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Игорь Куртуков
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30.11.2004 20:13:45
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WWII;
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Ре: Игорю Куртукову...
>Игорь, а не могли бы вы что-нить по-подробнее про штурм Эбен Эмаель дать. Как там на самом деле было.
Слегка подробнее - можно. Вот обещанная цитата из Гудмундссона:
"The attack on Eban-Emael is often, in books the main purpose of which is to glorify parachutists, credited to the parachutists who were dropped on EbanEmael on May 10 and 11. The first group of "paras," however, was captured by the Belgians and the second was trapped between the fortress and the Albert Canal until the assault engineer battalion linked up with them."
Т.е. часть парaшютистов была захвачена Бельгийцами, часть оказалась зажатой между фортом и каналом. Вобщем роль паращютистов в основном свелась к ослеплению форта, чтобы обеспечить проход войск по мостам. Собственно штурм форта случился на следующий день. Вот описание штурма, оттуда же:
"On May 11, however, the Germans took this fortress, not with a division or even a regiment, but with a battalion of combat engineers acting in concert with a glider-borne engineer platoon. The German heavy artillery fired, not in a vain attempt to destroy the fort, but to create craters in the flat terrain covered by the field guns in their armored cupolas. Other German guns fired at the cupolas themselves, again not to destroy, but to suppress the fire of the occupants.
When darkness fell, the German engineers crossed, in rubber boats, an artificial lake that separated them from Eban-Emael. Using the shell holes made by their own guns for cover, they crept forward. At dawn, flamethrowers sent streams of burning oil onto the embrasures from which the machine guns responsible for the close defense of the fort were expected to fire. Reeling from the heat and blinded by the smoke, the machine gunners failed to see the small team that had rushed forward with a huge shaped charge. A few seconds later, the charge went off, punching a hole in one of the main cupolas of the fort. Other explosions followed. One by one, the steel turrets that housed the teeth of Eban-Emael were destroyed. By the end of the morning, the fort was defenseless and surrendered."
Т.е. артиллерия наделала воронок, саперы используя воронки приблизились к форту, задавили пулеметные точки огнеметами и подорвали башни кумулятивными зарядами. После чего форт пал.
Имеются и противоречащие этой картине описания других авторов, так что для проуяснения вопроса нужно обрасьатся к источникам Гудмундссона.