Axis OdB at Sidi Nsir

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  1. Kustosz

    Kustosz Member

    Hi, I'm looking for detailed axis Order of Battle at Sidi Nsir in North-East Tunisia in early 1943.
    To be more precise I would like to know if German sources can say anything about Italian self propelled guns unit, that fought there. Three Italian vehicles were photographed in this area (two guns and one command vehicle), so I suppose it was at least one battery.
     
  2. jwsleser

    jwsleser Well-Known Member

    What is the date of the action you are looking at?

    v/r Jeff
     
  3. Uncle Target

    Uncle Target Mist over Dartmoor

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  4. Kustosz

    Kustosz Member

    Thank you.
     
  5. Kustosz

    Kustosz Member

    26 February 1943 or something around that date.
     
  6. Kustosz

    Kustosz Member

    So...I didn't find anything about Italian SPG unit in those documents, but while searching for something else online I found a short work titled "German Kampfgruppe in North Africa 1941 through 1943".
    Under Kampfgruppe Lang there was an "Italian Battery" listed among other units, which fits here perfectly, as photos I mentioned were taken right on the Lang's road towards Sidi Nsir.

    Sources listed in that work go as follows:
    - The American Historical Association for the Study of War Documents and the National
    Archives and Records Service (National Archives Microcopy No. T-78, Roll 404.).

    - Bender, R.J., & Law, R.D., Uniforms, Organization and History of the Afrikakorps,
    R.J.Bender, Publisher, USA, 1973.
    Copyright GFN 1992 (?)

    I don't have access to any of those, so if anyone has and is willing to check them (or at least tell how credible they are) I'd really appreciate that.
     

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