By Viktor Korzh
Purple megastar below The Baltic is the image memoir of a Soviet submariner in the course of his years at sea within the Baltic in the course of the moment international conflict. not just is that this an excellent checklist of the appalling stipulations persevered on those uncomplicated craft, yet a truly human account detailing the comradeship and tensions one of the team as they operated within the so much life-threatening stipulations. Written within the first individual, the writer vividly describes the numerous activities that he and his comrades have been excited by. lots of those have been winning and Korzh witnessed various engagements and sinkings of German transport. besides the fact that, it was once on no account a one-sided contest and there have been a few horrifyingly shut calls.
The relatively shallow waters of the Baltic have been lower than perfect for submarine conflict. probably the main harmful and dramatic second got here whilst his submarine turned entangled in netting. After frantic efforts, they only controlled to extricate themselves prior to being depth-charged. one other consistent risk was once of mechanical malfunction.
This ebook may have powerful attract all people with an curiosity within the naval background of the second one global struggle. this can be very infrequent to have a unconditionally genuine Russian account, which has been fantastically translated into English. There are robust echoes during this exciting memoir of the vintage German U-boat tale Das Boot with its continuous motion and incessant underwater risk.
The writer was once born in 1912 within the small Russian village of Melguny, Viktor Korzh graduated from the Naval education collage in 1938 as a submariner engineer. His wartime stories are the topic of this ebook which was once first released as Reserve of power in 1966. After the warfare he remained concerned with the Submarine carrier as a researcher and teacher, retiring in 1960 as a Captain First Rank. Married with youngsters, Viktor Korzh died in St Petersburg in 1993.
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Both Corps commanders and all their Divisional commanders, who I visited in their own areas, were of the opinion that any major offensive action on our part would fail and probably with heavy losses. The NK 8th Division, a screening force, was along the west coast, but it played no important part in the impending action. The UN command sent the X Corps piecemeal, just arrived from its evacuation Page 39 Map 1. , December 1950. The authorized strength of a division was 18,935 officers and men.
In the west, north of Seoul, signs became more obvious, and CCF prisoner interrogations confirmed that a CCF attack on that section of the front was not far off. The centralcorridor road connecting Hongchon, Hoengsong, and Wonju was almost due northsouth if one ironed out the numerous twists and bends in it. On the thirtyfirst the French Battalion was shuffled around once again; this time it was reattached to the 23rd Infantry, and it stayed with that regiment throughout 1951. 14 The 72nd Tank Battalion could not cross the icy mountain passes from the south and was not present with the 2nd Division at Wonju at the end of December.
The UN command sent the X Corps piecemeal, just arrived from its evacuation Page 39 Map 1. , December 1950. The authorized strength of a division was 18,935 officers and men. UN strength was relatively stable in January 1951, with a maximum strength of 444,336. First, the Chinese attacks in the west require our attention. Farther east was the ROK III Corps with the ROK 2nd Division at its western boundary with the US 24th Division.