Album II. Grenadier Regiment 97

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An Album of the II. Grenadier Regiment 97.

Maybe some of you are interessted in it.

Most of the Photos are from France.


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#8 On the battlefield

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#14 What's that?



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#17 Boat



#18 Destroyed German Train



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#20 On track

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#23 A dead Citizen?



#24 Is this a Zeppelin?

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#25 After the long walking, some sleep is needed.



#26 During a Battle?



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#28 A little Picnic

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#29 Are those parts of a crashed airplane?



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#31 The Externsteine in Nordrhein Westfalen - still nowadays a place to meet on heathenistic days.





#32 A burning house

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#33 A Destroyed Bridge



#34 2 Dead Soldiers killed in Action, from which country are they?



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#36 Another dead Soldier killed in Action, where is he from?

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#37 Last one




There are also more photos in the Album, mostly of destroyed Cities, Citizens and Architecture or some photos show the same, just from another angle.

Comments are welcome also Descriptions of what to see on some of the pictures.


Regards,
T.K.M

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Nobody here to answer a few questions on the KIA'S for example?


Regards,
T.K.M

[tigre]

Infanterie Regiment 97

Hello T.K.M, thanks for sharing it. I asume the pictures were taken during the Westfeldzug - 1940. In that campaign the IR 97 belonging to the 46 ID (sudetenland) under Majorgeneral Haase fought within the XXXVIII AK framework (General von Manstein) getting across the Somme on 5-6 Jun 1940. Here an excerpt of the story:

In the woods south of Hill 99, hostile machine guns and individual riflemen opened fire again and again. This was due to the fact that the hostile machine gun nests were so cleverly concealed in the dense undergrowth of the woods and offered such stubborn resistance that it was necessary to take them one by one. Meanwhile the 1st Battalion was making its way through the depression south of Hill 74 to the small woods above the letter “y” in “Fourdrinoy” (500 meters northwest of Romomt Ferme), in order to place itself at the disposal of the Regiment. The regimental command post had been moved to a point 300 meters northeast of the crossroads (600 meters west of Hill 99). It was now dark.

Hostile orders found subsequently revealed that the French 13th Division, comprising the 60th and 21st Infantry and the 8th Moroccan Rifles, and four battalions of light and two of heavy field afilllery, in the main had established a line of defense facing the German bridgehead at Amiens.

The enemy also had concentrated his artillery fire on that area. The opponent was weakest in the region south of Picquigny. That was the reason why the 2d Battalion had advanced so rapidly to the high ground southeast of Fourdrinoy, after taking Hill 74 and the small woods 1,500 meters southwest of that point. The 3d Battalion had encountered considerably more difficulties, for it had to break through the defensive positions of parts of two hostile battalions placed one behind the other (2d and 3d Battalions, French 60th Infantry). Nevertheless, exploiting the effect of the air attack, the Battalion by nightfall gained the vicinity of the hostile artillery group at Saissemont.

taken from: The Breakthrough of the German 63d Infantry Across the Somme, 5-6 June 1940
[from an article in Militarwissenschaftliche Rundschau, November 1940. Translated from the German in the Translation Section, ‘The Army War College”, Washington DC,] http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtop...asc&highlight=

Here a map of that engagement: http://chrito.users1.50megs.com/kart...iakjuni40a.jpg

So those killed soldiers could be probably part of the 13 Division. Cheers. Tigre

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Thanks alot Tigre. It's always better to know the stories behind the pictures.


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Infanterie Regiment 97

You're welcome TKM, nice photo album. Cheers. Tigre

[HouweTrouwe]

Wow.. That's is one hell-of-a photobook!