Just wanted to start a thread about a possibility I am considering for my next map (after Makhnovo is realeased in early July).
There were landings from Summer to Winter 1941.
I have my eye on the landings at Grigoryevka, near Odessa, on 22nd September 1941. There's a map here.
This would mean modelling skins for the Rumanians, whose 4th army were defending on that day, so a fairly major project, I would have thought - especially as I have no idea how to do that (yet). The Russians were the 3rd Naval Infantry Regiment so the RKKF uniforms should take care of that.
So far all I have about the operation from the Rumanian perspective is this:
"However, Stavka had prepared a surprised to the Romanian 4th Army. During the night of 21/22 September, at 0045 hours, after a 30 minutes artillery preparation from several warships, about 2,000 men of the 3rd Marine Brigade (I thought 'Polk' meant regiment!!) landed at Grigorievka and Chebanka and advanced on the alignment Staraya Dofinivka – Buldinka, behind the positions of the 15th Infantry Division. Another landing was attempted to the east, but failed. The Romanian 13th Infantry Division held a 10 km front only with 4 battalions. The Soviet maneuver diverted further troops. Thus, at 0640 hours, the 157th Rifle Division launched and attack against the 13th Infantry Division, along the Odessa - Bierezovka railroad, with an infantry regiment. The attack surprised the 22nd Infantry Regiment. One of its battalions lost the CO and panicked. Despite several attempts to resist, they retreated to the southern outskirts of Kubanka village, bringing about the collapse of the entire disposition of the 5th Corps, which was forced also to withdraw the 15th Infantry Division in the northeastern area of the Chornaya Valley. The Soviet advanced was stopped with the help of the corps' reserves (2 battalions) and of motorized units rushed in the sector. The Stukas of the newly arrived III./StG 77 attacked the fleet, sinking the destroyer Frunze, a gunboat and a tug and damaging the destroyers Bezuprechnyy and Besposhachadnyy. GAL (Rumanian Air Group) also intervened, flying 71 sorties and dropping 32 tons of bombs on the Soviet forces. One transport ship reportedly was damaged by the He-111Hs of the 5th Bomber Group. The 13th Infantry Division lost 1,300 men, Gildendorf and had to pull back 6 km. The 5th Corps could no longer use its heavy artillery to bombard the Odessa harbor area. The counterattack was supported also by an incursion of the Romanian destroyers southeast of Odessa, from where they bombarded the Grigorievka bridgehead and retreated without loss, before the very much-surprised Soviet coastal artillery could retaliate."
This is from
http://www.worldwar2.ro/operatii/?article=7 which has some nice, but rather small piccies of Rumanian troops and tanks in action
Any material that people are aware of that might help - please post it here.
There were landings from Summer to Winter 1941.
I have my eye on the landings at Grigoryevka, near Odessa, on 22nd September 1941. There's a map here.
This would mean modelling skins for the Rumanians, whose 4th army were defending on that day, so a fairly major project, I would have thought - especially as I have no idea how to do that (yet). The Russians were the 3rd Naval Infantry Regiment so the RKKF uniforms should take care of that.
So far all I have about the operation from the Rumanian perspective is this:
"However, Stavka had prepared a surprised to the Romanian 4th Army. During the night of 21/22 September, at 0045 hours, after a 30 minutes artillery preparation from several warships, about 2,000 men of the 3rd Marine Brigade (I thought 'Polk' meant regiment!!) landed at Grigorievka and Chebanka and advanced on the alignment Staraya Dofinivka – Buldinka, behind the positions of the 15th Infantry Division. Another landing was attempted to the east, but failed. The Romanian 13th Infantry Division held a 10 km front only with 4 battalions. The Soviet maneuver diverted further troops. Thus, at 0640 hours, the 157th Rifle Division launched and attack against the 13th Infantry Division, along the Odessa - Bierezovka railroad, with an infantry regiment. The attack surprised the 22nd Infantry Regiment. One of its battalions lost the CO and panicked. Despite several attempts to resist, they retreated to the southern outskirts of Kubanka village, bringing about the collapse of the entire disposition of the 5th Corps, which was forced also to withdraw the 15th Infantry Division in the northeastern area of the Chornaya Valley. The Soviet advanced was stopped with the help of the corps' reserves (2 battalions) and of motorized units rushed in the sector. The Stukas of the newly arrived III./StG 77 attacked the fleet, sinking the destroyer Frunze, a gunboat and a tug and damaging the destroyers Bezuprechnyy and Besposhachadnyy. GAL (Rumanian Air Group) also intervened, flying 71 sorties and dropping 32 tons of bombs on the Soviet forces. One transport ship reportedly was damaged by the He-111Hs of the 5th Bomber Group. The 13th Infantry Division lost 1,300 men, Gildendorf and had to pull back 6 km. The 5th Corps could no longer use its heavy artillery to bombard the Odessa harbor area. The counterattack was supported also by an incursion of the Romanian destroyers southeast of Odessa, from where they bombarded the Grigorievka bridgehead and retreated without loss, before the very much-surprised Soviet coastal artillery could retaliate."
This is from
http://www.worldwar2.ro/operatii/?article=7 which has some nice, but rather small piccies of Rumanian troops and tanks in action
Any material that people are aware of that might help - please post it here.
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