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- ziggy wiseman
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horses
perhaps someone can tell us how many horses were "used"by the german army in ww2?
- Indra Ross
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Horses in WWII
Does that include the ones eaten by the starving soldiers on the Eastern Front.
I do have a plaque that was given to every person that contributed a horse to the war effort.
If you have read anything about the Eastern Front particularly the time period of the Stalingrad assault, the German soldiers were starving and suffering from dysentery.
So when a dead horse was encountered on the steppes of Russia, soldiers would attempt to recover the meat.
However quite commonly a Russian's snipers bullet would respond......
Thanks Indra
I do have a plaque that was given to every person that contributed a horse to the war effort.
If you have read anything about the Eastern Front particularly the time period of the Stalingrad assault, the German soldiers were starving and suffering from dysentery.
So when a dead horse was encountered on the steppes of Russia, soldiers would attempt to recover the meat.
However quite commonly a Russian's snipers bullet would respond......
Thanks Indra
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Hello!
After WWI the germans had problems because many horses were killed in the war. Nevertheless until 1939 germany had built a stock of 3.800.000 horses.
Peace-army: 180 000 horses and mulies
additional at mobilization : 393 000
from Remonte-offices: 15 000
replacements during the war: 267 000
From germany in Total: 855 000
captured:
NL, B, FR: 80 000
Poland: 30 000
Russia: 310 000
jugoslavia: 10 000
italian: 5 000
Total: 435 000
taken from occupied territories: 1.450.000
bought from neutral states: 10 000
Makes a total of: 2.750.000
Source: KTB OKW April 1945
Christoph
After WWI the germans had problems because many horses were killed in the war. Nevertheless until 1939 germany had built a stock of 3.800.000 horses.
Peace-army: 180 000 horses and mulies
additional at mobilization : 393 000
from Remonte-offices: 15 000
replacements during the war: 267 000
From germany in Total: 855 000
captured:
NL, B, FR: 80 000
Poland: 30 000
Russia: 310 000
jugoslavia: 10 000
italian: 5 000
Total: 435 000
taken from occupied territories: 1.450.000
bought from neutral states: 10 000
Makes a total of: 2.750.000
Source: KTB OKW April 1945
Christoph
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Equine Power
For supposedly "modern" and mechanized army, the Wehrmacht still had a very large number of horses doing the work. I have seen numerous photographs of horse and mule-drawn cassions schleping over the plains and roads of WWll Europe.
The American Army was reluctant to abandon the horse. Cavalry units were maintained up until the outbreak of WWll. Fort Leonard Wood was the home base of the horse cavalry for many years. Ceremonial cavalary units are still maintained there. The US Army also had to employ mules to pack supplies in parts of the Italian campaign.
When I was in the service a general retired and insisted on having a review of troops as his last offical action. We WACS and several male companies were drawn up on the parade ground to satisfy his wish. This fellow did not pass by us in a jeep or car. He reviewed the units the old-fashioned way, on horseback, as he started, dressed as a horse cavalry officer of the late 1930's. A sentimental farewell to the way he orginally entered the service. The armed services can harbor great nostalgics in their ranks.
The horse isn't entirely finished in modern warfare either. Some units in Afghanistan are riding horseback in the mountains to hunt Al-Queda.
The American Army was reluctant to abandon the horse. Cavalry units were maintained up until the outbreak of WWll. Fort Leonard Wood was the home base of the horse cavalry for many years. Ceremonial cavalary units are still maintained there. The US Army also had to employ mules to pack supplies in parts of the Italian campaign.
When I was in the service a general retired and insisted on having a review of troops as his last offical action. We WACS and several male companies were drawn up on the parade ground to satisfy his wish. This fellow did not pass by us in a jeep or car. He reviewed the units the old-fashioned way, on horseback, as he started, dressed as a horse cavalry officer of the late 1930's. A sentimental farewell to the way he orginally entered the service. The armed services can harbor great nostalgics in their ranks.
The horse isn't entirely finished in modern warfare either. Some units in Afghanistan are riding horseback in the mountains to hunt Al-Queda.
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But we were still the first major army to give them up.White Leopard wrote:The American Army was reluctant to abandon the horse. Cavalry units were maintained up until the outbreak of WWll. Fort Leonard Wood was the home base of the horse cavalry for many years. Ceremonial cavalary units are still maintained there. The US Army also had to employ mules to pack supplies in parts of the Italian campaign.
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Agree to some extent.charlie don't surf wrote:I think horses could be very suitable in some terrain even today.
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It is hard to believe how Wehrmacht would have survived through Russian rasputitsa without their horses. Horse-drawn vehicles were only thing that was moving after all roads had become bottomless mud swamps. Only motorized vehicles that could cope such enviroment were Steyr RSO fully tracked trucks, but these were available only at later stages of eastern campaign and never at sufficient quantity.
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Hello to all ; something on this........................
Cavalry units in Poland!
Source: http://odkrywca.pl/luska,646377.html.
Cheers. Raúl M .
Cavalry units in Poland!
Source: http://odkrywca.pl/luska,646377.html.
Cheers. Raúl M .
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