Steven Zaloga
@ZalogaSteven
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Author of military history books: tanks, missiles, US Army ETO campaign, Red Army
Joined November 2022
@SapperJaeger @OspreyBooks @orbatmapper @battle_order @MilHiVisualized @Cappyarmy I'm not doing any Osprey Duel series at the moment. The book subject is heavily dependent on the acquisition editor. I would submit 5-6 potential titles, and the editor + sales team would pick one.
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@FWD_Publishing SA-2 (Western designation), more specifically a V-750VM (11DU) missile of the S-75 system.
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@history_under Some of the last surviving examples of the original LVT-1 amtracs. Only other one I know about is the one at the USMC museum at Quantico, VA.
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@HGWDavie Not yet available (or listed) on the US branch of Amazon. Instead, they came up with a bizarre alternative.
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Vol. 1B of "Defending Normandy" just came in. Typical of the very high standards of the first volume. Superb research, highly detailed text and lavish maps. A "must-have" for anyone with serious interest in the campaign on the Cotentin Peninsula and Cherbourg.
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@klaasm67 I'm not a uniform specialist. They may be wearing the special BDU used by the 10th Mountain Division.
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@MarkRea33935465 Yes. He basically argues that was the excuse that was cooked up for why Capa took so few photos on the beach. The author examines who might have been to blame for this story.
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@sonsofMMA As of 16 Dec 44, the 741st had 43 M4 (75mm), 0 76mm, 6 M4(105), 16 M5A1, 4 dozer tanks, 4 tank recovery vehicles. This was the only tank battalion in town but there was the 644th TD Bn in the twin villages with M10 3-in GMC.
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@CalumDouglas1 There was a UK/USA program to exploit captured German files, after which many files went to NARA, PRO, IWM, etc. and then back to Germany. But some, esp. technical stuff, stayed with UK or US intel agencies for further exploitation. German tank stuff was at APG in the early 80s.
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@RossWCable @James1940 @WeHaveWaysPod @ww2wtg @project4_4 Both 1.SS-Pz.Div. and 12.SS-Pz.Div were smashed in Normandy and rebuilt in the autumn of 1944 for the Ardennes offensive. They constituted the I.SS-Pz.Korps of the 6.Panzer Armee on the northern shoulder of the German attack in December 1944.
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@cmholm The figures in my book come from: N. Ya. Lysukhin, "RVSN v sisteme natsionalnoy bezopastnosti Rossii: Istoriko-politologicheskiy analiz", (Moscow: 1997). More recent accounts give no production figures. R-2 production began in June 1953, but I don't have an end date for R-1.
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@militaryhistori What is still not widely known was who came up with the idea of asking sports questions to ferret out Germans in US uniforms. It was Earl Browning, a US army counter-intelligence officer and later case officer for Klaus Barbie. I worked with him at DMS in the late 1970s.
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@klaasm67 @jsbhulme @Tom_Antonov Alistair Horne's book started my interest in the 1940 Battle of France.
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@FootstepsHeroes @militaryhistori @kershaw_alex I haven’t done any work with the Capa photos as access is complicated and reproduction rights are too expensive for my books. I have done photo research at NARA (111-SC, OWI, Navy, USCG, etc.), AHEC, and Ohio University collections
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80 years ago. Op. Herbstnebel is failing. On 20 Dec, OB West shifts the Schwerpunkt from 6.Pz.Armee to 5.Pz.Armee due to the failure of 1.SS-Pz.Korps to secure a breakthrough. The 2.SS-Pz.Korps is shifted to 5.Pz.Armee. This is the OKH’s Ardennes map of 20 Dec.
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80 years ago. The 12.SS-Pz.Div. attempts to reach Butgenbach, but is stymied by the 2/26th Infantry defense of the Dom Butgenbach manor farm. Three days of costly fighting put an end to the German advance.
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@291stECB And, sadly, almost completely unknown. He was a critical leader at Aachen and during the Ardennes fighting.
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