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  6th SS Mountain Division Nord
The SS Division "Nord" was a German army unit of the Waffen-SS.
The division was later attached to the Finnish III Corps operating in the Kiestinki area.
In September 1942 the division was renamed as the SS Gebirgs Division "Nord" (SS Mountain Division "the North") and in October 1943 finally as the 6th SS Gebirgs Division "Nord".
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  German 169th Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The division was part of the German XXXVI Corps which also included SS Division Nord and the Finnish 6th Division.
During the heavy fighting against the Soviet 122nd Division the SS Division Nord broke and fled.
The 169th Division stayed in the area around Salla until the beginning of the hostilities between Finland and Germany known as the Lapland War in 1944.
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 History
Divisions officers and men were reassigned for service elsewhere in the same manner as the two previous divisions structure of both was reduced in most cases to a skeleton of organizations and units.
Infantry Division commander, that he (Hall) was none to happy about the Division’s lack of eastward progress.  Jones, ostensibly acting out of frustration and in reaction to General Hall’s ire, relieved the 152d Infantry Regiment commander and placed the regiment under temporary command of another officer.
Infantry Regiment reinforced by a battalion of the 34
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 Continuation War - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Germans arrived and established quarters, depots, and bases along the rail lines from Vaasa and Oulu to Ylitornio and Rovaniemi, and from there along the roads via Karesuvanto and Kilpisjärvi or Ivalo and Petsamo to Skibotten and Kirkenes in northern Norway.
The Finns also agreed to give two divisions to the Germans in northern Finland (30 000 men) and to the usage of airfields in Helsinki and Kemijärvi (Because of the number of German aircraft, airfields at Kemi and Rovaniemi were added later).
The German ambassador initiated urgent negotiations with Sweden for transfer of the German 163rd Infantry Division from Norway to Finland using Swedish rail.
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 The Accrington Pals
As shells continued to burst on the German front trench, the men of the 3rd and 4th Companies IR169 scrambled from their underground shelters bringing machine guns, rifles and grenades to bear on the attacking troops.
The German commander Ludendorff however wrote that on the Somme "the German Army had been fought to a standstill and was utterly worn out".
During the great German Spring Offensive of 1918, the battalion distinguished itself in defensive roles on 27th March at Ayette and on 12th-13th April at the Lys (Hazebrouck).
www.pals.org.uk /pals_e.htm   (1642 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1944
The U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division, in Italy, attempts to cross the Rapido River.
Infantry inspect a hole in the devasted Kwajalein Atoll Kwajalein Atoll is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), 2,100 nautical miles (3900 km) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, at 8.
U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division participates in its fourth assault landing at St. Maxime, spearheading the drive for the Belfort Gap.
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German small-arms fire from the bluffs overlooking the approaches raked the surface of the water, while indirect artillery fire splashed amid the landing craft in the English Channel.
The ferocity of the enemy response was due primarily to the 352nd Infantry Division, one of the few full-strength German divisions in France.
German strongpoints were positioned on either side of the exits, but they had been built on the lower slopes of the bluffs, so their fire was limited to the beaches.
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 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The 6th Division was attached to the German XXXVI Corps in Northern Finland in 1941.
As part of Operation Barbarossa the division attacked with the SS Division Nord and German 169th Infantry Division against Salla with the goal of reaching Kandalaksha on the White Sea coast.
The division was transported to the Maaselkä isthmus in 1942, but after the Soviet main assault started in 1944, it was moved to the Karelian Isthmus.
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 Infantry Regiments Page
They arrived as part of a division which was split in half shortly after its arrival and subsequently the Battalion never remained under the same command for long at a stretch being switched from one brigade or division or another at twenty-four hours’ notice or less at times.
With the rest of the division it fought in the BEF during the Fall of France in 1940, with the 6th and 8th Battalions taking part in the counter attack at Arras in May 1940, which nearly killed General Erwin Rommel, before being evacuated to the UK.
When it returned to the UK as a training division, the battalion joined 131st Lorried Infantry Brigade at the end of November 1944 to replace one of the two Queen's Battalions that were disbanded.
www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/orginfantry.htm   (8438 words)

  
 6th Division . Australian 6th Division . British 6th Division (World War I) . Norwegian 6th Division . Finnish 6th ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Infantry units and state of origin 16th Australian Infantry Brigade, New South Wales NSW 21st Australian...
The British 6th Division was a permanently established Regular Army division military division that was sent to France on 10 September, 1914.
As part of Operation Barbarossa the division attacked with the SS Division Nord and German 169th Infantry Division against Salla with the goal of reaching...
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /6th_Division   (404 words)

  
 The National Guard - Today in Guard History
However, the river is crossed and a breech in the German line is affected, allowing the 3rd Battalion, 120th Infantry (TN), 30th Infantry Division and armored elements to exploit the gap.
In 1968, as part of a massive reorganization of the Guard, the 31st Infantry Division was reorganized and redesignated as the 31st Armored Brigade, an all-Alabama unit.
Medics of the 124th Infantry (FL), 31st Infantry Division (AL, FL, LA, MS) are carrying stretchers to be prepared to evacuate wounded soldiers as the division fights on Aitape Island, New Guinea, July 31, 1944.
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 The Sami and World War II
There were five divisions in the Isthmus, two divisions on the other side of the lake, nine battalions covering the considerable area of Central Finland, and four battalions in independent Sapmi.
Many of the Sami that the Germans forced to act as their guides had originally been employed by the Norwegian government as part of the ski cavalry (http://hem.fyristorg.com/robertm/norge /norway_reference.htm).
The SS Division “Nord” and the 169th Infantry Division and the Finnish 6th Infantry Division attacked the South Kola.
www.utexas.edu /courses/sami/dieda/hist/wwii.htm   (4371 words)

  
 SS Division Nord . AOK Norwegen . Finnish 6th Division (Continuation War) . 1941 . Finnish III Corps (Continuation War) ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Colonel Werner Viikla 1941 Colonel A. Mäkiniemi 12th Brigade Major General E. Vihma 1943 == Organisation == The 6th Division was organised from men from the Far-North Military Province...
The German 169th Infantry Division was a Germany German military unit during World War II.
The Division military division was formed in 1939.
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /SS_Division_Nord   (462 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia
The arrival of German troops participating in Operation Barbarossa began on June 7 in Petsamo, where SS Division Nord started southwards, and on June 8 in the ports of the Gulf of Bothnia where the German 169th Infantry Division was transported by rail to Rovaniemi, where both of these turned eastward on June 18.
Another German infantry division was en route through Sweden to Ladoga Karelia, although one reinforced regiment was later redirected from it to Salla.
The 19th division had continued it's attack southeast, and between July 18-25 the fierce encirclements and counter-encirclements raged before Finns managed to capture the main road and cut the railroad between Sortavala and Matkaselkä, which was captured July 18.
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 Shofar FTP Archives: imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-C-39
Total strength (after departure of 6 Infantry Divisions and introduction of 5 formations of the fifteenth wave from the Reich during the period 22 May-1 June: 40 Infantry Divisions, 1 Infantry Division (motorized).
It is planned after the beginning of the operations to bring up a further Infantry Division by rail across Sweden for the attack on Hango.
In the Balkans are stationed, in addition to the formations scheduled for the final occupation, 8 Infantry Divisions and 1 Armoured Division which will be transported in part into the Concentration Area East as OKH Reserve but not before B-Day.
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 Pro Patria Mori - Gommecourt - The Battle
D Company was the unluckiest, losing many men to the German artillery and their CO in front of the German trenches.
Small groups of men from the Sherwood Foresters had entered the German lines on the extreme left and were pushing forward but, behind them, the reserves had been slow to come forward and now, under terrific enfilade artillery fire from Adinfer Wood to the north, they were unable to make any progress.
The German artillery barrage and machine gun fire across No Man's Land was now so severe that an attempt by B Company to reinforce their colleagues collapsed within a few yards of the British front line.
www.gommecourt.co.uk /battle.htm   (3701 words)

  
 The Sheffield City Battalion
The 31st Division had been assigned to Egypt to defend the Suez Canal against the threat of an attack by the Turkish Army.
On the night of 15th/16th May, 15 were killed and 45 wounded as the Germans mounted a trench raid under cover of an artillery bombardment of such an intensity that in places the front line was practically levelled.
On the right of the Sheffield City Battalion, the Accrington Pals made greater inroads into the German trenches but were unable to hold on to the hard-won gains.
www.pals.org.uk /sheffield   (1524 words)

  
 WORLD WAR II MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS (G-L)
The 4 Germans hit the ground and thereupon 2d Lt. Gregg recovered a machine pistol from one of the Germans and managed to escape to his other machinegun positions.
Cut off from his division while deep in enemy territory during a high cover flight over Simpson Harbor on 24 January, 1st Lt. Hanson waged a lone and gallant battle against hostile interceptors as they were orbiting to attack our bombers and, striking with devastating fury, brought down 4 Zeroes and probably a fifth.
Two Germans individually worked so close to his position that his machinegun was ineffective, whereupon he killed 1 with his pistol, the second with a rifle taken from another soldier.
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 169th   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union held its 169th session at the Ouaga 2000 Conference Centre on...
RESOLVED, that the 169th Convention of the Diocese of Michigan reaffirm the...
This the the homepage of the 169th Army Rangers Recon Squadren.
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 Games Depot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The German 429th Grenadier Regiment, of the 169th Infantry Division, first loses the hill then recaptures it.
This is a Russian assault on a German position.
The scenario is based on a historical event.
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 German 169th Infantry Division . Germany . Division (military) . July 1 . Winter War . AOK Norwegen . 1944 . Wehrmacht
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in smaller units and was not therefore organized into divisions, but for larger militaries, a number of cavalry divisions were formed.
They were most often similar to the nations infantry divisions in structure, although they usually had fewer and lighter support elements, with cavalry brigades or regiments replacing the infantry units.
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