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Gardening the Danube
For those interested in the topic, here is small example, an article in Eduard info magazine
https://info.eduard.com/en/04-2024-1...ing-the-danube
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Re: Gardening the Danube
What a nice surprise! An excellent article about a little known undertaking during the war. My only complaint might be that the authors didn't include the Axis side of this story. That would require a great deal of multilingual research in the various archives and at least several years of hard work. Hopefully, someone with the skills, financial backing and time will eventually come along and tackle this.
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Re: Gardening the Danube
Larry,
all is in the book. Includes list of sunk ships, countermeasures of the Luftwaffe and Marine, as well as types of mines used, etc... get the book and you will have full info regards and thanks Peter
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Re: Gardening the Danube
Thanks for clearing that up, Peter. This website, as we all know, is mainly for Luftwaffe researchers and historians, so I'm sure they will all appreciate knowing your book covers it all, including the Nachtjäger units and the Flak units brought up to reinforce the defenses along the Danube. I remember reading many details in the microfilmed records of the Deutschen General in Serbien, Heeresgruppen E und F and in those of other German commands in the Balkans. The ULTRA material at the British National Archives has some interesting intercepts, too.
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Re: Gardening the Danube
Nachtjägers are dealt only with relation to victims. As for Flak, it was not in my power to check all bateries located along the river banks...usually only 4-barelled batteries of middle and light Flak. It was researched more from the side of the 205 Group RAF...but for future addendum, if you have those mentioned materials in your hands, I would like to ask for share (link , signature or zipfile?) THANKS
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Re: Gardening the Danube
Hello Peter -
Unfortunately, it was between 1979 and 1995 that I spent time researching WWII in the Balkans, using the German documents, some Italian documents, Allied intelligence reports, DEFE 3 ULTRA signals and a large amount of Yugoslav documents and published literature. My purpose had nothing to do with the mining of the Danube, so what I saw and read on this subject was only in passing and I did not segregate it and place it in a file. Accordingly, to get this material for you would necessitate going through everything again and that would take another 16 years! Since I am 86-years-old now, I don't think it would ever get finished! Sorry, L. deZ. |
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Re: Gardening the Danube
thanks for clarification Larry...lets focus on some other things then still lot to research best regards
P.
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