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5th Heavy Artillery Regiment at Odessa

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dragos

Posted: January 24, 2009 03:01 am

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Picture of Romanian guns of the V Army Corps artillery captured by the Soviets (155mm Schneider guns).

Source: Glory eternal, Defence of Odessa 1941, N. Krylov

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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 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 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.

Dénes	Posted: January 24, 2009 08:37 am
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4368 Member No.: 4 Joined: June 17, 2003	I published a similar photo, of much better quality, in vol. 2 of 'Barbarossa to Odessa', including the propaganda writing written on the cannon with chalk. Gen. Dénes This post has been edited by Dénes on January 24, 2009 02:34 pm

dragos	Posted: January 24, 2009 12:16 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 2397 Member No.: 2 Joined: February 11, 2003	What does the propaganda text says ?

Dénes	Posted: January 24, 2009 02:33 pm
Admin Group: Admin Posts: 4368 Member No.: 4 Joined: June 17, 2003	"Fashistskiye pushki" (Fascist guns). "Bol'she ne budet strelyat' po Odesse!" (Will not shoot at Odessa any more!). Gen. Dénes This post has been edited by Dénes on January 24, 2009 02:33 pm

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