The Oranienbaum Front | The Battle of Narva 1944 - Ep. 1

Hello, welcome to The AceDestroyer and welcome to the first part of the Narva 1944 series. This first part will be all about the introduction to the campaign as well as the battles on the Oranienbaum front, where the Narva 1944 campaign started. As usual with my WW2 series we will see the battles primarily through the eyes of one unit. This time it is the 3rd SS Panzer Corps of Felix Steiner. I have chosen this unit mainly because of the information available about the unit. Unfortunately Soviet sources are extremely scarce, but I have done my utmost to also mention names, units on their side as well, in order to come to a good whole. I hope you’ll enjoy this first episode! Don’t forget to like and subscribe and do leave a comment down below! Cheers!



INFORMATION
https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2015/09...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranien...
Landwehr, R. (1981). Narva 1944: The Waffen-SS and the Battle for Europe. Great Britain: Bibliophile Legion Books.
[Handle this book with great care! Filled with SS Bias, but it gives the reader a good overview of the dispositions of the units involved. It also gives a brief overview of the fighting, but as mentioned, filled with SS bias.

United States Airforce. (1984). Soviet Military Thought
https://www.tracesofwar.nl/persons/14...



FOOTAGE
My homemade maps
All WW2 footage come from ‘Die Deutsche Wochenschau’ which has largely been banned on YouTube. The ones used in this video are: No. 692 (December 12, 1943) and No. 705 (8 March 1944)
Pictures are from Wikipedia and TracesOfWar

MUSIC: All music is from the YouTube Audio Library (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/...)
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