; more follows...........The light AA guns of Abbeville.
On May 31, 1940 came the order of the division, the Abbeville bridgehead must be retained at all costs. Early in the morning the French heavy tanks appear barking before Moyenville, Hauptmann K saw them from the steeple of the church. The German light machine guns opened up and it were heard the anti-tank guns' explosions that seem to have revived again. Yesterday twenty armored came to the attack from the forest, but today only four, soon they were burning like torches.
A few nests of resistance and a French observation post are detected south of Mont Cesar; the 2. Battery opened fire on them. Naturally answered the French artillery, but not on Mont Cesar, but slightly behind on the groves, ravines and roads; the ammunition vehicles!. Soon several of them are touched, burned and exploded, scattering its remains close by.
Sources: Der Adler Nº 9, 10 y 11 - 1941.
http://www.geschichtsforum.de/f68/der-b ... ild-38083/.
Militaria Magazine Hs21 Le Mois Terrible La Bataille D'abbeville.
Cheers. Raúl M
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