The Petsamo Kirkenes Operation
DOWNLOAD
Download The Petsamo Kirkenes Operation PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Petsamo Kirkenes Operation book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Petsamo Kirkenes Operation
DOWNLOAD
Author : James F. Gebhardt
language : en
Publisher: Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
Release Date : 2011-03-01
The Petsamo Kirkenes Operation written by James F. Gebhardt and has been published by Militarybookshop.CompanyUK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with History categories.
Originally published in 1989, this a volume from the Combat Studies Institute "Leavenworth Papers" series. In the fall of 1944, some 56,000 German troops of the XIX Mountain Corps were occupying a strongpoint line just 70 kilometers northwest of Murmansk, about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. To clear these enemy forces from Soviet territory, STA VKA ordered General K. A. Meretskov's Karelian Front to plan and conduct an offensive, which was to be supported by Admiral A. G. Golovko's Northern Fleet. This Leavenworth Paper explains the planning and conduct of this offensive, known in Soviet military historiography as the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation. The Soviet force of approximately 96,000 men was organized into a main attack force of two rifle corps, a corps- size economy-of-force formation, and two envelopment forces, one consisting of two naval infantry brigades and the other of two light rifle corps of two brigades each. The Soviets employed over 2,100 tubes of artillery and mortars, used 110 tanks and self-propelled guns, and enjoyed overwhelming air superiority. Engineer special-purpose troops infiltrated up to fifty kilometers behind German forward positions to conduct reconnaissance before the battle. On 7 October 1944, the Soviets began the offensive with a 97,000-round artillery preparation, followed by an infantry attack.
Thepetsamo Kirkenes Operation
DOWNLOAD
Author : James F. Gebhardt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Thepetsamo Kirkenes Operation written by James F. Gebhardt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Petsamo Kirkenes Operation
DOWNLOAD
Author : Gebhardt
language : en
Publisher: United States Government Printing
Release Date : 1989-12-01
Petsamo Kirkenes Operation written by Gebhardt and has been published by United States Government Printing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-12-01 with categories.
Petsamo And Kirkenes 1944
DOWNLOAD
Author : David Greentree
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-10-31
Petsamo And Kirkenes 1944 written by David Greentree and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-31 with History categories.
This title examines the bitter conflict between two highly tactical armies as they battled across challenging terrain to gain control of strategically significant Northern Finland. On the one side were the invading Soviet troops, hoping to liberate an area full of rich resources and littered with bases that that would enable the arrival of Arctic convoys from Britain. They employed naval infantry in abundance, not only to make amphibious landings to capture strategically significant port facilities, but also on deep outflanking manoeuvres inland. Their opponents were the elite Gebirgsjäger from XIX Gebirgskorps; trained to be self-sufficient and resourceful and equipped with a range of bespoke weaponry, this mountain division was ideally suited to operate in the harsh climate. Combat conditions were unique: the extremely rough terrain, laced with bogs, streams, boulder fields, and large rivers, presented a significant challenge in its own right, even without the added threat of attacks by highly trained soldiers. This illustrated title tells the story of this unique and bitter struggle in the far North, an epic battle between two elite forces fighting in a demanding environment. With bird's-eye views and maps of key battlefields, this is a comprehensive guide to one of the most challenging campaigns of the Eastern Front.
German Northern Theater Of Operations 1940 1945 Illustrated Edition
DOWNLOAD
Author : Earl Ziemke
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06
German Northern Theater Of Operations 1940 1945 Illustrated Edition written by Earl Ziemke and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
[Includes 23 maps and 31 illustrations] This volume describes two campaigns that the Germans conducted in their Northern Theater of Operations. The first they launched, on 9 April 1940, against Denmark and Norway. The second they conducted out of Finland in partnership with the Finns against the Soviet Union. The latter campaign began on 22 June 1941 and ended in the winter of 1944-45 after the Finnish Government had sued for peace. The scene of these campaigns by the end of 1941 stretched from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean and from Bergen on the west coast of Norway, to Petrozavodsk, the former capital of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. It faced east into the Soviet Union on a 700-mile-long front, and west on a 1,300-mile sea frontier. Hitler regarded this theater as the keystone of his empire, and, after 1941, maintained in it two armies totaling over a half million men. In spite of its vast area and the effort and worry which Hitler lavished on it, the Northern Theater throughout most of the war constituted something of a military backwater. The major operations which took place in the theater were overshadowed by events on other fronts, and public attention focused on the theaters in which the strategically decisive operations were expected to take place. Remoteness, German security measures, and the Russians’ well-known penchant for secrecy combined to keep information concerning the Northern Theater down to a mere trickle, much of that inaccurate. Since the war, through official and private publications, a great deal more has become known. The present volume is based in the main on the greatest remaining source of unexploited information, the captured German military and naval records. In addition a number of the participants on the German side have very generously contributed from their personal knowledge and experience.
The German Campaign In Russia
DOWNLOAD
Author : George E. Blau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
The German Campaign In Russia written by George E. Blau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Finland Germany And The Soviet Union 1940 1941
DOWNLOAD
Author : Hans Peter Krosby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Finland Germany And The Soviet Union 1940 1941 written by Hans Peter Krosby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.
The Red Army And The Second World War
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alexander Hill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Red Army And The Second World War written by Alexander Hill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
A major new account of the Soviet Union at war which charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army.
Miracle At The Litza
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alf R. Jacobsen
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2017-08-19
Miracle At The Litza written by Alf R. Jacobsen and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-19 with History categories.
The dramatic story of the Nazis’ 1941 attempt to take Murmansk, including firsthand accounts of the action on the front line. In the early summer of 1941, German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out from northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would ensure Hitler supplies of nickel from Finnish mines and bring the strategically important port city of Murmansk under German control. The roadless rocky terrain and extreme weather created major challenges for the German troop movements. Despite this, Dietl’s men made quick gains on his Russian foe, and they came closer to Murmansk. Despite repeated warnings of a German attack, Stalin had failed to mobilize, and the British hesitated to come to the rescue of the Red Army. But while the weather conditions steadily worsened, the Russians’ resistance increased. Three bloody efforts to force the river Litza were repulsed, and the offensive would develop into a nightmare for the inadequately equipped German soldiers. In an exciting and authoritative narrative based on previously unpublished material, Alf Reidar Jacobsen describes the heavy fighting that would lead to Hitler’s first defeat on the Eastern Front. With firsthand accounts of the fighting on the front line, this is a dramatic new account of a forgotten but bloody episode of World War II.
Petsamo And Kirkenes 1944
DOWNLOAD
Author : David Greentree
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-10-31
Petsamo And Kirkenes 1944 written by David Greentree and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-31 with History categories.
This title examines the bitter conflict between two highly tactical armies as they battled across challenging terrain to gain control of strategically significant Northern Finland. On the one side were the invading Soviet troops, hoping to liberate an area full of rich resources and littered with bases that that would enable the arrival of Arctic convoys from Britain. They employed naval infantry in abundance, not only to make amphibious landings to capture strategically significant port facilities, but also on deep outflanking manoeuvres inland. Their opponents were the elite Gebirgsjäger from XIX Gebirgskorps; trained to be self-sufficient and resourceful and equipped with a range of bespoke weaponry, this mountain division was ideally suited to operate in the harsh climate. Combat conditions were unique: the extremely rough terrain, laced with bogs, streams, boulder fields, and large rivers, presented a significant challenge in its own right, even without the added threat of attacks by highly trained soldiers. This illustrated title tells the story of this unique and bitter struggle in the far North, an epic battle between two elite forces fighting in a demanding environment. With bird's-eye views and maps of key battlefields, this is a comprehensive guide to one of the most challenging campaigns of the Eastern Front.