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Als je die van de 352 ID bedoeld (i.p.v. de twee van de 12th SS die de oorlog wel overleefde...) dan nee, niet zo veel. Ik kom enkel wat sporadische zinnen tegen. Wel handig om de eenheid er bij te vermelden, anders denkt iedereen dat je 't over Kurt Meyer hebt... :wink:

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Ik vond nog dit in Victory in the West:

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[...] Between Crépon and the Seulles the 69th Brigade met considerable opposition from a battle group of the 352nd Division. Its 915th Grenadier Regiment stationed near Bayeux had been ordered, early that morning, to move westward to deal with a reported airborne landing between the Vire and Carentan. When it was proved that no such landing had taken place but that a battalion round Mont Fleury had been overwhelmed, the grenadier regiment was ordered to retrace its steps, to move eastwards and to counter-attack towards Crépon. On the way back one of its battalions and some assault guns were diverted to oppose the threatened American penetration at Omaha. The rest of the battle group consisting of the 1st Battalion, 915th Regiment, the 352nd Fusilier Battalion and ten guns of the 352nd Anti-tank Battalion reached the country between Villiers le Sec and Bazenville at about 4 p.m. In the ensuing fight with the 50th Division, the German commander was killed and his infantry forced to withdraw across the Seulles, where some were taken prisoner near St. Gabriel by troops of the 69th Brigade who were already south of the river.

An entry in the German Seventh Army log records a 'strong penetration in the area of the 915th Grenadier Regiment east of Bayeux ...' and another German account states that only ninety men survived of the battle group engaged. The remnants were attached to the 726th Regiment which was now ordered to establish a line from Coulombs to Asnelles - that is through the country already occupied by the 50th Division!

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En in Beyond the Beachhead staat:

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[...] At 3:10 A.M., he [Kraiss] ordered his precious division, labeled Kampfgruppe Meyer after the commander of the 915th Regiment, to move westward by truck from its encampment south of Bayeux all the way to the Vire estuary where the enemy paratroopers had been reported. Kampfgruppe Meyer was a powerful force that consisted of the entire 915th and the 352nd Füsilierbataillon, more than one-third of Kraiss's infantry strength.

Kraiss overreacted. The paratroopers that so troubled Kraiss turned out to be Americans from the 101st Airborne Division who had missed their drop zone and strayed into the 352nd's sector. The Yanks' meager force hardly threatened Kraiss. In fact, more than enough German troops were situated near the drop site to contain the errant paratroopers without the assistance of Kampfgruppe Meyer.

It did not take long for Kraiss to realize his mistake, for at 5:50 A.M. he issued orders to Meyer to halt the Kampfgruppe and await further instructions. At that time the first of several frantic messages from the coastal Widerstandsnest reached 352nd Division headquarters, reporting that enemy warships were bombarding the beach defenses.

Kraiss held Kampfgruppe Meyer in place for almost two more hours, even after he had received definitive reports that the Americans were landing in force on the beaches near Vierville and St. Laurent. At 7:35 A.M., sixty-five minutes after H-Hour, Kraiss decided to commit a single battalion from the Kampfgruppe to help contain the Americans. The battalion was expected to reach the beach by 9:30 A.M., but Allied fighter-bombers delayed its arrival until early afternoon, long after the Yanks had made their decisive penetrations of the German defenses.

The remaining two battalions of Kampfgruppe Meyer were committed at 8:35 A.M. against the British 50th Division, which had landed on Gold Beach an hour after the start of the Omaha invasion. Gold lay fifteen miles east of Omaha, and due to harassment by Allied aircraft, the Kampfgruppe took most of the day to get there. By the time it arrived at Gold, the British had already cracked the coastal defences. During the 50th Division's breakout from the beach, the Kampfgruppe was almost annihilated.

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Als ik hier zoek op 'Meyer' en de 6de juni dan vind ik deze:

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Nachname: Meyer
Vorname: Karl
Dienstgrad: Oberstleutnant
Geburtsdatum: 26.03.1898
Geburtsort: Bevensen
Todes-/Vermisstendatum: 06.06.1944
Todes-/Vermisstenort: Raum Bayeux

Karl Meyer ruht auf der Kriegsgräberstätte in St. Desir-de-Lisieux (Frankreich) .
Endgrablage: Block 1 Reihe 41 Grab 888


Je vind nog wel andere Karl's en Ernst's maar die zijn gesneuveld op 7 juni of verder en hebben een veel lagere rang.

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