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Dukla Battlefield – Normandy of Central Europe
Today a peaceful rural area on the Slovak Polish border, the Dukla Mountain Pass witnessed one of the biggest and most bloody battles of WWII on the Eastern Front - The Battle of Dukla Pass, officially known
as the “Carpathian Operation”.
Three months after the Allies landed in Normandy, on the other side of Europe burst a frantic battle between the Soviet Red Army supported by the Czechoslovak Corps and the defending German and Hungarian forces fortified in the Carpathian Mountains on the Slovak-Polish border.
Battle began in September 1944 and was planned to be a 5 days operation. Due to various reasons it changed into a 5 week long misery in the Carpathian Mountains. German and Hungarian defence led by Gotthard Heinrici contained about 100,000 soldiers, 2,000 artillery pieces and 350 tanks.
The offensive party was composed of the Soviet armies led by Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev of the 1st Ukrainian Front, and by Marshals Kirill Moskalenko and Andrei Grechko. The Soviet total power was from 120,000 to 150,000 Soviet soldiers.
The 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps was commanded by General Ludvik Svoboda and the strength of the army was about 16,000 Czechoslovak soldiers. The armies were equipped with guns and weapons including 1,517 artillery pieces, 1,724 mortars and 1,000 tanks.
After the weeks of the fights stuck in mud, blood and fog the Germans were finally defeated and had to retreat. The price that had to be paid for this bitter victory of the Soviet and Czechoslovak armies was high – about 138,000 casualties on both sides in 50 days.
http://www.dukla-battlefield.com/
http://ww2live.com/en/content/world-war-2-27-awesome-images-tank-remains-valley-death-dukla-pass-one-most-bloody-battles
http://travel.spectator.sme.sk/articles/1212/living_history_in_the_valley_of_death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dukla_Pass
Additional video footage :
https://youtu.be/bfYmDMvhNIo
https://youtu.be/A23QmtPjx4o
@ col mikel COL Mikel J. Burroughs @ ltc stephen LTC Stephen C. @ ltc stephen LTC Stephen F. @ ltc frank LTC (Join to see) @ ltc john LTC John Mohor @ maj william Maj William W. "Bill" Price @ maj ivan LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. @ capt marty Maj Marty Hogan @ smsgt doc SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas @ tsgt joe TSgt Joe C. @ sra christopher SrA Christopher Wright @ msg andrew MSG Andrew White @ sfc william SFC William Farrell @ ssg robert SSG Robert Webster @ sgt david SGT (Join to see) @ sgt david SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth @ sp5 mark SP5 Mark Kuzinski @ spc margaret SPC Margaret Higgins Alan K. Cynthia Croft
Today a peaceful rural area on the Slovak Polish border, the Dukla Mountain Pass witnessed one of the biggest and most bloody battles of WWII on the Eastern Front - The Battle of Dukla Pass, officially known
as the “Carpathian Operation”.
Three months after the Allies landed in Normandy, on the other side of Europe burst a frantic battle between the Soviet Red Army supported by the Czechoslovak Corps and the defending German and Hungarian forces fortified in the Carpathian Mountains on the Slovak-Polish border.
Battle began in September 1944 and was planned to be a 5 days operation. Due to various reasons it changed into a 5 week long misery in the Carpathian Mountains. German and Hungarian defence led by Gotthard Heinrici contained about 100,000 soldiers, 2,000 artillery pieces and 350 tanks.
The offensive party was composed of the Soviet armies led by Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev of the 1st Ukrainian Front, and by Marshals Kirill Moskalenko and Andrei Grechko. The Soviet total power was from 120,000 to 150,000 Soviet soldiers.
The 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps was commanded by General Ludvik Svoboda and the strength of the army was about 16,000 Czechoslovak soldiers. The armies were equipped with guns and weapons including 1,517 artillery pieces, 1,724 mortars and 1,000 tanks.
After the weeks of the fights stuck in mud, blood and fog the Germans were finally defeated and had to retreat. The price that had to be paid for this bitter victory of the Soviet and Czechoslovak armies was high – about 138,000 casualties on both sides in 50 days.
http://www.dukla-battlefield.com/
http://ww2live.com/en/content/world-war-2-27-awesome-images-tank-remains-valley-death-dukla-pass-one-most-bloody-battles
http://travel.spectator.sme.sk/articles/1212/living_history_in_the_valley_of_death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Dukla_Pass
Additional video footage :
https://youtu.be/bfYmDMvhNIo
https://youtu.be/A23QmtPjx4o
@ col mikel COL Mikel J. Burroughs @ ltc stephen LTC Stephen C. @ ltc stephen LTC Stephen F. @ ltc frank LTC (Join to see) @ ltc john LTC John Mohor @ maj william Maj William W. "Bill" Price @ maj ivan LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. @ capt marty Maj Marty Hogan @ smsgt doc SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas @ tsgt joe TSgt Joe C. @ sra christopher SrA Christopher Wright @ msg andrew MSG Andrew White @ sfc william SFC William Farrell @ ssg robert SSG Robert Webster @ sgt david SGT (Join to see) @ sgt david SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth @ sp5 mark SP5 Mark Kuzinski @ spc margaret SPC Margaret Higgins Alan K. Cynthia Croft
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Digitalizovany prepis 8 mm cb filmu natoceneho 15.11.2014 kamerou Eumig C3 na reen a living history akcii Dukla-Korejovce 2014. Autor filmu: Marek Mesko, aut...
Thanks for sharing the video and the summary of the Battle of Dukla Mountain Pass SGT John " Mac " McConnell. It seems that this Battle was widely known as the Valley of Death where approximately 30,000 German and Hungarian allies were killed while 80,000 to 123,000 Soviet and Czech soldiers were killed during the course of this battle.
the Carpathian Mountains saw fierce battles in WWI and WWII.
Since the battle was fought in eastern Europe much of the information is Russian.
Here is an image of the Dukla Soviet Battle Map in Russian; 1944-10 Soviet tanks and infantry at Dukla; 1944-10 Czech soldiers by their transport near Dukla Mountain Pass; 1944-08 G, coded 413 of Hptm Graf von Luttichau's I Battalion 1st Panzer Regiment, 1st Panzer Division; Poland Summer 1944.jpg
Here is a silent video of German Army camp life at Dukla Pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQbPmIe45Xw
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx Maj Marty Hogan PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SPC Margaret Higgins MSgt Jason McClish AN Christopher Crayne LTC Bill Koski SPC Tom DeSmet SGT Charles H. Hawes LTC Wayne Brandon SGT (Join to see) SGT Michael Thorin
the Carpathian Mountains saw fierce battles in WWI and WWII.
Since the battle was fought in eastern Europe much of the information is Russian.
Here is an image of the Dukla Soviet Battle Map in Russian; 1944-10 Soviet tanks and infantry at Dukla; 1944-10 Czech soldiers by their transport near Dukla Mountain Pass; 1944-08 G, coded 413 of Hptm Graf von Luttichau's I Battalion 1st Panzer Regiment, 1st Panzer Division; Poland Summer 1944.jpg
Here is a silent video of German Army camp life at Dukla Pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQbPmIe45Xw
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx Maj Marty Hogan PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SPC Margaret Higgins MSgt Jason McClish AN Christopher Crayne LTC Bill Koski SPC Tom DeSmet SGT Charles H. Hawes LTC Wayne Brandon SGT (Join to see) SGT Michael Thorin
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Thanks for the video John, the howitzers online was amazing. We bivouacked overnight near a battery of M198 155 Howitzers one night. I woke up early and saw them hustling around, they had received a pre-dawn fire mission. The watch and I woke the rest of my team up and I told them, "let's move"; we were just leaving as the ground began to jump. Pretty impressive stuff.
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