Re: The 250 ID - Krasny Bor 1943.
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:08 pm
Hello to all ; more follows.......................
Annihilating the MLR.
The Reserve Battalion 250.
The luck of the Reserve Battalion 250º was not going to be less terrible. It was deployed cutting the highway of Leningrad-Moscow and was evident that the Soviets would try to release that route. This one was the unique sector where the Spanish lines were something more than a tenuous line of infantry, since Captain Miranda, Commanding Officer of the Battalion, had put in forward edge the 2ª/Res. 250 (Ulzurrun) and the 3ª/Res. 250 (Oroquieta), maintaining the 1ª/Res. 250 (Auba) like maneuvering force and the 4ª/Res. 250 (Anda) in positions to the rear to furnish support with its heavy weapons of infantry.
After the demolishing action of its artillery, the 72ª Soviet Rifle Division, whereas one of its Regiments fixed the IIIº/262 of captain García Calvo to its positions, went on to the offensive against the Reserve Battalion 250º with the mass of its force and with tank support. The attack was repulsed with serious own losses, but successfully, by the 3ª/Res. 250 of Oroquieta.
However, in the neighboring sector, the Russians broke through the line of the 2ª/Res. 250 of Ulzurrun in spite of its brave defense (Ulzurrun was wounded from the beginning of the combat). This Company fell back towards the Ishora, but the Commanding Officer of the Battalion, Miranda, led himself a counterattack carried out by the 1ª/Res. 250 and the rest of the 2ª/Res. 250. The action was settled with a bloody drain for the Spaniards. Miranda and Ulzurrun fell during its development, while Auba was wounded. Actually, the front of the Reserve battalion 250º was broken and only the 3ª/Res. 250 (reinforced by one of the Platoons of the 1ª/Res. 250) remained in its positions.
Like in both previous cases, the reserves located in the rear of the sector tried to seal the breach. The 1º/Expl. 250 of the Lieutenant Rey launched a counterattack with such aim, but suffering to many losses, among them the lieutenant himself who was seriously wounded (Lieutenant Gavilán took command, until Captain Ortega, commander of the unit could reincorporate to his command post) and the death in combat of the lieutenant García Estepa. Finally the Squadron had to fall back towards the great meander of the Ishora.
Sources: Morir en Rusia. La División Azul en Krasny Bor.
http://members.libreopinion.com/ch1492/ ... u_div.html
Cheers. Raúl M .
Annihilating the MLR.
The Reserve Battalion 250.
The luck of the Reserve Battalion 250º was not going to be less terrible. It was deployed cutting the highway of Leningrad-Moscow and was evident that the Soviets would try to release that route. This one was the unique sector where the Spanish lines were something more than a tenuous line of infantry, since Captain Miranda, Commanding Officer of the Battalion, had put in forward edge the 2ª/Res. 250 (Ulzurrun) and the 3ª/Res. 250 (Oroquieta), maintaining the 1ª/Res. 250 (Auba) like maneuvering force and the 4ª/Res. 250 (Anda) in positions to the rear to furnish support with its heavy weapons of infantry.
After the demolishing action of its artillery, the 72ª Soviet Rifle Division, whereas one of its Regiments fixed the IIIº/262 of captain García Calvo to its positions, went on to the offensive against the Reserve Battalion 250º with the mass of its force and with tank support. The attack was repulsed with serious own losses, but successfully, by the 3ª/Res. 250 of Oroquieta.
However, in the neighboring sector, the Russians broke through the line of the 2ª/Res. 250 of Ulzurrun in spite of its brave defense (Ulzurrun was wounded from the beginning of the combat). This Company fell back towards the Ishora, but the Commanding Officer of the Battalion, Miranda, led himself a counterattack carried out by the 1ª/Res. 250 and the rest of the 2ª/Res. 250. The action was settled with a bloody drain for the Spaniards. Miranda and Ulzurrun fell during its development, while Auba was wounded. Actually, the front of the Reserve battalion 250º was broken and only the 3ª/Res. 250 (reinforced by one of the Platoons of the 1ª/Res. 250) remained in its positions.
Like in both previous cases, the reserves located in the rear of the sector tried to seal the breach. The 1º/Expl. 250 of the Lieutenant Rey launched a counterattack with such aim, but suffering to many losses, among them the lieutenant himself who was seriously wounded (Lieutenant Gavilán took command, until Captain Ortega, commander of the unit could reincorporate to his command post) and the death in combat of the lieutenant García Estepa. Finally the Squadron had to fall back towards the great meander of the Ishora.
Sources: Morir en Rusia. La División Azul en Krasny Bor.
http://members.libreopinion.com/ch1492/ ... u_div.html
Cheers. Raúl M .