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Message: <blockquote data-quote="crazybuddy" data-source="post: 17575865" data-attributes="member: 326070">                                                                                <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/10247214_582368528559610_2824750584754595948_n-jpg.187192/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           German soldiers in a posed photo on or soon after the invasion of Tallinn, the capitol of Estonia, 28th August 1941. German forces started its Tallinn Offensive on 19th August 1941,  capturing Rapla on 21st August. They reached Tallinn outskirts in Pirita  on 24th August and Harku and Lasnamäe on 26th August . Ordinary  citizens were ordered to build defenses around Tallinn. Soviet forces  started evacuating by sea on 24th August . Of the 195 ships, that left  Tallinn and Paldiski, 55 were sunk by mines near Juminda Peninsula,  killing around 15,000 evacuees. Evacuating Soviet forces destroyed much  of the infrastructure and industry around Tallinn. German forces  captured Paldiski and Tallinn on 28th August, shooting down the Soviet  Flag on Tallinn Pikk Hermann Tower. Estonians replaced it with the Flag  of Estonia, but it was replaced with the Flag of Germany on the next  day. German forces were greeted as liberators in Tallinn. It was also  the first time since 1219 that Tallinn had been captured by a military  engagement.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/1463959_581731151956681_5736197224582723942_n-jpg.187193/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           A jeep manned by Sergeant Albert 'Joe' Schofield (from Manchester) and  Trooper Oliver Jeavons (from Hendon) of 1 SAS near Geilenkirchen in  Germany. The Willys MB jeep is armed with three Vickers 'K' guns, and  fitted with armoured glass shields in place of a windscreen. The SAS  were involved at this time in clearing snipers in the 43rd Wessex  Division area. 18th November 1944.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/156088_581301508666312_83848765079553961_n-jpg.187194/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           Two British Airborne troopers dug in near Oosterbeek, Holland on 18th  September 1944, showing the woodland fought in on the western side of  the British perimeter. By September 1944, Allied forces had successfully broken out of their  Normandy beachhead and pursued shattered German forces across northern  France and Belgium. Field Marshal Montgomery proposed a bold plan to  head north through the Dutch Gelderland, bypassing the German Siegfried  line defenses and opening a route into the German industrial heartland  of the Ruhr. Initially proposed as a British and Polish operation  codenamed Comet, the plan was soon expanded to involve most of the First  Allied Airborne Army in what would be the biggest airborne assault in  history reinforced by a ground advance into the Netherlands, codenamed  Market Garden. Montgomery's plan involved dropping the U.S. 101st Airborne Division to  capture key bridges around Eindhoven, the 82nd Airborne Division to  secure key crossings around Nijmegen, and the British 1st Airborne  Division, with the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade attached, to  capture three bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem. The British Second  Army, led by XXX Corps would advance up the "Airborne corridor",  securing the Airborne Division's positions and crossing the Rhine within  two days. If successful the plan would open the door to Germany and  hopefully force an end to the war in Europe by the end of the year. The fierce battle went on for 9 days with both sides making advances and  retreats before an eventual full retreat by allied forces. The Allies' failure to secure a bridge over the Lower Rhine spelled the  end of Market Garden. While all other objectives had been achieved, the  failure to secure the Arnhem road bridge over the Rhine meant that the  operation failed in its ultimate objective. Field Marshal Montgomery  claimed that the operation was 90% successful and the Allies did possess  a deep salient into German occupied territory that was quickly  reinforced, however the losses were catastrophic for the British  airborne, something it would never recover from during the remainder of  the war. Allied Airborne Unit losses: British 1st Airborne 8,969 - Total troops involved. 1,174 - Killed in action or died of wounds. 5,903 - Captured or missing. 1,892 - Safely withdrawn. British Glider Pilot Regiment 1,262 - Total troops involved. 219 - Killed in action or died of wounds. 511 - Captured or missing. 532 - Safely withdrawn. Polish Brigade 1,689 - Total troops involved. 92 - Killed in action or died of wounds. 111 - Captured or missing. 1,486 - Safely withdrawn. German casualty figures are less complete than those of the Allies, and  official figures have never been released. A signal possibly sent by II  SS Panzer Corps on 27 September listed 3,300 casualties (1,300 killed  and 2,000 injured) around Arnhem and Oosterbeek.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/1150900_580440322085764_4537930081952344554_n-png.187195/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           A British Army Churchill IV (NA 75) tank of 'A' Squadron, 'The North  Irish Horse' attached to the 25th Tank Brigade passing through Via XX  Settembre, a narrow street in Montefiore Conca in Rimini, Italy on the  11th September 1944.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/251791_580172272112569_5179303581404775450_n-jpg.187196/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           A Soviet artillery section of a 45-mm anti-tank gun M1942 (M-42) seen  here in what looks like a training exercise under cover of a  smokescreen. c.1943. These guns were used from 1942 until the end of the war. In 1943, due to  its insufficient anti-armor capabilities against new German tanks such  as Tiger, Panther and Panzer IV Ausf H, the M-42 was partially replaced  in mass production by more powerful 57 mm ZiS-2 anti-tank gun. The total number produced up to 1945 was 10,843.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/10384220_580143088782154_6502741946089696921_n-jpg.187197/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           Three Germans (on the right is a Panzer commander) pose with a knocked  out French AMC Somua S 35 Command tank (serial Nº 10664) somewhere on  the Western Front (maybe Arras) during the 'Fall of France' in May/June  1940.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/10711026_579409218855541_5287931528045921714_n-jpg.187198/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           American soldiers of the 274th or 275th Inf. Regt., 70th Infantry  Division of the US 7th Army display a Nazi flag and a portrait of Adolf  Hitler, outside of a cafe in Hohenzollernstraße, Saarbrücken, Germany  after the capture of the city on the 22nd of March 1945.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/10687090_579061672223629_2431664959316998641_n-jpg.187199/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           Lance Corporals A Burton and L Barnett, Corps of Military Police, 6th  Airborne Divisional Provost Company, guarding a road junction near  Ranville, Normandy on the 9th of June 1944. Horsa gliders can be seen in the field behind. L/Cpl C.G. Bunting, a fellow 6th Airborne MP, died in the Ranville area on the same day, the 9th June 1944.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/10670121_578818435581286_1779605448829565605_n-jpg.187200/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           Panzerjäger I 4.7cm PaK(t) (Sf) auf Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf B tank  destroyer, probably with panzerjäger abteilung sfl 521 on the Western  Front in France 1940. The 'Panzerjäger I' was the first tracked tank destroyer to be produced  in Germany. It was created by removing the turret from an obsolete  Panzer I Ausf B light tank and replacing it with a mounting for a 4.7cm  Czech anti-tank gun. This gun was protected by on three sides by a  14.5mm armoured gun shield, but was open at the rear. Eighty six rounds  of anti-tank ammunition were carried. The gun had a very limited degree  field of fire – 17.5 degrees to either side of the forward position. Anti-tank Battalion 521 (Eastern Front) July 1941 "The effective range of the 4.7 cm Pak(t) is 1,000 to 1,200 metres  (1,100 to 1,300 yd) with a maximum range of 1,500 metres (1,600 yd).  When attacking an enemy position equipped with anti-tank guns and  artillery, as occurred near Mogilev and Rogachev, because of its high  superstructure that presents a good target for artillery and anti-tank  guns, the Panzerjäger is destroyed before it can get into action." "When large shells explode close-by, fragments penetrate the thin armor,  as occurred near Rogachev. Russian 4.5 cm (1.8 in) anti-tank guns  already penetrate at 1,200 metres (1,300 yd) range. The 1. Kompanie lost  5 out of the 10 vehicles (Kampffahrzeuge) in such actions, of which  only two could be repaired."            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/10635838_578568198939643_4094206493690240211_n-jpg.187201/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />           Troops from the 101st Airborne with full packs and a bazooka, in a C-47  just before take-off from RAF Upottery Airfield to Normandy, France for  "Operation Chicago. 5th June 1944. Additional ID: (F-Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne  Division underway to Normandy aboard their C-47 #12. At 01.20 hours they  jumped over DZ "C" (Hiesville). L to R: William G. Olanie, Frank D.  Griffin, Robert J. "Bob" Noody, Lester T. Hegland. This photo took on a  life of its own after publishment. In the picture Bob remembers he must  have weighed at least 250 lbs, encumbered with his M-1 rifle, a bazooka,  three rockets, land mines, and other assorted "necessities".) The division, as part of the VII Corps assault, jumped in the dark  morning before H-Hour to seize positions west of Utah Beach. As the  assault force approached the French coast, it encountered fog and  antiaircraft fire, which forced some of the planes to break formation.  Paratroopers from both the 82d and 101st Airborne Divisions missed their  landing zones and were scattered over wide areas. From 00.15 in the darkness of June 6, 1944, when Capt. Frank L.  Lillyman, Skaneateles, N.Y., leader of the Pathfinder group, became the  first American soldier to touch French soil, and for 33 successive days  the 101st Airborne carried the attack to the enemy.            <img src="http://forum.goregrish.com/attachments/10614370_578445708951892_1173013926847052912_n-jpg.187202/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                                                           </blockquote>

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