive to the Baltic coast

6th October 1939

Polish resistance ceases. Hitler broadcasts his 'offer of peace'

6th October 1943

US forces capture the Solomon Islands

6th October 1944

Canadian forces assault the Breskens pocket

7th October 1940

German troops enter Roumania, occupying the Ploesti oilfields and begin the rebuilding of the Roumanian armed forces

7th October 1941

German forces seal off the Vyasma pocket encircling 6 Soviet Armies, and the Bryansk pocket encircling a further 2 Soviet Armies.

7th October 1943

The US 5th Army reaches the Volturno River, north of Naples

7th October 1944

US bombers based in the Marianas Islands launch their heaviest raids to date on Iwo Jima.

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War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means - von Clausewitz 1933

 

Thankyou Kindly Friedrich-very nice comments there-much obliged....

 

6th October 1944 - a typical Bomber Command night for this stage of the war.

Large raids mounted on both Dortmund and Bremen with clear wether providing perfect conditions for the Pathfinders. Severe damage caused to both targets. Bomber Command fly 947 sorties on this night with only 12 ( 1.3 percent ) failing to return.

With 6 Group providing 293 aircraft, this was the Canadian group's strongest effort of the war.

[ 06 October 2002, 11:05 AM: Message edited by: Martin Bull ]

 

There were 9 claims made this night of Ocotber 6/7 1944. Lt. Teschner of IV./NJG 1 a lanc
Oblt. Brnikhaus of II./NJG 2 a Lanc
Lt. Tschiersch of II./NJG 2 a 4 engine a/c
Ofhr. Allemeier of III./NJG 2 a 4 engine a/c
Uffz. Kinzer of III./NJG 2 a 4 engine a/c
Oblt. Stock at 19.43 hrs. of IV./NJG 3 a Lanc
Hauptmann Ferger scores 2 Lancs, he is from IV./NJG 3.
Oberleutnant Briegleb of IV./NJG 3 score 1 Lanc 5km north of Leer at 20.44 hrs.

 

Two more Knights Crosses awarded for bravery at Stalingrad.

Oberleutnant Klaus Muller CO of 6th KP, 2nd Abt, 2nd Pz Rgmt, 16th Panzer Division.

Hauptmann Helmut Speckenheier CO of 12th Btty, 4th Abt, 3rd Inf Rgmt, 3rd I.D. (Mot)

 

I missed this important one....

1st October 1934

Adolf Hitler orders the expansion of the the German Army and Navy, and the creation of the German Airforce, in direct contravention of the termas of the Treaty of Versailles.

8th October 1940

The Burma Road to Chine is re-opened

8th October 1941

Guderians Panzers capture Orel

9th October 1943

Russian forces occupy the Kuban Peninsula

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" I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes...I really do not see the signal" Nelson, the Battle of Copenhagen.

"This is not a peace treaty. It is an armistice for twenty years" Ferdinand Foch, 1919 at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles

 

I should have posted this on Oct 8th but didnt have the time.

October 8/ 1942--four more Knights Cross awarded at Stalingrad.

Generalleutnant Alexander von Hartmann CO of 71st I.D.

Major Wilhelm Knetsch CO of the 545th Inf Rgmt 398th I.D.

Hauptmann Willy Helmut Reidel CO of 3rd Abt 524th Inf Rgmt 297th I.D.

Generalleutnant Karl Rodenburg CO of 76th I.D.

 

On October 9/ 1943.

General der Pioneer, Erwin Jaenecke CO of 389th I.D. was awarded his Knights Cross at Stalingrad.

 

10 October 1943

One of the bloodiest battles in the air over the Reich. Mission destination was Münster with 236 bombers effective over the target out of 313. Stiff Luftwaffe oppostion resulted in the downing of 30 bombers and claims of JG 1 and 11 plus JG 26 of 12 bombers, 4./JG 3 claimed 2 and the twin engine unit ZG 26 claimed 16. ZG 26 suffered heavily while losing 10 a/c and the other 6 single engine units particpating losing 19 a/c.
So vicious were the attacks that the Bomber gunner claims were overwhelming with 183 German a/c claimed as destroyed and the P-47 escorts claiming another 19 for a loss of 1. German losses were 29 ! The Bloody 100th bomb group suffered the most with 12 B-17's shot down and one landing with CAT E damage as a write off. 390th bomb group lost a total of 8 B-17's and the 95th lost 5 more.......

US bomber crews were starting to really ask themselves if the bombing campaign over Germany was really worth the effort. No other bombing missions will take place until the fateful Schweinfurt raid on the 14th of October......

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And there's a good book written about this raid from the 8th AF perspective called 'Munster : The Way It Was' by Ian L Hawkins.