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Research Material
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 3:11 am
by jonhooper
Although I've been gaming for years, its usually from the American perspective. Are there any good books out there on German small unit tactics, both armor and infantry? I've bookmarked many internet sites which I've gotten off of this forum, but you can never have too much reading material.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 7:29 am
by Wild Bill
Some pretty good books on this theme would be:
Anvil of War, Tsouras
Fighting in Hell, Rauss-Tsouras
Small Unit Actions during the German Campaign in Russia, CMH
I've found these very helpful. Good scenario ideas, too!..WB
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Matrix Games
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 7:40 am
by jonhooper
Thanks Wild Bill. Seems like I'm saying that alot lately.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 7:45 am
by jonhooper
Thanks Wild Bill. Seems like I'm saying that alot lately.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 8:05 am
by Drake
Since this is a Research Material topic I figgered I would add some more sites that I found really good that you may want to chick out.
France 1940, very nice site
http://members.tripod.com/~France40/index.html#Army
Norway 1940, The best site that I have seen on Norway campaign and one of the best WW2 sites in my mind.
http://hem.fyristorg.com/robertm/norge/
Military Historic Panzer Battles!
A OK site
http://www.xs4all.nl/~gjlingen/
Polish Campaign 1939
Not a bad site, the best I have seen yet on this campaign.
http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/~rzepinsk/1939/index2.htm
Battle of the Bulge
Best site on this battle that I have found.
http://users.skynet.be/bulgecriba/battlebul.htm
The Battles of Winter War
The best site I found on the winter war
http://www.winterwar.com/
This site has a very nice timeline of WW2.
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/main.htm
Just for something deffrent, this is a really nice U-boat site.
http://uboat.net/
A nice site on armour
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/4635/
A nice site devoted to the Panther
http://members.tripod.com/~dietmagic/panther.html
PKKA
Site with some nice info on the Red Army.
http://www.dol.ru/users/hotdog/home.htm
Finland in World War II
A ok site on the Winter War
http://www.hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/finland_wwii.html/
Two of the best map sites I have found.
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/WWIIPages/WWIIEurope/WWIIEToC.htm http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_ww2.html#European
Some nice OOB sites
Armoured Formation Profiles
http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8418/#top
ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY WORLD WAR II
http://www2.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/eto-ob/etoob-toc.htm
WWII Orders of Battle and Organizations
http://www.freeport-tech.com/WWII/000_admin/000oob.htm
A nice armour Pic site
http://www.inf.upol.cz/~stepanos/ww2.html
Some interesting Pics
http://members.nbci.com/KievPapa/germany.htm
WWII Statistics
Some interesting stats.
http://www.angelfire.com/ct/ww2europe/stats.html
A nice site on The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion.
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bsmills/UNIT_HISTORY/unit_history.html
Some interesting info on the normandy compaign at this site.
http://home.swipnet.se/normandy/
Will thats all for now, more thin likely I will add more later.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 8:41 am
by Panzer Capta
Would also highly recommend the works of David Glantz (Eastern Front).
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 9:51 am
by jonhooper
Thanks Drake, guess I'll be up reading most of the night.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 9:53 am
by jonhooper
Originally posted by Panzer Captain:
Would also highly recommend the works of David Glantz (Eastern Front).
I appreciate the information Panzer Captain.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2001 9:44 pm
by Marcus Wendel
Try
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/
A book you might try is "Panzertaktik: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics" by Wolfgang Schneider. I have not read it but it is supposed to be very good.
/Marcus
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2001 2:47 am
by jonhooper
I'll check it out Marcus, thanks.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2001 8:43 pm
by RockinHarry
And still...
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/dl/atoz.htm
Handbook on German Forces (TM 30-410), May 1945, Chaps IV-VII ---> 40,5 MB size download
with some good information on german tactics.
RockinHarry
Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2001 12:31 am
by jonhooper
Originally posted by RockinHarry:
And still...
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi/dl/atoz.htm
Handbook on German Forces (TM 30-410), May 1945, Chaps IV-VII ---> 40,5 MB size download
with some good information on german tactics.
RockinHarry
Outstanding site. Looks like I'll be reading this afternoon.
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 2:50 am
by panda124c
I stumbled arcoss this site the other day
http://members.aol.com/super6th/
6th Armoured Division WWII very interesting the personal account talks about tatical orginization and formations a little.
I wonder, it might be possible to find other WWII histories and sites by searching on the unit.
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 3:12 am
by Wild Bill
Great stuff, guys. Thanks for sharing. And you are very welcome big Jon. I hope you can find those books. Some are out of print.
Wild Bill
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2001 6:11 am
by skukko
Hi, I had time while waiting forum re-open, so, don't forget Feldgrau
http://www.feldgrau.com/
and here is one interesting page, if tactics is your goal:
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/20234/20234.html
and finally good page to start:
http://www.wrightmuseum.org/wwII.htm
mosh
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2001 1:34 pm
by skukko
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2001 1:22 pm
by RockinHarry
А не забывать наших российских товарищей!
http://www.translate.ru/eng/erre.asp
is needed here:
http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=eastfront&id=30&err=2&list
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 8:23 pm
by skukko
http://rkka.domainvalet.com/h-tacts.htm
sovjet armor tactics against Tigers and stugs. Also some nice pics and great attitude
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 10:31 pm
by FWH-Odin
Deserves a bump... goldmine of info!
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 11:24 pm
by Panzer Capta
I find this to be a very useful document......"Handbook On German Military Forces" (Chapter on German Tactics).
It can be found at:
http://hpssimulations.com/support/customfiles.htm#Miscellaneous
It is downloadable too.