BIR HACHEIM

January 29 1942 after the Bengazi's fall Rommel reaches the at Bomba's golf and to Ain el Gazala's line. At May 26. The Axis forces consists in the 15st e 31st Panzer Divisions (320 combat vehicles), the Italian Division Ariete (240 combat vehicles), the Italian Division Trieste and a German Motorized Division. The Axis forces wait for the arrive of second Italian Division; the Littorio.

CURIOSITIES AND FACTS - ROMMEL'S DECEASES

During his campaigns in Africa, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, "The Desert Fox," himself made repeated trips back to Berlin due to illness. As evinced by newsreels showing Rommel often with a handkerchief to his nose, Rommel suffered from nasal diphtheria. Reported Rommel's medical advisor in August 1942:

DAK TODAY - AfrikaKorps LEGO Diorama

Diorama shows a group of German soldiers
You can find here a model of the Sd.Kfz.222 armoured card and the Zundapp motorcycle.
There are also a tent with some DAK stuff, an oasis, a camel and a Bedouin.
(Built in August 2008)

More about it here: Plastikowe Wytwory Ciamka

DAK GUNS - Panzer IV - Medium Tank

A Panzer IV penetrating the Mersa Matrouh perimeter

AFRIKAKORPS PICTURE GALLERY 02

This is an unsorted DAK related Pictures Gallery. The new pictures appear at later related posts. Some pictures may be replaced by better ones.

Luftwaffe

THE SECRET WAR

Not all the battles was won on the battlefield. The intelligence, diplomacy and the secret operations, played an important role to both sides...

THE SECRET WAR - WE WAITED FOR THEM IN DAKAR

At some night in the ends of 1942, the German submarines fleets of the South Atlantic received urgent order for drive at all speed to an encounter point in Dakar. Few days later, a very superior number of those submarines outlined the western tip of Africa. In earth, Vichy French troops occupied the strong coastal defenses that, two years before, had repelled the attack of the British and Free French Armies, commanded by General De Gaulle. The force of American invasion that crossed the Atlantic would fall into a disastrous ambush. That was the opinion of the German High Command.

DAK HAND GUNS - WALTHER P38

When Hitler became the full power in the Germany in 1933, he'd began the preparations for the war. The development of the new pistole, to replace aging Lugers was one of such preparations. Carl Walther company began development of the new military pistole in mid-1930's, and in 1938 the Werhmacht (German Army) adopted Walther MP model experimental pistole as "Pistole 38".