http://www.volkskran...fotograaf.dhtml
Six photographs made during Operation Market Garden by Leutnant Seuffert, photograper (Bildberichter) with Luftwaffe Kriegsberichter-Zug 16.
Posted 17 September 2014 - 1506 PM
http://www.volkskran...fotograaf.dhtml
Six photographs made during Operation Market Garden by Leutnant Seuffert, photograper (Bildberichter) with Luftwaffe Kriegsberichter-Zug 16.
Posted 17 September 2014 - 1559 PM
What's the gun on the Stug in #2?
Posted 17 September 2014 - 2049 PM
Looks like a StuH 42 with the 105mm leFH18.
Posted 18 September 2014 - 0954 AM
Nice find Hans, thanks for sharing. Nice pic of a Faustpatrone 30 there, don't see them very often IME.
BillB
Posted 18 September 2014 - 1006 AM
Looks like a StuH 42 with the 105mm leFH18.
Yup, from Sturmgeschutze Brigade 280. Arrived in Arnhem on Tuesday 19 September with 7 x StuG III and 3 x StuH 42G, which were parcelled out to Kampfgruppen Harder & Moeller in the fighting along the Utrechtsestraat and riverside Onderlangs in the western outskirts of the city.
BillB
Posted 18 September 2014 - 1010 AM
The one of the Dakota is spine-chilling...
Posted 18 September 2014 - 1047 AM
The one of the Dakota is spine-chilling...
Indeed. Shame there's no date, I suspect it could be identified if there were.
BillB
Posted 18 September 2014 - 1332 PM
Just finishing Silent Wings about the Glider Assaults and the number of tugs shot down over Arnhem was pretty high, although the first wave did ok as they were far from the target areas.
Posted 18 September 2014 - 1615 PM
Strange .......... but - for me - photographs of Market Garden / Arnheim have a certain aura of " recentness " about them, unlike earlier and later war photos, which could be hundreds years back from today.
Anybody else ? Or is it just me.
Are the photographic techniques different or some other explaination. Perhaps it is the Dutch setting.
Edited by Martin M, 18 September 2014 - 1616 PM.
Posted 18 September 2014 - 2238 PM
Posted 19 September 2014 - 0344 AM
Yes. Even today in parts of Normandy one gets the feeling that William the Conqueror is waiting just around the corner by the look of small towns and villages.It's the Dutch setting. The buildings are a bit more modern in style as compared to the Normandy farm houses.
Edited by Panzermann, 19 September 2014 - 0345 AM.
Posted 19 September 2014 - 0854 AM
Just finishing Silent Wings about the Glider Assaults and the number of tugs shot down over Arnhem was pretty high, although the first wave did ok as they were far from the target areas.
Who is the author of the one you are reading? There are 3 different books titled Silent Wings listed on Amazon.
Posted 19 September 2014 - 1236 PM
If you had the full roll of negatives, you might be able to work out what Dakota it was. The author of Villers Bocage through the lens worked out the location of various photos, just by their position in the original negatives. If one could do the same, then you might just have a shot at working out where the photo was taken, and compare it to crash sites. A long shot I grant you.
What I find intriguing is by the cargo door there is either a white flame inside the aircraft cargo door (whcih is an horrific thought in itself) or someone is still dumping cargo out. Lords Dakota maybe?
Great photos, thanks for sharing.
You wouldn't need to look at photos, not all that many aircraft were lost in the immediate vicinity of Arnhem/Oosterbeek and you could likely track it down from primary records if you had the date. I don't think it's Lord's Dak, he was away over the original LZ/DZs flying in close formation with another machine, and his folded up after a fire on the starboard engine & wing IIRC.
BillB
Posted 19 September 2014 - 1237 PM
Strange .......... but - for me - photographs of Market Garden / Arnheim have a certain aura of " recentness " about them, unlike earlier and later war photos, which could be hundreds years back from today.
Anybody else ? Or is it just me.
Are the photographic techniques different or some other explaination. Perhaps it is the Dutch setting.
Mebbe German cameras, film and photographers were higher quality?
BillB
Posted 19 September 2014 - 1323 PM
Just finishing Silent Wings about the Glider Assaults and the number of tugs shot down over Arnhem was pretty high, although the first wave did ok as they were far from the target areas.
Who is the author of the one you are reading? There are 3 different books titled Silent Wings listed on Amazon.
Gerard M. Devlin , here is a documentary based on the book.
Edited by Colin, 19 September 2014 - 1325 PM.
Posted 20 September 2014 - 0555 AM
Perhaps also of interest:
Market Garden, the suprise attack that failed (video)
Images from the NIMH collection (Netherlands Institute of Military History)
Posted 20 September 2014 - 1052 AM
the book argues 3 reasons things went wrong.
1. DZ to far from objectives
2. failure to appreciate and incorporate intelligence from partizan's about abundant armour in the area
3. Model's knack for reorganizing and commanding the units under his control.
Posted 20 September 2014 - 1126 AM
I'd argue only one thing went wrong - the western front situation was not what the allies believed it to be.
The whole operation seems to have been planned on the basis of it taking place in an almost semi-permissive environment (by WWII standards).
Posted 20 September 2014 - 1312 PM
Edited by shep854, 20 September 2014 - 1314 PM.
Posted 20 September 2014 - 1605 PM
Was that Theirs was the Glory?
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