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The Armies of Rommel
THE ARMIES OF
ROMMEL
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T HE A RMIES
OF ROMMEL
George Forty
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Arms and Armour
A Cassell imprint
Wellington House, 125 Strand, London WC2R 0BB.
© George Forty, 1997
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical
including photocopying recording or any information storage and
retrieval system without permission in writing from the Publisher.
First published 1997
This edition 1999
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: a catalogue record
for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 1-85409-503-X
Distributed in the USA by Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.,
387 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016-8810.
Maps by Anthony A. Evans
Designed and edited by DAG Publications Ltd.
Designed by David Gibbons; edited by Michael Boxall;
printed and bound in Great Britain
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Contents
Introduction & Acknowledgements, 9
c. Artillery, 42
d. Reconnaissance, 43
e. Engineers, 43
f. Anti-Tank, 43
g. Anti-Tank/Anti-Aircraft, 43
h. Signals, 43
i. Supply, 43
j. Administrative Units, 44
Attached Luftwaffe Units, 44
Divisional Headquarters Staff, 44
Personalities, 45
Otto Heidkämper, 45
Major Ziegler, 46
Personal staff, 46
Gefechtsstaffel, 46
ADCs, 46
NCOs, 46
Batman, 47
Nazis, 47
Other means of transportation, 47
The German Soldier, May 1940, 47
Basic Dress and Equipment, 47
Personal Weapons, 49
Blitzkrieg Tactics, 49
Planning the Assault in the West, 52
'Fall Gelb', 52
7th Panzer Division's Position in the
Assault, 53
The Campaign, 54
Phase 1, Across the Meuse (9-14 May
1940), 54
Phase 2, Breakthrough from the Meuse
(15-19 May 1940), 57
Phase 3, Success at Cambrai, Reverses at
Arras (19-21 May 1940), 62
Phase 4, Stops and Starts on the Way to
Lille (22 May-2 June 1940), 64
Phase 4 (continued), The Somme and
on to the Seine (3-10 June 1940), 66
Phase 5, St-Valery-en-Caux and after
(10-15 June 1940), 68
Phase 6, The End at Cherbourg, then on
1 EARLY DAYS (1891-1918), 11
Beginning as an Infantryman, 11
A typical Swabian, 11
The Imperial German Army, 12
The Great War Begins, 13
First Battle, 14
Company Commander, 16
Service with the Mountain Battalion,
Uniform and Personal Equipment, 19
Weapons and Equipment, 19
Mountain artillery, 21
Into Battle Once More, 21
Pour le Mérite, 23
2 BETWEEN THE WARS (1919-1939),
Peacetime Soldiering, 26
A New Beginning, 26
Infantry Division Establishment, 27
Command, 28
Enter Adolf Hitler, 29
In the Service of the Führer, 30
Expansion, 30
Liaison Officer to the Hitler Youth, 31
Führerbegleitbataillon, 32
Major-General and Headquarters
Commandant, 32
Hitler's train, 33
Organisation of the Escort Battalion, 34
Special Weapons, 35
3 THE GHOST DIVISION
(1939-1940), 37
A Field Command (September 1939 -
June 1940), 37
Getting Back into Trim, 38
Organisation of Seventh Panzer
Division c.1940, 38
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