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Title: Armor Battles of the Waffen SS, 1943-45 (Stackpole Military History Series) by Will Fey ISBN: 0-8117-2905-2 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Panzerkommandanten berichten !
Comment: Panzer ace Willi Fey survived the war having earned the Deutsche Kreuz in Gold for his actions in Normandy and fought in the final battles for Berlin. This cheap reprint of the Fedorowicz classic is a translation of Fey's original German text Panzerkampf im Bild first published by Munin Verlag. As a fund of personal accounts from Waffen SS tank commanders it provides unrivalled reference material, from the hot spots of the Russian front and the battles for Charkov in early 1943 to an account of Jagdtigers in action in the final days of the war..
Fey had transferred to the Waffen-SS from the Heer and was posted to Schwere SS Panzer Abteilung 102. The Tiger crews enjoyed great success in Normandy & France as a static defensive vehicle, a role it was forced to perform due to Allied air superiority. The static defense also took away mechanical unreliability from the tanks & conserving valuable fuel without taking away the advantage in firepower.
The actions for which Fey won his German cross in Gold are recounted in detail here and are typical of the type of material presented by individual SS tank commanders in the book.
By the beginning of August 1944 the German lines in Normandy were crumbling. On 8 August as Allied forces crept towards Vire, west of Falaise, Willi Fey as an SS-Unterscharführer from the 1st Company of sSSPzAbt 102, launched an attack, supported by the 1./Pioneer Btn 600 under Oberleutnant GAUL, on a column of 15 Shermans and gun carriers from the 23rd Hussars/11th Armoured Division, sighted approaching down the valley from the direction of the hamlet of Houssemagne. Opening fire at a distance of 600 metres, 4 Shermans are rapidly put out of action. Fey's Tiger «134» is disabled by a number of hits. Kommandeur Pz. Ab 102 Obersturmbannführer Weiß orders Fey to blow up his Tiger. Fey continues firing at the Shermans accounting for 14 off them in a 30 minute action. His Tiger is towed back to German lines later that night. Weiß recommends Fey for the Deutsche Kreuz in Gold following this action and the award is presented by General II Panzerkorps Bittrich on 15 September 1944...
It should be stressed that there is little in the way of documentary evidence for the accounts presented here ( certainly British records do not record the loss of 15 Shermans on the day in question ) but the book works fine on a purely descriptive level..herein are the sort of personal accounts that Tim Ripley's works on the Waffen SS Panzer arm so lacked..
Despite individual Tiger actions like this, disaster befell the Tigers at Falaise with 102nd SS-SPz Abt " DAS Reich " losing all its Tigers although claiming to have knocked out 227 tanks in 6 weeks. The 101st LSSAH claimed over 200 including Wittmans tally at Villers-Bocage. However not many Tiger I's crossed the Seine after Falaise.
Post war, Willi Fey achieved high rank in the Bundeswehr ( Federal German armed forces..)
Once again, thanks to Stackpole for this fine re-print..
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Title: Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS by Johann Voss ISBN: 0966638980 Publisher: Aegis Consulting Group Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front (Modern War Studies (Paperback)) by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann, Derek S. Zumbro, Dennis Showalter ISBN: 0700611223 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Five Years, Four Fronts: The War Years of Georg Grossjohann by Georg Grossjohann, Ulrich Abele ISBN: 096663893X Publisher: Aegis Consulting Group Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Images of Kursk: History's Greatest Tank Battle, July 1943 by Nik Cornish ISBN: 1574885766 Publisher: Brassey's Inc Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945 by Erhard Raus, Steven H. Newton ISBN: 0306812479 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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