NARA rolls made digital

[Vit Reukopf]

Interesting, thanks. Still puzzling though.

So it's a brand new unit which got destroyed during its first engagement, or something like that...? I am thinking of at least one similar case in Septembre 1944 in Lorraine, but can't tell how many AFV the German lost then.

424 was the renamed schw. Panz.Abt. 501. So, they were an experienced outfit.

Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501(424)
The battalion was established on 10 May 1942 in Erfurt, combining the two separate heavy
tank companies-501 and 502 (formed on the 16 February 1942)-plus personnel from
the local Panzer-Ersatz-Abteilung 1 (1st Armored replacement Battalion) and from the
armor gunnery school at Putlos. Commanding officer: Major Lueder.
21 December 1944: The battalion is redesignated as schwere Panzer-Abteilung 424
and attached to the XXIV. Panzer-Korps.

There was another battalion on the eastern front that had 55 Tiger 1s, 507 during the same time period. Each battalion had 52 tanks in combat-ready condition. This is the peak of their career. Both were on the Russian front.
The 501st suffered heavy losses in August 1944. Losing about 20 Tiger 2s. At Lisow it lost considerably less, but as a result of the battle it lost contact with its supply units. It then fell apart and within the next 5-7 days disappeared altogether. There were no more Tigers for 501-424. They received 2 Panthers, 2 Noshorns and an incomplete company of Hatzers. 6 or 8 in a company.
Vit.

[REKOV]

Dear gentlemen, good afternoon!..

Please, is there an opportunity to purchase the following Rolls for free or at a reasonable price:

T-315 Roll 518 9.I.D
T-315 Roll 519 9.I.D
T-315 Roll 520 9.I.D
T-315 Roll 521 9.I.D

T-315 Roll 1066 73.I.D.

The fact is that in Roll 516, Roll 517 - handwritten combat logs, in which it is very difficult to make out the handwriting. I am interested in the Roll, where the combat log 9.I.D. for this period, August - December 1942, is printed on a typewriter.

Thank you in advance for any answer.

[Rossano]

Hello gentlemen
Once again I don' t succeed to enter directly JcCalvin' s site. Until yesterday I entered it directly thru Internet Explorer (simply downloading "jccalvin.ddns.net" from "preferred files/programs"
Internet Explorer is today definitively out (doesn' t work any longer). So I tried thru Microsoft Edge but by typing "ftp://jccalvin.ddns.net" I am transferred to Google Chrome and not to JcCalvin' s site.
So I tried thru Filezilla, which uploads indeed JcCalvin' s site but then I can' t open there the files inside of the rolls.
So, how the hell can I now enter the site DIRECTLY and OPEN the files in the rolls like I did thru Internet Explorer ?
Thanks for Your help

[nickterry]

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@USNatArchives catalog is acting up right now, but they've finally added another RG 242 serial: Records of the Deutsche Wirtschaftsbetriebe of the SS Wirtschafts-u.-Verwaltungshauptamt, 1936-1945. Microfilm Publication T976 - 37 rolls
https://catalog.archives.gov/search-wit ... aId%3Adesc

[nickterry]

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More uploads from RG 242 by @USNatArchives - 276 reels of T321, Records of Headquarters, German Air Force High Command (Oberkommando der Luftwaffe/OKL). https://catalog.archives.gov/search-within/7788651 - Hopefully a few more T-series to follow, if past patterns are any indication.

Two RG 242 serials and 313 reels this week so far and it's only Wednesday. The pattern also follows precedent in alternating between military and civilian/Party/SS records. Previous patterns in the winter of 2022/2023 with RG 238 would suggest more serials will follow, of varying sizes. Whether or not we get one of the biggies (T78 or T312-315) remains to be seen, but at least there is movement again.

[nickterry]

So far from RG 242, excluding some small pre-1918 serials and some very small Foreign Office serials.

T76 Records of the Organization Todt (7 reels)
T77 Records of the Headquarters of the German Armed Forces High Command (1,687 reels)
T81 Records of the National Socialist German Labor Party (740 reels)
T84 Various German Records (489 microfilm reels)
T175 Records of the Reich Leader of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Chief of the German Police (678 microfilm reels)
T178 Fragmentary Records of Various Reich Ministries and Offices (28 microfilm reels)
T311 Records of German Field Commands, Army Groups (305 microfilm reels)
T321 Records of Headquarters, German Air Force High Command (276 reels)
T354 Various Schutzstaffel (SS) Records, Einwandererzentralstelle, Waffen-SS, and SS-Oberabschnitte (799 microfilm reels)
T454 Records of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories (167 reels)
T501 Records of Rear Areas, Occupied Territories, and Others (363 microfilm reels)
T608 Records of Headquarters, German Navy High Command (8 reels)
T976 Records of the Economic Enterprises of the Schutzstaffel (SS) (37 reels)

Links in my open access sources index: https://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot ... s-and.html

2023 so far was: T76, T321, T608, T976, thus only 328 reels compared with about 5,000 reels from RG 242 in 2022.

[Mori]

T321 is a great, new source. It has never been a popular series in private trade. Same for T976, by the way.

[j keenan]

Thanks for the links Nick

[nickterry]

T321 is a great, new source. It has never been a popular series in private trade. Same for T976, by the way.

Only catch is the T321 descriptive pamphlet is just #24 so only covers the first 68 or so reels. If anyone knows where the other OKL finding guides are, please point to them, as googling did not throw up an immediate result. Sometimes finding guides are buried in the NARA microfilm catalog which is where I would look next.

[Piet Duits]

Guide 92

[nickterry]

Guide 92

Yes but where is it online, if it's online?

[Piet Duits]

Sturmpanzer.com?

[nickterry]

currently 'deceptive site ahead' for that guide's upload, so looks like a little virus check is needed by the host. The index page is clean:
https://www.sturmpanzer.com/Default.asp ... em=1&sec=1

[nickterry]

OKL guide 92 at maparchive.ru
https://www.maparchive.ru/nara-doc/luftwaffe/T321B.pdf

[nickterry]

Big news, the first 400 reels from T314 have been uploaded

https://twitter.com/historiannick/statu ... 8398535864
More @USNatArchives uploads from RG 242 - T971 von Rhoden collection on Luftwaffe (57 reels), and 400 of 1670 currently mislabelled reels from T314 Corps records. https://catalog.archives.gov/search-wit ... aId%3Adesc

The T314 reels are marked as Air Force High Command but the uploaded reels in the display and downloads are corps records.

Presumably the balance of T314 will be added in due course. This is the first time a longer serial was uploaded in pieces and not in one go.

The most recent uploads are all scanned much more efficiently, so the MB per reel ratio is a LOT smaller; T314/400 is only 77 MB but the scan quality seems fine, the pages and frame numbers are perfectly readable.