It is often believed the 1940-45 German Army highly mechanized. This is very far from the truth. Mechanization mostly reached the Panzerdivisions, but infantry divisions and their organic components (like artillery) were not. They depended onhorse-drawncarriages for the most and infantry was on ...
Whilst the Italian occupation divisions were equipped with a number of Italian-built armored cars and tanks, almost all also had improvised armored personnel carriers used to patrol the most important roads to escort convoys. These improvisations were made mostly on Italian-built trucks, such as ...
The Sd.Kfz.251 was a vital troop carrier employed by the advancing panzer divisions. Source: Wiki The Sd.Kfz.251 in Yugoslavia The Sd.Kfz.251 was used for the first time in the Balkans during the occupation of Yugoslavia in April 1941. Following the successful completion of the short so-...
First of all, it should be clearly understood that at the time of the Balkans campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece in early 1941, when we had ten divisions on the entire length of the Soviet border, the Russians had stationed 247 major military formations on our border. After the conclusion of...
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theSoviet naval fortress). The 46.Infanterie, as part of XLIIArmeekorps continued south and then east along the Kerch peninsula toward Feodosiya. As PaulCarell describes “Generalleutnant Count von Sponeck, commanding XLII.Armeekorps, haddispatched his 73rd and 170.Infanterie-divisions to Sevastopol...