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СКАЧАТЬ otherwise «Art-Sturm». Armament: 75 mm gun, 54 rounds, horizontal angle of ± 12°(the gun is not fixed strictly in the vertical plane, as it seems), MG-34 machine gun from the commander’s turret. Booking: the forehead of the case 50 mm., Plus, fixed on bolts of 30 mm. armor plate (usually flew after hit the projectile), board 30 mm. Chamfer forehead: 50 mm. and 30 mm. plate, board 30 mm. Weight 23 tons. Crew of 4 people. Speed on the highway 40 km. h, cross-country 12—15 km. h. The power reserve, respectively, is 165 km. and 95 km. Specific power 13 hp, ground pressure 0, 94 kg. cm. From 1940 to 1945, 9,346 units were produced (the most massive Wehrmacht armored vehicle).

      It is widely believed that the cessation of Operation Citadel was facilitated by the landing of the Allies in Sicily, for the battle against which considerable armored forces of the Wehrmacht were transferred to Italy, including the remains of the elite 2nd SS Panzer Corps. Indeed, some «politically reliable» units went there as if to «rest», but without heavy equipment, except for the unit of the 11 SAU Ferdinand, which in the rear were fitted with a machine gun in the rear. … For one reason or another (a game of intelligence, intricate diplomacy, or whatever, the Hitler command sends 10 divisions from Sicily to the Eastern Front, using this, the Anglo-American commanders undertake a large-scale landing operation on a fairly loyal island to them. Kursk battle, 1943, on the night of 9 to 10 July.

      Forces of the parties. Anglo-American allies – about 450 thousand (along with all the rear units), ethnic Germans – two incomplete divisions, about 30 thousand people, 150 tanks, and, nominally, 300—320 thousand Italians who are not quite willing to fight.

      Italy Northern and Italy South – not quite the same thing. The south of the country, and, above all, Sicily, lives its own life, far from the movements of the industrialized, and getting involved in some risky social projects, the North. You can say that the southern Italians are quite ready to surrender before any military-political force.

      So, with the massive support of aviation and large-caliber ship artillery, the 8th British Army Bernard Montgomery and the 7th US Army George Paton are attacking. Despite the considerable losses of planes and gliders from the «friendly fire», and not fully coordinated air assault, they achieve some success.

      Palermo, the capital of the island, surrenders after ten days.

      On the seventeenth of August the Hitlerites were evacuated to mainland Italy.

      Losses of the parties: allies – 7,000 dead, 19,000 taken prisoner. Germany – 5 000 killed, 12 000 prisoners, Italy – 22 000 killed and about 140 000 prisoners.

      September 3, the Allies are making an invasion of the Apennine Peninsula. Ethnic (southern) Italians have practically no resistance.

      On September 8, 1943, the Italian Duce of Mussolini is captured by rebel generals and, on the same date, in the city of Cassibile, announces a truce that Hitler perceives as a declaration of war. On September 11, the Wehrmacht command orders the disarmament and sending to the camps of Italian soldiers and officers who refused to swear an oath of nazi Germany. First, indeed, among the now-captured military, certain work is carried out, individual conversations, but then machine guns are used everywhere. In the outskirts of Lviv, 10,000 Italians were shot, 6,300 in the Balkans, 4,500 in the Mediterranean Kefallinia Islands, 22,600 camps for prisoners of war in Poland; only about 50 thousand.

      Skorzeni’s paratroopers liberate the Duce on September 12, ten days later he is placed at the head of the government of the newly created Italian Social Republic. But, for obvious reasons, the former understanding between the allies is no longer there.

      In early October 1943, the Anglo-American offensive stopped before the «Volturno Line», the first of several fortified lines of defense along a line that crossed Italy somewhat south of Rome. This state of affairs persists until May 1944 (the Battle of Monte Cassino, a loss ratio of 50,000 to 20,000, not in favor of the Allies).

      April 8, 1944 begins the Crimean offensive operation. After the prelude, which took place three months earlier, marked by a high number of casualties, avalanches of Soviet troops advance deep into the peninsula from the «front door» – Perekop. They are clearing the way for mobile assault and subversive detachments. To avoid encirclement, the German units leave Kerch, go to Sevastopol, the commander-in-chief requests permission to evacuate. Hitler shifts the marshal, but this does not change anything at all. Under the attacks of Soviet aviation, which prevails in the air, unbearable artillery strikes, on all available boats the remnants of German and Romanian armies leave the Crimea. From April to May evacuate 60 thousand people. The storming of Sevastopol takes four days this time. The remnants of German compounds are pulled together to the Chersonesus cape, but the ships they expect will not come. The losses of the Axis countries – 120,000 dead, 20,000 prisoners (of the original 200,000), all combat equipment, including three quarters of the Black Sea Fleet of Romania, the USSR – 18,000 people.

      Korsun-Shevchenkovskaya operation – the encirclement of the 65-thousand German grouping on the ledge, deeply penetrated into the location of the Soviet troops, will start on January 24, 1944.

      About 1,000 senior officers of the Wehrmacht are evacuated by airplanes. The 45,000-strong mass of people left after the bombing, abandoning heavy equipment, rushes to the river crossings, beyond which it would rejoin the main forces. SS men, shooting their wounded (this practice in the retreating troops of the SS was strictly carried out), are at the head of two huge columns. On them, to some extent, accidentally, come out Soviet tanks and cavalry. In four hours, 20,000 German soldiers perish in the plain and in the ravines. Six T-34-76, caught in this place, shoot a mass of people crossing the river at point-blank range, but 25,000 people, demoralized for a long time and unable to take part in the fighting, manage to escape.

      All that had happened was noted by the English military attaché who arrived at this place.

      Losses of the parties: the USSR – 24 000 people, 600—800 tanks and self-propelled guns, the Wehrmacht – 65 000 irrecoverable losses, including the deblocking group, 400—500 tanks, 320 aircraft, 12 000 trucks.

      The opening of the second front will take place on June 6, 1944. The Germans, now counting on passive defense, who spent huge amounts of money to create a continuous «Atlantic Wall» can be deceived. The landing of the Allies (Operation Overlord) occurs not in the Pas-de-Calais, or in Brittany, but in Normandy. The Wehrmacht command assumes that the absence of convenient ports here is critical for a large-scale landing; However, in the shipyards of Great Britain, in the atmosphere of complete secrecy, two fully functional floating harbors of Mulberry were built. German intelligence «eats» a well-prepared disinformation, despite even some of its cinematography – the body of a British officer with the relevant documents on the banks of the English Channel.

      Five weeks before the invasion, the British and Americans are carrying out Operation Tiger, a training that ends with the death of three 150-meter landing ships with 750 military, from torpedoes of German boats. According to another version, all these people, or a part of them, fall under the fire of the English, playing the role of defending Germans, because of some unthinkable, incredible mistake shooting live ammunition. In any case, the radio frequencies of British and Americans are brought to the standard, the role of secrecy, the weight of soldiers with ammunition, their alignment are consistent with the capabilities of life jackets.

      After a lot of unnecessary sacrifices, failures, mistakes that saturate Fortune, luck is now on the side of the Allies.

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