Afrika Korps (redirect from Afrikakorps)
1941. "Afrikakorps" was the official name of the force for less than six months but the officers and men used it for the duration. The Afrikakorps was the...
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Operation Sonnenblume (section Deutsches Afrikakorps)
December 1940 – 9 February 1941). The first units of the new Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK), commanded by Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel, departed Naples for...
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The Luftwaffe was the air force of Nazi Germany prior to and during World War II. Luftwaffe styles of uniform and rank insignia had many unique features...
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The Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 1. Hermann Göring (1st Paratroop Panzer Division Hermann Göring - abbreviated Fallschirm-Panzer-Div 1 HG) was a German Luftwaffe...
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transported to Libya in April 1941, joining General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK) as one of two German tank divisions in North Africa at the time...
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Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80157-0. Rondeau, Benoit (2013). Afrikakorps, L'Armée de Rommel [Afrikakorps, The Army of Rommel] (in French). Paris: Tallandier....
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when it was one of the two armoured divisions making up the Deutsches Afrikakorps (DAK). It was first formed as the 5th Light Division in early 1941. The...
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revolution in Italy. A. Maclehose & co. p. 221. Williamson, Gordon (1991). Afrikakorps 1941–43. Osprey. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-85532-130-4. Palmer, Michael A. (2010)...
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Moorehead, p. 121 Intelligence and Strategy: Selected Essays, p. 222 Afrikakorps (Third Reich), p. 52 Rommel, p. 141 Playfair, 1960, p. 167 Valour Enshrined:...
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dictionary. DAK is an abbreviation for the Afrika Korps (German: Deutsches Afrikakorps), a famed German World War II unit. DAK, Dak or dak may also refer to:...
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extensive battle honours. During the North African campaign, the German Afrikakorps accorded respect to the Nepalese knife khukri-wielding Gorkhas. Following...
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Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-395-41057-6. Williamson, Gordon (1991). Afrikakorps 1941-43. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-130-0. Zitiert nach Walther...
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and others. The MG 42 was first deployed in May 1942 by the Deutsches Afrikakorps (German Africa Corps expeditionary force in Africa) and introduced by...
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the Wayback Machine. In: Der Feldzug in Afrika 1941–1943 (deutsches-afrikakorps.de). Retrieved 24 November 2009. Quote: Schuld an dieser Einschätzung...
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parties included critical information such as advance warnings of the 'Afrikakorps' departure for Libya, insights into the readiness of Vichy French units...
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Ramcke Parachute Brigade, was sent to North Africa to join Rommel's Afrikakorps. The brigade supported the offensive towards the Suez Canal, but when...
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Operation Sonnenblume). Nazi Germany's General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrikakorps coming from victories at Tobruk in Libya, and in a classic blitzkrieg...
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featured in the game Company of Heroes 3 as a combat vehicle under the Afrikakorps' Italian Combined Arms Battlegroup. It features both anti-tank direct...
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as in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations and with Erwin Rommel's Afrikakorps. It was also supplied to several of Germany's allies, including Italy...
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corpses to get off their thick boots. The M40 Tropical tunics of the Afrikakorps, later authorized for summer field wear in Southern Europe, were basically...
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p. 171. ISBN 978-0-8131-6804-3. Showalter 2006, p. 227. Der Weg des Afrikakorps nach El Alamein war trotz mancher Kriegsverbrechen nicht wie jener der...
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D.A.K., (German acronym for Deutches Afrikakorps, the German expeditionary force sent to Africa during World War II), is a board wargame published by...
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reinforcements to Libya to defend Tripoli, assisted by the Deutsches Afrikakorps and the Luftwaffe. When war was declared, the 5th Army (General Italo...
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the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Böttcher served in the Deutsches Afrikakorps under Erwin Rommel where he commanded an artillery regiment. Later Böttcher...
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Luftwaffenring, consisting of Luftwaffe veterans; the Verband Deutsches Afrikakorps, the veterans' association of the Afrika Korps; and, most controversially...
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Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen while studying maps on the Italian Front with officers, May 1944. The officer on the right has the Afrikakorps armband....
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on Malta helped interdict Axis shipping supplying Rommel's Deutsches Afrikakorps in North Africa. Although it was designed as a torpedo-bomber, the Beaufort...
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Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-3381-6. Williamson, Gordon (2012). Afrikakorps 1941–43. Elite. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-78096-982-4. Windrow, Martin...
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OCLC 66120749. "Hobart biographical notes". Afrikacorps.org website. Allies & Afrikakorps North African / Mediterranean Campaign Research Group. Archived from...
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