RARE WW2 BATTLE DAMAGED "Battlefield Dug" TRENCH FOUND "Blown apart by Explosive Shrapnel" RUSSIAN SNIPER SN-42 ARMOR Complete Relic Set ! Shrapnel or Explosion Struck Breastplate ! This matched set of RUSSIAN "SN-42 " Armor Set was ( Recovered Historic STALINGRAD ! )

Here is a fantastic battlefield dug Russian SN-42 Body Armor recovered from Historic Stalingrad. With upper and
lower Vital Organ sections with wicked battle damage and shock from an explosion blowing half of the upper plate in half !  proving the uselessness of these shields. An incredible relic! The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943. It was among the largest on the Eastern Front and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It was amongst the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million deaths. In its defeat, the crippling losses suffered by Germany's military proved to be insurmountable for the war. The battle was a turning point in the war, after which the German forces attained no further strategic victories in the East.The German offensive to capture Stalingrad commenced in late summer 1942, supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing which reduced much of the city to rubble. The German offensive eventually became bogged down in house-to-house fighting; and despite controlling over 90% of the city at times, the Wehrmacht was unable to dislodge the last Soviet defenders clinging tenaciously to the west bank of the Volga River. LOA Provided / Free US Shipping / Instalments Available so it doesnt get away ! 

$390

RARE  WW2 "Battlefield" Dug RELIC German "Wehrmacht" Zundapp "Nummernschild" Front  Fender German MOTORCYCLE LICENSE PLATE ! with faint inspection stamp barely visible  ( Recovered STALINGRAD )

Here is a fantastic battlefield excavated German WW2 Wehrmacht Motorcycle Front Fender Plate that was dug Historic Stalingrad. Both sides have crisp numerals that are rarely seen !  The business side has detailed numerals visible as well as a faint inspection stamp.These are highly collectible relics ! The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943. It was among the largest on the Eastern Front and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It was amongst the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million deaths. In its defeat, the crippling losses suffered by Germany's military proved to be insurmountable for the war. The battle was a turning point in the war, after which the German forces attained no further strategic victories in the East.The German offensive to capture Stalingrad commenced in late summer 1942, supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing which reduced much of the city to rubble. The German offensive eventually became bogged down in house-to-house fighting; and despite controlling over 90% of the city at times, the Wehrmacht was unable to dislodge the last Soviet defenders clinging tenaciously to the west bank of the Volga River. LOA Provided / Free US Shipping / Layaway Instalments Available !

$ 780

INCREDIBLE Historic WW2 D-Day D-DAY Normandy - Battlefield Dug US Medical "MEDICS" Bottles Collection "Battle-Damaged" from either an explosion or extreme heat shock from an artillery or air strike to melt them !  Recovered Sainte -Sauveur -le-Vicomte Normandy - Positions of the 97th Evac Field Hospital 3 miles from the front lines ( US 82nd Airborne and 9th Infantry Div. )

Here is a spectacular Historic WW2 Collection of D-DAY US Medical / Apothecary Bottles Dug at Sainte-Saveur-le-Vicomte Normandy in positions of the 97th Evac Field Hospital . Some bottles still visible stamp to base T C W co USA ( T C Wheaton Co, Millville, New Jersey)   The Battle of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte occurred on 16 June 1944 during Operation Overlord in World War II. The battle saw the US 82nd Airborne Division, with the help of a regiment of the US 9th Infantry Division and a tank battalion, capture the fortress of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte from the Germans.  The Americans were preparing to take Cherbourg by mid-June 1944, and they initially planned to advance up the western coast of the Cotentin Peninsula. The 82nd Airborne was ordered to secure the town of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, a fortress that stood in the way of the Allied advance. At 5:00 AM on 16 June 1944, Roy E. Lindquist's 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment rushed to attack the German defenses on the heights to the east of the village, but the German 265th Infantry Division's resolute defense prevented them from breaking through. The 325th Glider Infantry Regiment and a tank squadron succeeded in breaking through the German front lines, and 82nd Airborne commander Matthew Ridgway ordered the 325th's 1st Battalion under Major Teddy H. Sanford to cross the bridge and secure the approaches southwest of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte. The Germans, who, by that point, had largely retreated, did not offer much resistance. The American sappers succeeded in creating a crossing point over the Douve River, and US forces crossed the Douve at Saint-Sauveur a day later.The battle was notable for the participation of some volunteers from other units. A squad of paratroops from the US 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment commanded by Sergeant Joseph Hartsock, who had been dispatched by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick F. Cassidy to deliver captured German plans to the 82nd, volunteered to assist the 82nd in its push into town. They failed to capture a bridge on the right flank of the St. Sauveur mill house after the 6th Fallschirmjaeger Regiment blew the bridge, and the American armor was held back by Flak 88 guns. However, Hartsock's squad succeeded in eliminating the Flak guns and enabled the 82nd to move into town. The 502nd squad proceeded to battle its way through the war-torn streets of Saint-Sauveur, fighting house-to-house and clearing the Germans of the elite 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division from their various defensive positions. They had to outflank several machine-gun and tank positions before eliminating the guns and blasting the tanks with captured Panzerschrecks. The tanks inflicted heavy losses on the Americans, but the paratroops succeeded in destroying several of them before setting off orange flares, requesting air and ground support. It was at this point that the Americans destroyed the German garrison of Saint-Sauveur. The capture of St. Sauveur enabled the US Army's infantry divisions to advance on to Cherbourg, which fell on 30 June 1944 after a long siege. Colonel S.L.A. Marshall would refer to Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte as "the fortress on the hill" after the battle, having interviewed Hartsock and several other US soldiers who had fought at the battle. The 97th Evac Hospital was assigned an area for establishment of the Hospital 3 miles northwest of St-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, where it officially opened on 21 June 1944. During this initial phase of operations, the drive for Cherbourg was in progress and the position was accepting casualties from the east flank of the operation. The site of the Hospital at that time was approximately 20 miles northwest of the nearest Evacuation Hospital and about 16 miles south of Cherbourg. The heaviest rate of casualties was registered in the period ranging from 22 to 26 June inclusive. 515 cases were received between 1800 hrs (22 June) and 1200 hrs (23 June); in barely a period of 18 hours. Auxiliary Surgical Teams were attached to the unit from 21 to 25 June, including additional EM detached from other units in the neighborhood.   LOA Provided / Free US Shipping / Monthly Instalments Available !

$ 280  for the lot !

HISTORIC RARE AND IMPORTANT !  WW2 US American SHERMAN TANK "Tankers Helmet" Ear Piece Section Relic Historically Battle Damaged  in a display case ( Recovered Battle of the Bulge / Ardennes ) 

Here is a rare chance to own a Battlefield Dug US "Battle Damaged" Leather Tankers Helmet Ear Section from the Bulge Battlefield. I always sell these reluctantly as they are so hard to find anymore in any collection and I get chills at the historical significance of these artifacts and the sacrifice of these brave men. The Battle of the Bulge (16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945) was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. The surprise attack caught the Allied forces completely off guard. United States forces bore the brunt of the attack and incurred their highest casualties for any operation during the war. The battle also severely depleted Germany's armored forces on the western front, and Germany was largely unable to replace them. German personnel, and later Luftwaffe aircraft (in the concluding stages of the engagement), also sustained heavy lossesIn the pre-dawn hours of 16 December, Pioneers and a battalion of Panzergrenadiers crossed the Our river in rubber boats in order to capture the village of Marnach. This was meant to clear the road from Dasburg towards Clerf and further towards Bastogne, but the soldiers of the US 28th Infantry Division entrenched there held the village stubbornly. Only in the evening, when Pioneers finished a 60-ton bridge, were the division’s tanks able to cross the Our and join the fight. The defenders were then slowly pushed back. In the morning hours of 17 December an advance guard reached the town of Clerf, less than two miles west of Marnach and headquarters of the US 110th Infantry Regiment. The advance guard was stopped by Shermans of the 707th Tank Battalion. They lost four Panzer IV tanks in the fight, but destroyed three Shermans in return. The defenders of Clerf were furthermore reinforced by a tank company of the US 9th Armored Division, but in the evening all the American Sherman tanks were either destroyed or forced to retreat. Clerf was finally captured. On 18 December what was left of the 110th Infantry Regiment was forced to withdraw to the west. However, the stiff resistance of the 28th Infantry Division had played havoc with the German timetable.
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$ 190

RARE WW2 Battlefield Dug Relic Trench Art Matchbox Holder - 23. PANZER Tank DIVISION with Soldat Initials !
Here is a very unique relic find ! A 23. Panzer Division Matchbox holder made from downed aircraft Aluminum and engraved with the motife of the 23. Panzer Tank Division and the Soldat Initials dated 1943. Incredible beadwork ! 
The 23rd Panzer Division was established on the 21st of September 1941 in France. It was built around the 101st Panzer Brigade and two infantry regiments and initially equipped with "booty tanks" which were soon after exchanged for German tanks. In March 1942, the division went to the Eastern Front near Kharkov as a subdivision of the German Sixth Army. It was to remain within the Army Group South for the major part of its service.The division took part in the German advance to the Caucasus, but was subsequently sent north to Stalingrad. It escaped encirclement when the 6th Army was trapped there, and took part in the subsequent failed relief attempt. At the end of its first year on the Eastern Front the 23rd Panzer Division had lost 90 percent of its tanks. On 20 November 1943, 23rd Panzer Division possessed 27 tanks, of which 16 were operational. The 23rd Panzer Division was part of the German defence and retreat in the southern Ukraine, frequently being moved between crisis points. Between April and July 1944 it was a part of the 8th Army within the Army Group South Ukraine defending the area to the north of Jassy. After being sent to Poland in mid-1944, the division returned to the southern sector during the collapse of the German frontline in Romania. After the retreat into Hungary the division fought in defensive battles there. The majority of the division was trapped and destroyed in Székesfehérvár in March 1945. The remainder of the division surrendered to British forces in May 1945.  LOA Provided / Free US Shipping / Instalments Available!
$ 240

HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE RELIC - WW2 Original German 116th PANZER TANK "WINDHUND" Greyhound DIVISION Officers Hat INSIGNIA Device recovered from the Hurtgen Forest - ( Still has some remaining Feldgrau Paint in the background recesses ! ) 

A very rare Battlefield dug relic Panzer Division Hat Insignia of the "WINDHUND" 116th Panzer Division that with sew holes and the clearly see the background stippling to confirm authenticity. This is an insignia that saw warfare in the storied 116 Panzer Division.  The 116th Division was constituted in the Rhineland and Westphalia areas of western Germany in March 1944 from the remnants of the 16th Panzergrenadier Division, and the 179th Reserve Panzer Division. The 16th had suffered heavy casualties in combat on the Eastern Front near Stalingrad, and the 179th was a second-line formation that had been on occupation duty in France since 1943.In 1944, it participated in opposing the Normandy landings, the Battle of Normandy, and was later trapped in the Falaise Pocket. The 116th then participated in the failed "Wacht am Rhein" Operation in the Ardennes. On December 10, before the offensive, it was partly refitted, with 26 Panzer IV and 43 Panther tanks and 25 Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyers (of which 13 were combat ready). However, it was still missing much of its organic transport. Initially stalled by resistance and then poor bridges in attacks to cross the Our River at Luetzkampen and Ouren,it back-tracked to march through Belgium from Dasburg to Houffalize. The division then fought its way as the middle spearhead of the advance on the Meuse from Samree to La Roche then heavy fighting at Hotton and Verdenne where it was turned back at its furthest advance in the Ardennes. Along with the 2nd SS Panzer Division, it was responsible for holding the pocket open to allow German troops to escape. It managed to escape, although with only 600 infantry and 12 tanks intact. In October, it fought against American forces in the Battle of Aachen, with the town falling to the Americans on 21 October. It was moved to Düsseldorf for refitting. On 8 November, the division repulsed an attack from the U.S. 28th Infantry Division in the Hürtgen Forest during the larger Battle of Hürtgen Forest, recapturing the town of Schmidt, thus providing the name to the 28th of the "Bloody Bucket Division".It later held the Allies at bay for other units to retreat, before being withdrawn over the Rhine in March. It then opposed the U.S. Ninth Army's advance across the Rhine, thus stopping the planned Allied breakthrough as well as opposing Operation Varsity's airborne landings. With 2,800 men and 10 tanks against 50,000 Allied troops and supporting tanks, the division faced the U.S. 30th, the U.S. 35th, the U.S. 84th, the 4th Canadian and the U.S. 8th Armored Divisions. On 18 April 1945, the majority of the division was forced to surrender to the U.S. Ninth Army, having been trapped in the Ruhr Pocket. Remnants of the division continued to fight in the Harz mountains until 30 April, only surrendering after all of their resources had been exhausted.

$ 280

INCREDIBLE CONSIGNMENT RELIC - RARE Large and Impressive WW2 German "WEHRMACHT" ARMY Large Vehicle "KRAFTWAGEN" Rear LICENSE PLATE  ( Recovered Historic STALINGRAD ! )

Rare and Highly Collectible German WW2 Wehrmact Large Vehicle Rear License Plate that was recovered Historic Stalingrad ! Still has wiring, and camo paint remaining on mounting which is rarely seen. This is a huge license plate for an Armoured vehicle.  The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943)  was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) inSouthern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe. Marked by constant close quarters combat and direct assaults on civilians by air raids, it is often regarded as one of the single largest (nearly 2.2 million personnel) and bloodiest (1.7–2 million wounded, killed or captured) battles in the history of warfare. The heavy losses inflicted on the German Wehrmacht make it arguably the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war.  It was a turning point in the European theatre of World War II; German forces never regained the initiative in the East and withdrew a vast military force from the West to replace their losses. The German offensive to capture Stalingrad began in late summer 1942, using the German 6th Army and elements of the4th Panzer Army. The attack was supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing that reduced much of the city to rubble. The fighting degenerated into house-to-house fighting, and both sides poured reinforcements into the city. By mid-November 1942, the Germans had pushed the Soviet defenders back at great cost into narrow zones generally along the west bank of the Volga River.  LOA Provided / Shipping Flat $60 /  Monthly Instalments Available !

$ 980

WOW !!  A Chance to own an affordable piece of one of the Most highly sought after of All WWII Wehrmacht Nazi COLLECTIBLES !  Battlefield Excavated GERMAN Cipher Code "NAZI ENIGMA MACHINE" A pair of Enigma Machine Letter Key Peg Stems  ! - Recovered HISTORIC "Konigsberg " 

Here is another relic from my personal collection that is an affordable example of a historic collectible!  Battlefield Excavated near Konigsberg this is an extremely rare WW2 Wehrmacht Enigma Machine Letter Key Stem pair !  These impressive artifacts and any part of an Original Enigma Machine are the most sought after of all wwII relics. Enigma machines were ordered to be destroyed upon retreat to prevent them from falling into Allied hands. Enigma machine parts sell in the thousands of dollars and Enigma machines for just under a quarter of a million dollars ! The actual Battle of Königsberg lasted four days only, but it was a bitter and bloody battle. The encircled German forces put up stiff resistance bolstered by Königsberg’s formidable fortifications, a defence system comprising three rings of forts which had been constructed at the end of the 19th century, some modernised and reinforced, and all heavily supplemented with anti-tank systems and landmines.The assault began at dawn on 6 April 1945. Intense artillery shelling, which followed several days of bombing by the Soviet air force, was the immediate precursor to the first stage of the city’s invasion. By the fourth day of the attack, 9 April 1945, the Soviet army had breached the enemy’s main defences and in a punishing feat of urban warfare ~ building by building, street by street ~ was bearing down on what remained of the enemy entrenched at the heart of the city. Although both in numbers and fire power German resources were not yet totally depleted, Otto Lasch, Fortress Commandant of Königsberg, in direct contradiction of Hitler’s orders, realising that all was lost, initiated his army’s surrender. Negotiations were implemented and the surrender of the defenders of Königsberg and Königsberg itself was finally ratified just before midnight in Otto Lasch’s control bunker.  LOA Provided / $8 Shipping / 

$ 90 

IMPORTANT HISTORICAL MUSEUM-WORTHY ARTIFACT FIND !  Original D-DAY WWII "Dive Recovered Seabed Fossilized 20mm US Shell embedded in seabed !  ( Recovered Omaha Beach )

Here is an absolutely fascinating unique and historic museum artifact relic ! An original D-DAY Omaha Beach dive recovered 20mm shell round embedded in fossilozed seabed ,with seashells attached and encrused !  this artifact was recovered in the 1980s in a slavage expedition. commonly known as Omaha, was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II. Omaha is located on the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel, and is 5 miles (8 km) long, from east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the right bank of the Douve River estuary. Landings here were necessary in order to link up the British landings to the east at Gold with the American landing to the west at Utah, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the Normandy coast of the Bay of the Seine. Taking Omaha was to be the responsibility of United States Army troops, with sea transport and naval artillery support provided by the U.S. Navy and elements of the British Royal Navy. On D-Day, the untested 29th Infantry Division, joined by the veteran 1st Infantry Division and nine companies of U.S. Army Rangers redirected from Pointe du Hoc, were to assault the western half of the beach. The battle-hardened 1st Infantry Division was given the eastern half. The initial assault waves, consisting of tanks, infantry, and combat engineer forces, were carefully planned to reduce the coastal defenses and allow the larger ships of the follow-up waves to land.  LOA Provided / Free US Shipping /  Installments Available !

$ 220

VERY COOL FIND !  Highly Cross Collectible  WW2 Battlefield Dug Relic Wehrmacht Driver Proficiency Award Insignia
( Recovered Stalingrad Eastern Front )

Ok here is a unique relic that I picked up from a digger in Stalingrad. A German Driver Proficiency Award !  The Drivers badge was issued to drivers of all types of vehicles including motorcycles, trucks, command cars and armoured vehicles. The award was only issued after you had served and driven for a certain period of time, each type of vehicle had a different length of time before you could be issued the award for example a motorcycle despatch rider would need 90 days of service but a supply truck driver would need 165 days of service.  After you had received the award you would be expected to maintain your vehicle to a high standard or the award could be taken away.Fantastic WW2 Collectible from a wicked historic battlefield. Don't let this one get away ! The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943. It was among the largest on the Eastern Front and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It was amongst the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million deaths. In its defeat, the crippling losses suffered by Germany's military proved to be insurmountable for the war. The battle was a turning point in the war, after which the German forces attained no further strategic victories in the East.The German offensive to capture Stalingrad commenced in late summer 1942, supported by intensive Luftwaffe bombing which reduced much of the city to rubble. The German offensive eventually became bogged down in house-to-house fighting; and despite controlling over 90% of the city at times, the Wehrmacht was unable to dislodge the last Soviet defenders clinging tenaciously to the west bank of the Volga River.   LOA Provided / Free US Shipping ! 

$ 59

INCREDIBLE HISTORIC Lot of WWI Battlefield Dug Relic German  EGG GRENADE Marked !  - ( Recovered Ypres, Flanders Fields, Belgium )

Here is an incredible consignment collection of WWI grenades that were recovered Belgium, Ypres Battlefield. The First Battle of Ypres, also called the First Battle of Flanders was a First World War battle fought for the strategically important town of Ypres in western Belgium in October and November 1914. The German and Western Allied attempts to secure the town from enemy occupation included a series of further battles in and around the West Flanders Belgian municipality.The strategy of both the Allied and German armies is not entirely clear. The accepted and mainstream reasoning for the Ypres battle was the British desire to secure the English Channel ports and the British Army's supply lines; Ypres was the last major obstacle to the German advance on Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais. The French strategy was to prevent German forces from outflanking the Allied front from the north. This was the last major German option, after their defeats at the First Battle of the Aisne and First Battle of the Marne. The Ypres campaign became the culmination of the Race to the Sea. The opposing armies engaged in offensive operations until a big German offensive in mid-October, which forced the Allies onto the strategic defensive and limited to counter-attacks.  Free Shipping / LOA Provided / Instalments Available 
    $ 370 

HUGE LOT OF WW2 Battlefield Dug Relic Wehrmacht Mauser Rifle Casings ( Recovered Operation Market Garden Eindhoven and Arnhem ) Selling in groups of 5 !

Here is a large lot of WW2 Mauser Rifle Casings recovered from the Market Garden campaign. Fantastic for display .. Headstamps visible on most ..On 5 September, Model's forces were bolstered by the arrival of the II SS Panzer Corps, which consisted of the 9th SS and 10th SS Panzer Divisions under the command of Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich. The Corps had been reduced to approximately 6,000–7,000 men, 20–30% of its original strength in the course of continuous action since late June including in the Falaise pocket; losses in officers and NCOs had been especially high Model ordered the two divisions to rest and refit in 'safe' areas behind the new German line; these areas coincidentally were to be Eindhoven and Arnhem.The 10th SS Panzer Division was to be restored to full strength in order to provide an armoured reserve and thus the 9th SS Panzer Division was ordered to transfer all of its heavy equipment to its sister division; it was intended that the 9th would then be transported to Germany for replenishment.At the time of Operation Market-Garden, the 10th SS Panzer Division had an approximate strength of 3,000 men; an armoured infantry regiment, divisional reconnaissance battalion, two artillery battalions and an engineer battalion, all partially motorized.Other formations were appearing to strengthen the German defences. Between 16 and 17 September two infantry divisions from Fifteenth Army assembled in Brabant, understrength but well-equipped and able to act as a reserve. Near Eindhoven and Arnhem a number of scratch formations were being assembled. Several SS units, including an NCO training battalion and a panzergrenadier reserve battalion, were being prepared to enter combat and Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine personnel were being grouped into Fliegerhorst and Schiffstammabteilung formations. There were also a number of training battalions that were being equipped, several depot battalions from the Hermann Goering Panzer Division and various artillery, anti-aircraft and field police units scattered throughout the north of the Netherlands. incredible relics !

5 casings for $29 shipped! Free shipping within the US.

RARE to Find from Battlefield ! WW2 Battlefield found relic US GAS MASK that was Recovered Historic Battle of the Bulge - 99th US Infantry Division 393rd Regiment Northeast of Rocherath 

n early December, the 2nd Infantry Division was assigned to capture a vital crossroads marked by a customs house and a forester’s lodge named Wahlerscheid, at the southern tip of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. They transitioned through the 99th division's lines and after a deadly, costly battle, captured the crossroads. But the Germans counterattacked in what the Americans initially thought was a localized spoiling action, but was actually a leading element of the Battle of the Bulge. The 2nd ID consolidated their lines, pulling back into Hünningen, and then to the twin villages of Rocherath-Krinkelt, and finally at the dug-in positions held by the 99th ID at Elsenborn Ridge. In a fierce battle lasting 10 days, the American and German lines were often confused. During the first three days, the battle was for the twin villages of Rocherath-Krinkelt, during which American G.I.s were at times isolated in individual buildings surrounded by German armor. Attacking Elsenborn Ridge itself, the Germans, although superior in numbers, were stopped by the Americans' well-prepared and deeply dug-in defensive positions. General Robertson's plan for moving his 2d Division south was to "skin the cat," pulling the most advanced battalions in the Wahlerscheid sector back through the others. In addition to the main supply road, a part of the division could use the secondary route running more or less parallel to the Wahlerscheid road until the two met at a fork about a mile north of Rocherath.The 395th Infantry was in the woods east of the northernmost section of the 2d Division withdrawal route and would provide cover for the first stage of the tricky move parallel to and close behind the rapidly deteriorating front. Then too the enemy at the Wahlerscheid road junction seemed hardly strong or aggressive enough to make even a daylight disengagement difficult.The danger zone would be the twin villages. Roads from the east led into Rocherath and Krinkelt. And, to the east, as information from the 99th Division rifle battalions warned, the Germans had made a deep penetration and were liable at any moment to come bursting out of the forest. Rocherath and Krinkelt had to be held if the 2d Division was to reach the Elsenborn position intact and with its heavy weapons and vehicles. The 99th Division had long since thrown its last reserve into the battle; therefore the 2d Division (with the attached 395th) alone had to provide for the defense of this endangered sector of the corridor south. The leading company, now alone, entered Rocherath at dusk but found no guides and marched on through the next village until met by bullet fire. Twice the company doubled back on its trail until finally found by the battalion executive and directed to the proper position. Company B arriving about 2130, moved in on the left of Company A but was still on the surface (not having had time to entrench) when German tanks and infantry struck from the northeast at Krinkelt. Company A, well dug in and with all its weapons emplaced, let the tanks roll past and then took on the infantry. Its neighbor, Company B, exposed and without its supporting weapons, was riddled, only one platoon managing to escape. The Company B survivors, joined by what was left of Company C, fell back to the regimental command post in Rocherath and joined the antitank company in the street fight raging there.Back at Krinkelt three German tanks with infantry clinging to their decks got into the eastern streets: with this foothold won more Germans appeared as the night went on. The fight for Krinkelt surged back and forth, building to building, hedgerow to hedgerow. Men on both sides were captured and recaptured as the tide of battle turned. A German attempt to seize the heavy-walled church on the northern edge of the village was beaten off by the reconnaissance company of the 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion, which had lost a platoon at Büllingen during the morning. The communications officer of the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry, 1st Lt. Jesse Morrow, knocked out a tank with only a rifle grenade. (Morrow later was awarded the DSC.) The situation in Krinkelt was further confused by retreating troops from the 99th Division, intermixed as they were with the infiltrating enemy. One German, using a captured American to give the password, got past two outposts, but a sentry finally killed both men. At midnight a column of 99th Infantry vehicles started pouring through the town and continued the rest of the night.At Rocherath, the Germans who had so boldly entered the village earlier in the evening destroyed three American tanks as these inched their way out of the village to help Company K of the 38th Infantry. Here too the fight was bitter and confused. At one time a battalion commander of the 38th was reported to have men from sixteen different companies fighting under his command. By midnight, however, the enemy tanks behind the American lines had been accounted for and the German infantrymen captured or killed. When the wild night of fighting drew to a close, the Americans still were in control of the two villages and the near sector of the Wahlerscheid withdrawal. Your chance to own a piece of WW2 US legendary history..  LOA Provided / Free US Shipping / Installments available 

$ 620

RARE WWII Lot of Dug RELIC Found US P-38 20mm Cannon Shells ! 

RARE WW2 Battlefield Dug Relic Wehrmacht "MUSHROOM" Division Insignia of the 205. Infanterie Division - ( Recovered Kurland Pocket Surrender Site of Army Group North ) 

The 205th Infantry Division (German: 205. Infanterie-Division) was a German division during the Second World War.Initially formed as the 14th Militia Division (German: 14. Landwehr Division), the division was mobilized a few days before the invasion of Poland in 1939, and remained on garrison duty in Germany throughout that campaign. It was the only Landwehr unit mobilized during 1939-1945 (others that were mobilized were reorganized as 3rd-Wave-style divisions), though the 97th Landwehr Division had been mobilized for the 1938 Anschluss.It was renamed the 205th Infantry Division on January 1, 1940 and sent to France near the end of the western campaign. It was demobilized in July, but mobilized again in early 1941, and served as a garrison against potential any Allied invasion until early 1942. It was then sent to the Russian Front, where it served with Army Group Center in the "little Stalingrad" at Velikiye Luki over the winter of 1942-1943. The division was transferred to Army Group North in late 1943 and eventually trapped in the Courland Pocket, where it surrendered to the Soviets in 1945.    LOA Provided / $7 shipping 
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RARE WW2 Battlefield Found  WAFFEN-SS "NORGE" Norwegian Legion / SS Division Nordland / Viking Dragon Ship Insignia - Recovered Kurland Pocket 
Here is a spectacular Divisional Pin Insignia of the SS-Norwegion Legion "Norge" with pin intact ! Recovered at the Surrender Site of Army Group North. The unit was formed from volunteers who were assured that it would be a Norwegian unit with Norwegian officers, uniforms and language and that its area of operations would be Finland. Instead, the unit was deployed to Northern Russia in the occupied Soviet Union, in the Army Group North Rear Area. This was done by the Germans to avoid reinforcing any Norwegian territorial claims to the Kola peninsula and the Finnish Petsamo region, which were desired by the Quisling regime. Initially, Quisling hoped to deploy over 30,000 Norwegian legionaries to Finnish Lapland, but this was rejected by both the Germans and the Finns. Coming under the control of the 2 SS Infantry Brigade, the Legion was stationed at Krasnoye Selo near Leningrad in February 1942. In May 1942, the unit was withdrawn, returning in June 1942. The Legion left the occupied Soviet Union in 1943, having suffered over 180 casualties in a year. During that period, it had been reinforced by the 1 SS and Police Company under the command of the head of the paramilitary Norges SS, Jonas Lie. The Legion was disbanded in March 1943. The personnel who wanted to continue the SS service were transferred to the SS Division Nordland 
Tannenberg Line - Kurland Pocket
The Tannenberg Line anchored on three strategic hills. Running west to east, these were known as Hill 69.9, Grenadier Hill and Orphanage Hill. From Orphanage Hill, the rear side of the town of Narva could be protected.
From 27 July, Nordland fought alongside Sturmbrigade Langemarck and Kampfgruppe Strachwitz from the Grossdeutschland Division to keep control of Orphanage Hill. Despite the death of the Nordland's commander, SS-Gruppenführer Fritz Scholz, who was killed in the fighting, and the subsequent deaths of the commanders of Norge and Danmark regiments, the division grimly held onto Orphanage hill, destroying 113 tanks on July 29th.
On the 4th of August, men from Penal Company 103, a punishment company, were reinstated and absorbed into the Danmark regiment. The III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps bled itself white defending the Tannenberg Line, until on September 16th it was pulled back into Latvia to defend the capital, Riga. Riga fell on 12 October, and by the end of the month all Waffen SS units had been withdrawn into what was known as the Kurland Pocket.
From late October to December 1944, the Nordland fought fierce defensive battles in the pocket, and by early December the divisional strength was down to 9,000 men. In January 1945, the division was ordered to the Baltic port of Libau, where it was shipped out of the pocket to Pomerania. The division disembarked at Stettin, with the Panzer Abt Hermann von Salza being sent on to Gothafen for refitting. In late January, Nordland was assigned to Steiner's 11th SS Panzer Army, which was now forming in anticipation of the defense of Berlin.  LOA Provided / Free US Shipping / Instalments Available ! 

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RARE "Battlefield Dug" German Wehrmacht "121. Infanterie Division"  "EAGLE - KNIGHT"  Zinc Insignia Badge ! 

Here is a very rare find !  A Battlefield dug relic German Wehrmacht "Eagle Knight" 121st Infantry Division Insignia Pin made of zinc missing pinback. The 121st was part of the 28th Corps of Army Group North. At the start of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Courland, along with the rest of the Baltic, was overrun by Army Group North headed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb. In 1944, the Red Army lifted the siege of Leningrad and re-conquered the Baltic area along with much of Ukraine and Belarus. However, some 200,000 German troops held out in Courland. With their backs to the Baltic Sea. they were trapped in what became known as the Courland Pocket, blockaded by the Red Army and the Red Baltic Fleet. Colonel-General Heinz Guderian, the Chief of the German General Staff, insisted to Adolf Hitler that the troops in Courland should be evacuated by sea and used for the defense of Germany. Hitler refused, and ordered the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine forces in Courland to continue the defence of the area. Hitler believed them necessary to protect Kriegsmarine submarine bases along the Baltic coast. On January 15, 1945, Army Group Courland (Heeresgruppe Kurland) was formed under Colonel-General Dr. Lothar Rendulic The blockade by elements of the Leningrad Front remained until May 8, 1945, when the Army Group Courland, then under its last commander, Colonel-General Carl Hilpert, surrendered to Marshal Leonid Govorov, the commander of the Leningrad Front (reinforced by elements of the 2nd Baltic Front) on the Courland perimeter. At this time the group consisted of the remnants of some 31 divisions. After May 9, 1945, approximately 203,000 troops of Army Group Courland began moving to Soviet prison camps in the East. The majority of them never returned to Germany.  LOA Provided / Free US Shipping 

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WOW ! Absolutely Impressive RARE WW2 "Battlefield" Dug German Wehrmacht Flammenwerfer-35 "FLAMETHROWER" BATTLE-DAMAGED Relic FlameTube Internal Part and Valve Hose Section Lot !  
( Recovered Battlefield Stalingrad  ) 

Here is an extremely rare battlefield dug relic German WW2 Battlefield Dug Flammenwerfer-35 Flamethrower tube and valve hose section  from Historic Stalingrad !  I have never had an opportunity to own one of these ultra-rare relics and not too anxious to part with it. The Flamethrower was first used by the Germans in World War I. But by World War II the Axis and allies were using flamethrowers. The German flamethrower was used against fortifications or entrenched positions. The flamethrower was highly feared. The flamethrower was very heavy and if hit by explosives, shrapnel, bullets, or anything extra, the Operator would go up in flames. The flamethrower was a very dangerous role in the armies. The flamethrower had two tanks one held a flammable liquid the other nitrogen (sometimes differed). But when two pushed together through a tube it ignited and caused the flame. The flamethrower weighed about 79 pounds. The Flammenwerfer 35, or FmW 35 (flame thrower) was a one-man German flamethrower used during World War II to clear out trenches and buildings. It could project fuel up to 25 metres from the user.It weighed 35.8 kilograms (79 lb), and held 11.8 litres (2.6 imp gal; 3.1 US gal) of flaming oil, (Flammöl 19), petrol mixed with tar to make it heavier and to give it better range, which was ignited by a hydrogen torch providing about 10 seconds of continuous use. The firing device is activated at the same time with the Selbstschlussventil and is inside the protective pipe. The Flammenwerfer 35 was produced until 1941, when the lighter, slightly redesigned Flammenwerfer 41 began replacing it. Though initially successful, the German attacks stalled in the face of Soviet reinforcements brought in from across the Volga. The 13th Guards Rifle Division, assigned to counterattack at the Mamayev Kurgan and at Railway Station No. 1 suffered particularly heavy losses. Over 30 percent of its soldiers were killed in the first 24 hours, and just 320 out of the original 10,000 survived the entire battle. Both objectives were retaken, but only temporarily. The railway station changed hands 14 times in six hours. By the following evening, the 13th Guards Rifle Division had ceased to exist.Combat raged for three days at the giant grain elevator in the south of the city. About fifty Red Army defenders, cut off from resupply, held the position for five days and fought off ten different assaults before running out of ammunition and water. Only forty dead Soviet fighters were found, though the Germans had thought there were many more due to the intensity of resistance. The Soviets burned large amounts of grain during their retreat in order to deny the enemy food. Paulus chose the grain elevator and silos as the symbol of Stalingrad for a patch he was having designed to commemorate the battle after a German victory. 

Bitter fighting raged for every ruin, street, factory, house, basement, and staircase. Even the sewers were the sites of firefights. The Germans, calling this unseen urban warfare Rattenkrieg ("Rat War"), bitterly joked about capturing the kitchen but still fighting for the living room and the bedroom. Buildings had to be cleared room by room through the bombed-out debris of residential neighborhoods, office blocks, basements and apartment high-rises. Some of the taller buildings, blasted into roofless shells by earlier German aerial bombardment, saw floor-by-floor, close quarters combat, with the Germans and Soviets on alternate levels, firing at each other through holes in the floors. Fighting on and around Mamayev Kurgan, a prominent hill above the city, was particularly merciless; indeed, the position changed hands many times.  LOA Provided / Included US Shipping / Instalments Available

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EXTREMELY RARE Wehrmacht INSIGNIA !  122. Infantry Division "Greif" Griffon Talon - Recovered Surrender Site of Army Group North ! 

Here is a really cool Insignia Pin recovery from Kurland Pocket. A Truppeninternes Abzeichen der 122. Infanterie Division 'Greif'. The 122nd Infantry Division of the German Army, which fought on the Eastern Front during World War II. It surrendered to the Soviet forces in Kurland at the end of the war. It is constructed out of a die struck zinc base that has been silver washed. The obverse features a Giffon talon belo2w “Greif” all in a shield shape. The full back reverse features a soldered on tombak round plate that holds a well working pin assembly. It shows loss of its silver wash. It measures 7/8 of an inch tall by 11/16 of an inch wide. A unique piece!  I have seen these sell upwards of 350 euro in this condition in the past and tough to find. LOA provided / Monthly Instalments Available / Free US Shipping 

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Ground Dug BATTLEFIELD Wehrmacht Hitler Youth HJ Proficiency Badge RZM Marked ! Broken Pin  - ( Recovered Bastogne, Battlefield 12th SS HJ Positions )

Very cool relic and rare WWII German HJ Hitler Youth Proficiency Award Badge RZM and maker marked pin broken in battle ! Hitlerjugend was given a brief respite, but received virtually no reinforcements or equipment. The division was soon thrown back into battle, and took part in the fighting withdrawal to the Franco-Belgian border. By September 1944, the division counted less than 2,000 men, without armour or heavy equipment. On 6 September, Kurt Meyer was captured by Belgian partisans. Meyer had removed his SS uniform and was wearing the uniform of a regular German army officer. In the confusion of the withdrawal, the division was unable to undertake a rescue attempt. SS-Obersturmbannführer Hubert Meyer was placed in command of the division.In November 1944, the division was pulled out of the line and sent to Neinburg in Germany, where it was to be reformed. The majority of the much-needed reinforcements were transferred Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine personnel, and the reformed division would never match the elite status it had boasted in the spring of 1944. Late in the month, Hubert Meyer was replaced by SS-Obersturmbannführer Hugo Kraas, and the division was attached to SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich's 6.SS-Panzer-Armee, which was forming up for Operation Wacht Am Rhein (the Second Battle of the Ardennes, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge), a large-scale offensive to recapture Antwerp and halt the Allied advance.The operation opened on 16 December 1944. Kampfgruppe Peiper from the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler led the assault, breaking through the enemy lines. The HJ, which was to follow the Kampfgruppe and exploit the breakthrough, became bogged down in traffic jams caused by the 12.Volksgrenadier-Division. When the division reached the front, it was met with heavy resistance from American troops stationed on the Elsenborn Ridge. Despite several intense efforts, the division could not budge the American defenders. As a result, the division was ordered to swing left and follow the advance line of the remainder of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. American defenders prevented the division from reaching its objective, and after the destruction of Kampfgruppe Peiper, the advance of Dietrich's army altogether. Near the end of the year, the HJ was shifted south to take part in the efforts to capture Bastogne, and saw heavy fighting around the city. By 18 January 1945, the HJ, along with all the German forces, had been pushed back to its starting positions. Don't let this rare opportunity get away to add historic Bastogne SS soldier artifacts to your personal collection.  Bastogne Battlefield Recovered 12TH SS HITLER JUGEND Positions.  LOA Provided / Free US Shipping ! / 

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SPECTACULAR HISTORIC RELIC !  US M1 GARAND Rifle En-Bloc Clip RELIC Excavated Historic "BATTLE OF THE BULGE" 

Here is the last En-Bloc clip of the Battle of the Bulge recovered collection !  a relic that you don't see available for sale if rarely ever with this history !  This historic M1 Garand Rifle Dug Relic En Bloc Clip from positions Battle of the Bulge ! 

Summary of Combat Operations. The 422d Inf. went into combat in the Schnee-Eifel Area of Germany on 10 December 1944. On 16 December, the regiment was hit by the German Ardennes counter-offensive, and was quickly cut off. Several sectors of the regimental zone received heavy artillery fire and ground attacks, all of which were repulsed. Co. "L" and CN Co. counter-attacked towards AUW on the afternoon of 16 December and prevented the Regimental CP, AT Co. and Cn Co. arms from being overrun. On the night of 17 December, 2d Bn was swung around facing north, to meet a threat from strong enemy forces which had outflanked us. On 18 December, orders by radio from Division Headquarters directed the 422d Inf., in conjunction with the 423d Inf., to attack and destroy enemy forces at Schonberg, and continue along the Schonberg St. Vith road and clear the enemy from that road, which was originally our principal supply route. Meanwhile, the 7th and 9th Armored Divisions were committed in the vicinity of St. Vith, where the 106th Div. CP and other installations had been located, but they were unable to stop the German drive at that point. The 422d Inf. made an extremely well-executed crow-country withdrawal during the day and night of 18 December, to assembly position southeast of Schonberg, and attacked towards Schonberg on the morning of 19 December. They quickly came under small arms and artillery fire from several directions, and the 1st Bn., on the right, was attacked by tanks and part of the Bn was cut off and captured. The 2d and 3d Bns continued the attack towards Schonberg and came under intense fire from several types of weapons of a large enemy antiaircraft unit, which inflicted heavy casualties and knocked out a number of our mortars and machine guns. The 423d Inf on our left had sustained heavy casualties, was badly disorganized, and later was almost entirely captured or surrendered. In the afternoon of 19 December, having had no resupply of food or ammunition, or evacuation of casualties for the past four days, Colonel Descheneaux decided to surrender that part of the regiment. Parts of the 1st Bn, Co "G", Co "H", and men from other units found their way to the Regimental Motor Park, and held out until 21 December. Co "L" escaped almost intact through the German encirclement, and moved west, but ran into enemy positions on the night of 20 December, and were captured after sustaining many casualties. The majority of the vehicles and personnel of Regt Hq Co, AT Co and Cn Co, which had remained in the assembly area, tried to force a way out to the west, but ran into mine fields and artillery fire and were captured or surrendered. All of the regiment was killed or captured except 9 officers and about 70 men. The regiment was re-constituted in France on 10 April 1945, and has since rejoined the 106th Division. Events after Capture. Most of the regiment was marched about 50 km to Gerolstein and from there was marched or moved by box car further into Germany. A large part of the officers and men went to Bad Orb. Others were scattered throughout German POW Camps.   As to our part, after we were cut off we were ordered to leave our position on Schnee-Eiffel and to attack and destroy a German Panzer Combat Team on the Schonberg St. Vith Road, after which we were to proceed to St. Vith and then west from there. We were almost entirely surrounded and in order to reach Schonberg we had to move across country. I was separated from you not long after capture, and with few exceptions, have seen none of you since. It was only after my arrival here, and through correspondence with officers and men of the various companies, that I have been able to get a fairly complete picture of many details of the attack. We ran into a trap near Schonberg and were subjected to heavy fire from nearly all directions and by tanks and artillery. By the afternoon it became evident that the accomplishment of our mission was impossible. It became further evident that there was little we could do to help any operation. The paramount question became that of saving the lives of as many of you men as possible and every possible action to accomplish this was discussed. Our situation was rendered hopeless by our great distance behind our lines, the weather, our ammunition supply, and many other factors. And so, though my spirit revolted against such a decision, surrender seemed to be the only solution to avoid needless loss of life and further suffering. I am convinced that there was nothing else to do and I know that opinion is shared by most every one of you.

It is my sincere desire, and that of all our officers, to secure the recognition and awards which no many of you richly deserve for gallantry and meritorious service. This may be slow, due to administrative difficulties, but you may be sure that many deserving cases will be recommended for awards as soon as full information can be secured in proper form. The Combat Infantryman Badge was awarded to all Infantrymen of the Regiment and the Medical Badge to members of the Medical Detachment, and Regimental Colors of the 422d Inf recently were appropriately decorated as a Combat Regiment at a Division Review in the ETO.  LOA Provided / Free US Shipping !

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IMPORTANT HISTORICAL ARTIFACT FIND !  Original D-DAY WWII Battle Damaged Dug Relic US M1 Fixed Bale HELMET SHELL with Shock Damage ! ( Recovered Omaha Beach )

Here is a highly desireable, near impossible to find anymore, and honestly hard to part with, original D-Day Normandy Invasion US M1 Omaha Beach Found Helmet with shock damage to the crown !  most likely of the 1st Division troops. The helmet is a fixed bale has a section on the back that appears to be battle damage as well as a shock strike on the crown and still has original Omaha Beach Sand Remains ! This helmet is from a collection and was recovered in the 1980s during beach salvage efforts. Omaha Beach, commonly known as Omaha, was the code name for one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II. Omaha is located on the coast of Normandy, France, facing the English Channel, and is 5 miles (8 km) long, from east of Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes to west of Vierville-sur-Mer on the right bank of the Douve River estuary. Landings here were necessary in order to link up the British landings to the east at Gold with the American landing to the west at Utah, thus providing a continuous lodgement on the Normandy coast of the Bay of the Seine. Taking Omaha was to be the responsibility of United States Army troops, with sea transport and naval artillery support provided by the U.S. Navy and elements of the British Royal Navy. On D-Day, the untested 29th Infantry Division, joined by the veteran 1st Infantry Division and nine companies of U.S. Army Rangers redirected from Pointe du Hoc, were to assault the western half of the beach. The battle-hardened 1st Infantry Division was given the eastern half. The initial assault waves, consisting of tanks, infantry, and combat engineer forces, were carefully planned to reduce the coastal defenses and allow the larger ships of the follow-up waves to land.  LOA Provided / Free US Shipping / Instalments Available 

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EXTREMELY RARE WW2 Battlefield Dug Wehrmacht Relic LEGENDARY "SPANISH 250th BLUE ( AZUL )  Infantry Division" Falange Breast Insignia  ( Recovered Historic Kurland Pocket  ) 

Here is a spectacular find, even more so in relic found condition. Have only had one other example in the last 20 years.!  A very rare WW2 Spanish Blue Insignia broken pin and lost in battle, this insignia was there !!  and was recovered Kurland Pocket ! On the frigid morning of Feb. 10, 1943, the 5,900 soldiers of the 250th “Blue” Infantry Division — Spanish volunteers fighting for the Axis on the Eastern Front of World War II — were sitting in their trenches and dugouts when the high-explosive shells fired from hundreds of Soviet artillery pieces fell from the sky. For those soldiers, the world turned into fire.Two hours later, three Soviet infantry divisions stormed into the Axis defensive positions, marking the beginning of the battle of Krasny Bor, an obscure but significant battle near Leningrad — still under siege at this point — which culminated in an Axis victory at the cost of the Blue Division, which was virtually destroyed. Krasny Bor was part of the larger Soviet offensive Operation Polar Star, the brainchild of Gen. Georgy Zhukov following the success two weeks earlier of Operation Iska, which opened a short land — and soon rail — corridor into Leningrad, bringing badly needed supplies into the city. Polar Star was far more ambitious, however, and Zhukov tasked three Soviet fronts with doing no less than punching through to the Baltic states in another example of Soviet “deep operations,” trapping and annihilating Germany’s Army Group North in the forests south of Leningrad. A second objective was to cut off the nearby Demyansk salient, a thumb-shaped protrusion deep inside Soviet lines.  Krasny Bor, situated 20 miles southeast of Leningrad’s city center, was a strategic point near the highway connecting besieged Leningrad to Moscow. It was here that the Blue Division sat when the artillery of Gen. Vladimir Sviridov’s 55th Army — some 38,000 soldiers combined — rained down.  The first day of the battle became known as “Black Wednesday” for the Spanish. The battle was bloodier for the Soviets, who may have suffered some 20,000 casualties after penetrating five kilometers into Axis lines before the offensive stalled out. A comprehensive day-by-day summary and descriptions of the specific units involved is available at Steven’s Balagan, a website dedicated to Spanish and Portuguese military history.The 55th Army running out of steam halted operations on this important flank of Operation Polar Star, which ground to a bloody halt in other sectors as well. However, the Soviet defeat did not discredit the strategy of deep operations as the Red Army would rely on it for its later offensives. If Krasny Bor and Polar Star were victories for the Axis, they were Pyrrhic ones.Three quarters of the Blue Division’s troops were dead, wounded or had been taken prisoner, effectively ending the division as a fighting force, and the survivors soon retired to Spain by way of Germany. In January 1944, the Soviets fully lifted the siege of Leningrad in a massive push by more than 800,000 soldiers and more than 500 tanks. In the winter of 1943/44, the Blue Legion of Spanish volunteers (formerly part of the Blue Division, dissovled in late 1943) was initially attached to the 121st Division before its dissolution in March 1944      Free US Shipping / Layaway Instalments Available 
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