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| 6th Division - Strength 8/4-40
(Commander: Gen. Fleischer) In East Finnmark (commander: Col. Faye) In South Varanger 1st Battalion / Inf. Rgt 12 2nd Battalion / Inf. Rgt. 14 One motorised artillery battery One platoon from Signal Company 6 One Field Hospital One platoon from Car Company 6 At Nyborg Varanger Battalion In Troms (commander: Col. Löken) 2nd Battalion / Inf. Rgt. 15 (Maj. Spjeldæs, at Bardufoss. Ordered to Elvegaardsmoen 8th April) Mountain Artillery Battalion III (2 Mountain Batteries and 1 motorised battery, the latter was ordered to Øyjord 8/4-99) Signals Company 6 (- 1 platoon) Medical Company 6 Infantry Rifle Company 6 Car Company 6 (- 1 platoon) The 6th Division NCO School In Ofoten (commander: Col. Sundlo, after 9th April-May. Omdahl) At Elvegaardsmoen 1st Battalion / Inf. Rgt. 13 (- one company) In Narvik One Rifle company from Inf. Rgt 13 Machine Gun Battery 6 (Eriksen) Engineer Company 6 (Capt. Gundersen) 4 x 40 m.m AA guns (Lt Munthe-Kaas) 2 x 6,5 m.m Mountain guns w/ crew 2 armoured ships, ”Norge” (Kommandørkaptein Askim) and ”Eidsvold” (Kommandørkaptein Willoch) Coastal Guard vessels “Michael Sars” (Capt. Jackwitz), “Senja”, and “Kelt” (Lt. Mathiesen) Submarines B1 and B3. DIVISIONAL AIRCRAFT (Army only) Haalogaland Flying Unit participated in exercises in Finnmark 8/4-40 with these aircraft: (at least one was lost in an accident) 3 Fokker C-VD a/c at Tana 3 Fokker C-VD a/c at Porsanger Usually they were stationed at Bardufoss and Banak. Navy aircraft Royal Norwegian Navy Airforce, 3rd Flying Squadron w/ 3 He 115 in Tromsø. Commander: Lt. Jørgensen. Also 2 MF 11 at Vadsø. These forces were also mobilised: Alta Battalion 1st Battalion / Inf. Rgt 16 2nd Battalion / Inf. Rgt 16 During the war operations, two new battle groups were formed. These were called ”Brigades”, even If they really never were such. (It was really the British commanders that started using this term) These “Brigades” did however not have more than 50 % of the usual international Brigade strength: At Gratangseidet 7th Brigade (commander: Col. Faye) Alta Battalion (Lt.Col. Dahl) 2nd Battalion / Inf. Rgt. 15 (Maj. Hyldmo) Mountain Artillery Battalion III (Lt.Col. Hornslien) One Motorised Artillery Battery (Capt. Landmark) One platoon from Signal Company 6 One platoon from Engineer Company 6 One platoon from Medical Company One National Guards (Territorials) rifle Company (2 / I.R 6) At Gressdalen and Raudalen 6th Brigade (commander: Col. Löken) 1st Platoon / Inf. Rgt. 12 (Maj. Böckmann) 1st Battalion / Inf. Rgt. 16 (Maj. Hunstad) 2nd Battalion / Inf. Rgt 16 (Maj. Munthe-Kaas) One battery from Mountain Artillery Battalion III One platoon from Signals Company 6 Medical Company 6 (- one platoon) One National Guards (Territorials) rifle Company from I.R 16 Allied commander at the Ankenes region: (from 17th May) Gen. Bohusz-Szyszko. Allied Commander all land forces: Gen. Behouart The only Allied tank force present in Norway in 1940 was the French 342nd and 343rd ”Compagnie Autonome de Chars” (Independent Tank Company), equipped with 15 Hotchkiss H-39 light tanks (342rd, Capt. Dublineau) and 15 Renault FT-17 (343rd). Three Battalions from the French “1st. Légerère de Chasseurs Alpins” (arriving 27th April in Foldvik and Skånland), without most of their ski equipment). Two Battalions French Foreign Legion, Commander: Col. Magrin-Verneret, the “13th Legion d´Etranger Demi-Brigade”, arrived 5th May, (1st Batallion: Maj. Boyer-Resses, 2nd Battalion: Maj. Gueninchaut) Most of the men were Germans, Spanish, and English, and some had participated in the Spanish Civil War) Four Battalions Polish ”Chasseur de Nord”, the Carpathian “Podhale” Brigade 1st Demi-Brigade (Col. Chlusevic) w/ 1st Battallion (Maj. Kobylinski) and 2nd Battalion (Col. Dec) 2nd Demi-Brigade (Col. Kobylecki) w/ 3rd Battalion (Lt.Col. Mackowski) and 4th Battalion (Maj. Jasowski) Two Companies of “The South Wales Borderers”, (landed at Harstad April 14th, and Ballangen 26th April) “24th (Scots & Irish) Guards Brigade”, Gen. Mackesy. (The Brigade lost all their heavy equipment on May 14th, when Hauptmann Kowalski from” X-Fliegerkorps” got an direct bomb hit with his He 111 on the Polish liner ”Chowdry” (”Chobry”) in the Vestfjord.) One RAF squadron (46th Sqn.) equipped w/ Hurricanes, first at Skånland, later Bardufoss Arrived 26th May. One RAF squadron (263rd Sqn.) equipped w/ Fairey Swordfish, also at Bardufoss. Arrived 21st May. These aircraft were transported on the carrier “Glorious” when the Allied retreated; it was shortly after attacked and sunk by “Scharnhorst” All together 25 000 men. |
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| Wysłany: Śro 16:11, 18 Gru 2019 Temat postu: Armia Norweska |
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| Batalion Piechoty:
dow 3 x komp piechoty 1 x komp ckm kompania piechoty: dow komp (3 fig.) 4 x pluton piechoty: dow plut. (2 fig.) 4 x drużyna (3 fig.) kompania ckm: dow komp (3 fig.) 3-4 x pluton ckm (3-4 ckm M1917 Browning m/29) plut m (2 moździerz Brand-Stokes 81mm m/34) |
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