Erwin Rommel

Rommel is more a man who has to be active in the frontline. how higher your rank, the farer away you are from that frontline and the more troops you need to command. as Rommel always changed it's plan during the battles he had to tell all his troops so too much troops were indeed a problem for him as he couldn't inform them all in time

 

can someone tell wich important battles becides north africa rommel was an important person in?

 

As was posted here, before he was sent to Africa he commanded 7th Panzer Division in France. After he was relieved from his post in North Africa he was given command of Army Group B in France, which held the stretch of Atlantikwall which was most likely to be the target of the expected Allied invasion. For about a year he worked frantically to improve the coastal defences with what little resources he had at his disposal, but this could not prevent or throw back the Allied landings in June 1944. Rommel remained in command of Army Group B until late July 1944 when Hitler more or less ordered him to commit suicide.

 

he got shotted by an airplane a couple days before his suicide and brought back to germany and to be visited by the gestapo.

 

makes you think...

 

tanks again roel you teach me more than every person ever (becides my grandfather)

 

You're welcome, though any given book would teach you a lot more than I could tell you in a few short posts...

 

Erwin Rommel(The Desert Fox) was a great manouvering general, and creative one.

In a theater where there is not so much options, he used his creativity to employ efficiently his AA 88mm, for an example, like an Antitank gun, destroying the British crusaders in the pre-Monty era (In the Desert campaign). Or stretching some pieces of wood by tanks to increase the dustcloud from the tanks on the attack, to make the British believe the main attack is in that side, but the real attack being from another side, etc.

He was a great tactical general, and a very professional soldier. I guess

 

88's were already assigned AT roles pre Africa,

I think the first use was in Spain, though without AP rounds

FNG

 

in the movie , saveing prvt ryan , we see tom hanks landing craft hosed by a mg at the moment the ramp is dropped ..almost the entire boat load of g.i.s is killed..this is said to depict a true event of that day ..i wonder if that was severloh up in the mg pit doing the shooting ,it seems likely

 

Um, is that post in the right topic, Majorwoody? It seems out of place.

 

actually ,roel , i was responding to your post about severloh on page one

 

Oh right.

Severloh made almost 1200 of his casualties by firing at a single LCI as it tried to unload its soldiers. Since there were no LCIs on the beach in Saving Private Ryan the scene apparently took place somewhere else. Bear in mind that the directly assaulted area of Omaha Beach was a stretch of coast 10 kilometers wide.

 

The allied casualties in Omaha beach during the 1st day were about 2000 dead,wounded and missing. So Severloh is responsible for roughly 1/2 of the American casualties at Omaha! Also, SPR takes place in Dog Green sector--where the most fierce fighting took place(IIRC).
It doesn't make sense, does it?
:-?

 

I heard he was on his way back to Berlin to face an inquest after the Hitler Bomb Plot. Shot his whole family and committed suicide because he was in on it and knew, Hitler knew.

 

severloh shot his whole family too ?
...man ..no wonder he was called a butcher..

 

I think your number of casualties on Omaha is a bit low, including the wounded I believe it would end up beyond 3000. Still, Severloh is indeed responsible for an unreasonably large part of it.

Do they mention a sector in SPR? I remember them yelling "Dog One" which is a non-existant codename in Operation Overlord.

 

True, but I've read that the beach meant to be Dog Green IIRC.

Also, where Severloh was stationed? Presumably, on one of the Dog sectors?

 

I recall that the the sector is in text on the screen. I don't recall exactly now what it said though so I will have to put the DVD on again soon and check it out.

 

I googled a bit and i find some really interesting stories about Severloh.War show no mercy man just done what they tould him to do.And he done it good.