Batailles & blindes magazine No 65 LES STURMGESCHÜTZ-ABTEILUNGEN
Batailles & blindés 65THE STURMGESCHÜTZ-ABTEILUNGEN In the shadow of the Panzer-Divisionen, but indispensable!
- The Blindorama, Canada 1940-1945 Starting from scratch in September 1939, the Canadian Armoured Army experienced a spectacular boom during the Second World War. After producing the Valentine for Stalin, the country embarked on the construction of its own tanks such as the Ram and the Grizzly, but also other machines such as the Sexton self-propelled artillery, the Kangaroo troop carrier, the Otter armoured car and the Skink anti-aircraft tank that equipped its armoured divisions and brigades. Who would have thought it?
- 1910-1944 BIOGRAPHY ++, Christian Tychsen The fanatical warrior. Enlisted in the SS at a very early age, Christian Tychsen is the archetype of the young wolf of the Black Order. A fanaticism that never wavered, an unparalleled tactical sense, an unfailing heroism, a meteoric rise, so many character traits specific to this officer whose career is inseparable from that of the “Das Reich” division with which he fought in France, in Moscow, Kharkov, Kursk. Before taking command at the age of 34 and perishing in Normandy in July 1944.
- 1944 BATTLE The Hidden Battle of Aachen, The Last American Chance to Cross the Rhine Before Christmas As the Allied armies arrived on the <<Siegfried” Line, the Anglo-American High Command disintegrated, each of the great generals (Montgomery, Collins, Patton, Bradley) seeking to achieve the decisive breakthrough that would allow them to penetrate the Reich and end the war before Christmas. On the Aachen front, this lightness and underestimation paid for themselves when Collins’ V US Corps launched an attack from 12 to 20 September 1944…
- 1939-1945 TACTICS, the Sturmgeschütz-Abteilungen In the shadow of the Panzer-Divisionen, but indispensable! The assault gun units of the German Army demonstrated their usefulness during the French campaign of 1940. Having become indispensable, the batteries, then the Abteilungen, of Sturmgeschütze proved to be increasingly indispensable on the battlefield, especially on the Eastern Front, as these atypical armoured vehicles excelled in infantry support and anti-tank defence. Hugues Wenkin looks back at the structures, tactics and engagements of the StuGe.
- 1945 ANALYSIS, What if the war had lasted another year? Part 1: The myth of the Panzerwaffe’s miracle weapons What would have been the face of the Panzerwaffe if the Second World War had lasted a year? There is nothing to say that the state-of-the-art armoured vehicles often mentioned would have been superior to their Allied counterparts. This 1st part is devoted to the vehicles that would probably have integrated the Panzer-Divisionen and schwere Panzer-Abteilungen, and to the tactical use that would have been made of them. We will discuss the Panzerjäger, the StuGe and the Allied equipment in the next issue.
- 1973 UNIT, Blood, sweat, dust, and tears! The Israeli 14th Brigade during the Yom Kippur War October 6, 1973. While the Syrian Army was attacking in the Golan, the Egyptian Army crossed the Suez Canal and took everything in its path. The Hebrew forts of the 1st line of defense fell one after the other. But the IDF pulled itself together and launched its Magach and Sho’t against Egyptian T-55s and T-62s. The 14th Armoured Brigade spearheaded the defence, then the counter-offensive. It was largely to it that Israel owed its victory in the Sinai.
- 1921-1926 BATTLE, Tanks in Morocco! Spanish Renault FT and Schneider in the Rif Campaign In 1921, the Spanish presence in Morocco was undermined by the rebellion of the charismatic Abd el-Krim. After the disaster of Anoual, which resulted in the death of 13,000 soldiers, Madrid decided to use great means and buy Renault FT and Schneider tanks from France, which were sent there.
