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Two refitted M5A1's after seeing action at Bastogne-Noville. Dieuze, 19 January 1945.
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Two refitted M5A1's after seeing action at Bastogne-Noville. Dieuze, 19 January 1945.
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« Last post by RAnDOOm on 24-04-2024, 18:04:04 »
FRIDAY , April 26th, 18hUTC , the map FOY will be played in the Forgotten Hope 2 Campaign The Last Winter
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"In 20 December 1944, during the German Ardennes offensive, the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich took the town of Foy from 1st Battalion, US 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, US 101st Airborne Division, suffering heavy losses in the process; 500-1,000 German troops and 30 tanks were lost, while 199 US soldiers and 13 officers were lost. The American paratroopers, including Easy Company, counterattacked on 9 January 1945 with assistance from artillery, and they repelled a counterattack at 4:15 AM on 14 January 1945.
The Germans later sent in 14 tanks and a whole battalion to retake the town, and they succeeded. However, the Americans counterattacked at 9:30 AM, and they suffered significant losses due to a lack of cover in the open and snowy fields and during the house-to-house fighting. The Americans were eventually able to retake the town with the help of the US 11th Armored Division, and the Germans were forced back one last time, leaving the town in American hands.
The Germans later sent in 14 tanks and a whole battalion to retake the town, and they succeeded. However, the Americans counterattacked at 9:30 AM, and they suffered significant losses due to a lack of cover in the open and snowy fields and during the house-to-house fighting. The Americans were eventually able to retake the town with the help of the US 11th Armored Division, and the Germans were forced back one last time, leaving the town in American hands.
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« Last post by nysä on 24-04-2024, 17:04:04 »
StuG III Ausf. F (L/43) of StuG.Abt. 201.
Image credit: Akira Takiguchi.
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« Last post by nysä on 23-04-2024, 05:04:44 »
Flak train captured in Germany, 2 May 1945.
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« Last post by nysä on 22-04-2024, 10:04:24 »
The Galicia Division.
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« Last post by nysä on 21-04-2024, 08:04:16 »
Streckenschutzzug "Berlin" at its final destination - the south of Seelow (Vorwerk Ludwigslust; modern-day Friedersdorf, Vierlinden) - after being destroyed by Soviet aircraft and artillery on 16-17 April 1945. Fairly intact looking Panther Ausf. A has been secured to the flatbed with steel cables.
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Track protection train "Berlin" was built by Krupp-Drunckenmüller in Berlin-Tempelhof and it left the factory on 12 February 1945 to operate between Ludwigslust and Werbig.
The train had five flatcars with immobile Panthers, "tanks equipped with 88mm guns", and/or disabled Panzer IV Ausf. Hs. Reportedly, about 56 Soviet tanks were claimed by the train. Krupp-Drunckenmüller also prepared 22 damaged Pz IV and Panthers for the Panzer-Kompanie (bodenständig) "Berlin".
Source: "Marshal Zhukov at the Oder" by Tony Le Tissier, "PanzerZug!" by Glen Coomber and "Panzers in Berlin 1945".
The train had five flatcars with immobile Panthers, "tanks equipped with 88mm guns", and/or disabled Panzer IV Ausf. Hs. Reportedly, about 56 Soviet tanks were claimed by the train. Krupp-Drunckenmüller also prepared 22 damaged Pz IV and Panthers for the Panzer-Kompanie (bodenständig) "Berlin".
Source: "Marshal Zhukov at the Oder" by Tony Le Tissier, "PanzerZug!" by Glen Coomber and "Panzers in Berlin 1945".
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« Last post by nysä on 20-04-2024, 13:04:57 »
Panzer IV L/70(V) wreck in Ardennes, January 1945. This one was built in October 1944, complete with 'ambush camouflage'.
Trivia-bit: at the start of the Ardennes Offensive there were 210 Panzer IV/70(V) available with the units, reinforced by another 90 in early '45.