.JPG)
MGC 9 AV JOÃO CRISÓTOMO 9
PLACA COM O NOME DO MGC E O MAPA DO MUNDO DA PAREDE DESAPARECIDOS...
MISSING IN ACTION. WHAT MAJOR REASONS CAN IT BE AND WHO´S BEHIND IT.
PLACA COM O NOME DO MGC E O MAPA DO MUNDO DA PAREDE DESAPARECIDOS...
MISSING IN ACTION. WHAT MAJOR REASONS CAN IT BE AND WHO´S BEHIND IT.
CASA DA MOEDA
9 5 8 22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_de_Oliveira_Gomes_da_Costa
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_de_Oliveira_Gomes_da_Costa
WWI
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeira_Guerra_Mundial
BATTLE OF LA LYS
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalha_de_La_Lys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lys_(1918)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_la_Lys_(1918)
http://www.webmatters.net/belgium/ww1_lys_3.htm
RUA EIDÓNIO PAIS - LISBOA
PAVILHÃO DOS DESPORTOS - PAVILHÃO CARLOS LOPES
PARQUE EDUARDO SETIMO
HEAVY RAIN, THUNDERING AND LIGHTNING
55.000 GERMAN TROOPS WITH PANZERS, HEAVY WEAPONRY AND ARTILLERY...
BRAGA
INFO PRESIDÊNCIA DA REPÚBLICAA - CML
RUA ROSA ARAUJO - ROSA... - ARAUJO... DEFENSOR DE CHAVEZ
BRITISH TROOPS RETREAT, LEAVE PORTUGUESE TROOPS ALONE IN THE DARK, AGAINST 55.000 GERMANS TROOPS...
http://www.bataille-de-la-lys.com/fr/attaque_allemande/prise_d_armentieres.html
http://www.bataille-de-la-lys.com/fr/documents/children_story_of_the_war.html
Une version complète de The Children's Story of the War (les 9 premiers volumes) est disponible en téléchargement auprès de la bibliothèque de l'Université de Toronto.
Foiled between the Scarpe and the Oise, the enemy struck his second great blow between the La Bassee Canal and Ypres. As you read the story which I am about to tell, you will find well-known names of towns and villages cropping up again. You will hear of places which figured in the first and second years of the war, but had long since passed into what we believed to be our permanent possession. You will also hear of other places which have never been for long out of our narrative. It is a story of the direst peril a peril far greater than that which we had to face south of the Somme.
Between Arras and the Oise we had room to bend for a considerable distance without gravely endangering the unity of our line, but it was quite otherwise when the blow fell to the north of the La Bassee Canal. Look at the map, and notice that behind our front from Givenchy to Ypres we had only a narrow strip of country. Ypres is less than thirty miles from Dunkirk, and only about fifty miles from Calais. Further, this narrow strip of country was of the highest importance to us, because it contained the railways which enabled us to maintain communication with the coast, and therefore with England. In the small towns between our front and the sea we had established hospitals, rest camps, training schools, repair stations, stores, and offices. You can easily understand that an enemy advance of seven miles north of La Bassee Canal would be far more serious to us than an advance of double that distance south of Amiens.
Now, what was the object of this new offensive ? The enemy hoped to capture Bethune on the first day, and soon afterwards the important railway junction of Hazebrouck. He meant to advance so rapidly that before our reserves could come up he would have overrun the country right up to the sea. Had he done this our plight would have been terrible indeed. Pressed back to the sea, we should have had no room to build up our line anew, as we had done further south, and the enemy might have achieved a second Sedan. Wholesale slaughter or wholesale surrender would probably have been our lot.
Suppose, however, the enemy should fail to overrun the coast strip, and yet should capture Hazebrouck and Bethune : what would happen then ? We should have to swing our line westward from Arras as a pivot, and take up the position shown by the dotted line on the map. You will observe that the northern part of our line would then stand along the little river Aa. This river flows through a marshy valley, which would afford us an even better line of defence than the Yser. Were we forced to retire to the Aa, we should have to give up Ypres and all the country between the ruins of the old city and the river. This would mean that the Belgians would have to withdraw, and the last few remaining miles of their country would be lost to them. Dunkirk would have to be abandoned, and the enemy would secure a submarine base close to the Straits of Dover. From Dunkirk he could assail Calais with his big guns, and make it impossible as a cross-Channel port. We should only have in our rear a very narrow margin of country in which to manoeuvre. Around Arras a salient would be created which might be deduced before we were firmly established on our new line. To make a long story short, our retirement to the Aa would mean disaster, and would probably be the beginning of the end.
Before I describe the offensive which began on the morning of 9th April, let us follow the Allied line as it stood before the guns began to thunder on that day. From the La Bassee Canal it struck north in front of Givenchy and Festubert names of great battle renown across the dead, marshy flats of the Lys valley. It crossed the Lys to the east of Armentieres, and continued north in front of Plug Street Wood and the Messines Ridge to Hollebeke, from which place it ran along the high ground to Passchendaele. Thence it bent westward along the western edge of Houthulst Forest to Merckem and so on, by way of the Yser, to the Channel.
The left wing of our First Army held the ground on both sides of L the La Bassee Canal. Between Neuve Chapelle thevillage so dearly won in March 1915 and Laventie, our ancient allies, the Portuguese, manned the trenches. Beyond them, as far north as Merckem, the line was entrusted to Plumer's Second Army. The Belgians, as of old, faced the enemy from Merckem to the sea.
There is good reason to believe that the attack which was now about to begin had been planned as part of the great offensive launched on 21st March. On the day when the Germans, according to their time-table, were to be in Amiens, the blow north of the La Bassee Canal was to be struck. With Amiens in their hands, they would have cut us off from the French ; and with the line of the Lys in their possession, they would be able to turn their big guns on the flanks of our troops lying between the Somme and the northern river. Happily, however, the enemy failed to secure Amiens, and the northern attack which I am about to describe became a separate venture. It was entrusted to the Fourth and Sixth German Armies the former, which was to strike north of the Lys, being commanded by General Sixt von Armin ; while the latter, which was deployed along the front between Armentieres and Givenchy, was led by General von Quast. You will remember that on 21st March the blow was struck near the junction of the British and French armies. On 9th April the Germans made their chief efforts against the Portuguese and the British troops who linked up with them on their right and on their left. You already know that military men usually consider that the weakest part of an Allied line is where the flanks of the different armies come into touch with each other.
In the early morning of 9th April a thick mist hung over the whole of the Lys valley. So dense was it that none of our aeroplanes could ascend to spy out the movements of the enemy. Prisoners afterwards said that their weather prophets had foretold long in advance a misty morning, and that the offensive was timed to take place when Nature would be likely to conceal their onset. About four in the morning a terrific bombardment was directed against the 17,000 yards of front between La Bassee Canal and Armentieres, the full weight of it falling upon the Portuguese lines, which, you will remember, lay across the marshy flats at the foot of the Aubers Ridge, in front of Lille. Over sixty thousand shells were hurled upon our defences, and upon towns and villages far in the rear. Bethune, Armentieres, and Estaires, on the Lys, were all heavily assailed, and the countryside was thickly strewn with gas shells, which created a poisonous zone, in which men and animals could not live without respirators.
From 4 to 5 a.m. the Portuguese lines were pounded until they were smashed to atoms, and at the latter hour six divisions were launched against the sorely-tried defenders. It is said that General Hofer led the attack in person, marching in front of his men and brandishing a walking-stick with his one arm. The Portuguese fought very gallantly, but they could not stand against the horde of Germans that swooped down upon them in the mist. At several points the enemy had not only cut the wire, but had crept round the advanced positions before they were seen. The Portuguese, under the tremendous weight of the attack, were obliged to fall back to their second position, where they were furiously attacked between six and seven o'clock. Again, they made a stubborn stand against the fiercest machine-gun fire and streams of blazing oil from flamethrowers. Their artillerymen served the guns up to the last possible moment, then destroyed the breech blocks and attempted to escape. Few of them regained their comrades ; the Portuguese losses were heavy indeed.
Before I describe the consequences of this break-through, let me remind you of the character of the country across which the Germans were now advancing. From Lille to Armentieres stretches the mining region of Pas de Calais. The country is as flat as the palm of your hand ; everywhere it is seamed with ditches and criss-crossed by canals. The roads are lined with houses ; factory chimneys and the headgear of collieries rise everywhere ; and the whole district resembles the industrial parts of Lancashire or the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Lys, black and foul, flows through this ill-favoured land. Between the Aubers Ridge and this stream there is no natural obstacle to an enemy's advance, and the Lys itself is not difficult to cross.
When, therefore, the Portuguese line was broken there was nothing but the naked valour of our men to delay the enemy until the Lys was reached. British troops were hurried up to form a line behind the discomfited Portuguese, and a cyclist company of 350 men played a heroic part in checking the enemy while a defensive line was formed in the rear. Elsewhere parties of our men made a most gallant stand, and in many places fought to the death ; but do what they might, they could not hold back the enemy waves that flowed around and over them. By evening the Lys had been reached between Estaires* and Bac St. Maur, and a crossing had been made in several places. Before night fell almost the whole of the marshy country between our broken line and the river was in the hands of the enemy.
Northumberland Fusiliers, East Yorks, and Durham Light Infantry had been sent up to defend Estaires. The place was smothered with shell-fire, and the enemy, rushing across a swing-bridge, gained a footing in the western part of the town. Our men charged down the streets, and created a No Man's Land for fifty yards beyond the bridgehead, which they covered with their machine guns. When, however, the enemy crossed the river higher up towards Armentieres, they had to abandon the place.
A story is told of some Durhams who were holding a position on the Lys Canal in front of Estaires and were cut off. In the dusk a German officer with some men stood up on the canal bank and shouted to them, " Are you English ? ' ' We are," replied a young sentry of the Durhams. " ... ... ...
OO O_O O O
Panzermensch
Panzerkampf sabaton...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxQ6E1v2Rq4
And One - Strafbomber...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1zbPwP9Orc
And One - Panzermensch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6ABczCznY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_de_Oliveira_Gomes_da_Costa
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_de_Oliveira_Gomes_da_Costa
WWI
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeira_Guerra_Mundial
BATTLE OF LA LYS
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalha_de_La_Lys
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Lys_(1918)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataille_de_la_Lys_(1918)
http://www.webmatters.net/belgium/ww1_lys_3.htm
RUA EIDÓNIO PAIS - LISBOA
PAVILHÃO DOS DESPORTOS - PAVILHÃO CARLOS LOPES
PARQUE EDUARDO SETIMO
HEAVY RAIN, THUNDERING AND LIGHTNING
55.000 GERMAN TROOPS WITH PANZERS, HEAVY WEAPONRY AND ARTILLERY...
http://www.bataille-de-la-lys.com/fr/attaque_allemande/prise_d_armentieres.html
http://www.bataille-de-la-lys.com/fr/documents/children_story_of_the_war.html
The Children's Story of the War
Lorem IpsumUne version complète de The Children's Story of the War (les 9 premiers volumes) est disponible en téléchargement auprès de la bibliothèque de l'Université de Toronto.
Extrait
The Battle of The Lys River
In former chapters I have told you the story of the great German offensive which began on March 21, 1918, and by 5th April, little more than a fortnight later, had come to a standstill. You will remember that the Germans struck their first mighty blow on a fifty-mile front between the Scarpe and the Oise, with the object of separating the British and French armies, and of opening the road to Paris. They failed to thrust in a wedge along the Oise, but succeeded in making a breach in the line of our Fifth Army in front of St Quentin. Then followed a rapid and very costly retirement ; but, as in the case of the break-through in North Italy, the enemy did not succeed in his main object. During the retirement a wall of reserves was built up against him, and though he came dangerously near to the main railway from Amiens to Paris his efforts proved vain. Thanks to some of the most dogged fighting known to history, the Allies were able to retain their hold on the railway, and to bar the way to the French capital.Foiled between the Scarpe and the Oise, the enemy struck his second great blow between the La Bassee Canal and Ypres. As you read the story which I am about to tell, you will find well-known names of towns and villages cropping up again. You will hear of places which figured in the first and second years of the war, but had long since passed into what we believed to be our permanent possession. You will also hear of other places which have never been for long out of our narrative. It is a story of the direst peril a peril far greater than that which we had to face south of the Somme.
Between Arras and the Oise we had room to bend for a considerable distance without gravely endangering the unity of our line, but it was quite otherwise when the blow fell to the north of the La Bassee Canal. Look at the map, and notice that behind our front from Givenchy to Ypres we had only a narrow strip of country. Ypres is less than thirty miles from Dunkirk, and only about fifty miles from Calais. Further, this narrow strip of country was of the highest importance to us, because it contained the railways which enabled us to maintain communication with the coast, and therefore with England. In the small towns between our front and the sea we had established hospitals, rest camps, training schools, repair stations, stores, and offices. You can easily understand that an enemy advance of seven miles north of La Bassee Canal would be far more serious to us than an advance of double that distance south of Amiens.
Now, what was the object of this new offensive ? The enemy hoped to capture Bethune on the first day, and soon afterwards the important railway junction of Hazebrouck. He meant to advance so rapidly that before our reserves could come up he would have overrun the country right up to the sea. Had he done this our plight would have been terrible indeed. Pressed back to the sea, we should have had no room to build up our line anew, as we had done further south, and the enemy might have achieved a second Sedan. Wholesale slaughter or wholesale surrender would probably have been our lot.
Suppose, however, the enemy should fail to overrun the coast strip, and yet should capture Hazebrouck and Bethune : what would happen then ? We should have to swing our line westward from Arras as a pivot, and take up the position shown by the dotted line on the map. You will observe that the northern part of our line would then stand along the little river Aa. This river flows through a marshy valley, which would afford us an even better line of defence than the Yser. Were we forced to retire to the Aa, we should have to give up Ypres and all the country between the ruins of the old city and the river. This would mean that the Belgians would have to withdraw, and the last few remaining miles of their country would be lost to them. Dunkirk would have to be abandoned, and the enemy would secure a submarine base close to the Straits of Dover. From Dunkirk he could assail Calais with his big guns, and make it impossible as a cross-Channel port. We should only have in our rear a very narrow margin of country in which to manoeuvre. Around Arras a salient would be created which might be deduced before we were firmly established on our new line. To make a long story short, our retirement to the Aa would mean disaster, and would probably be the beginning of the end.
Before I describe the offensive which began on the morning of 9th April, let us follow the Allied line as it stood before the guns began to thunder on that day. From the La Bassee Canal it struck north in front of Givenchy and Festubert names of great battle renown across the dead, marshy flats of the Lys valley. It crossed the Lys to the east of Armentieres, and continued north in front of Plug Street Wood and the Messines Ridge to Hollebeke, from which place it ran along the high ground to Passchendaele. Thence it bent westward along the western edge of Houthulst Forest to Merckem and so on, by way of the Yser, to the Channel.
The left wing of our First Army held the ground on both sides of L the La Bassee Canal. Between Neuve Chapelle thevillage so dearly won in March 1915 and Laventie, our ancient allies, the Portuguese, manned the trenches. Beyond them, as far north as Merckem, the line was entrusted to Plumer's Second Army. The Belgians, as of old, faced the enemy from Merckem to the sea.
There is good reason to believe that the attack which was now about to begin had been planned as part of the great offensive launched on 21st March. On the day when the Germans, according to their time-table, were to be in Amiens, the blow north of the La Bassee Canal was to be struck. With Amiens in their hands, they would have cut us off from the French ; and with the line of the Lys in their possession, they would be able to turn their big guns on the flanks of our troops lying between the Somme and the northern river. Happily, however, the enemy failed to secure Amiens, and the northern attack which I am about to describe became a separate venture. It was entrusted to the Fourth and Sixth German Armies the former, which was to strike north of the Lys, being commanded by General Sixt von Armin ; while the latter, which was deployed along the front between Armentieres and Givenchy, was led by General von Quast. You will remember that on 21st March the blow was struck near the junction of the British and French armies. On 9th April the Germans made their chief efforts against the Portuguese and the British troops who linked up with them on their right and on their left. You already know that military men usually consider that the weakest part of an Allied line is where the flanks of the different armies come into touch with each other.
In the early morning of 9th April a thick mist hung over the whole of the Lys valley. So dense was it that none of our aeroplanes could ascend to spy out the movements of the enemy. Prisoners afterwards said that their weather prophets had foretold long in advance a misty morning, and that the offensive was timed to take place when Nature would be likely to conceal their onset. About four in the morning a terrific bombardment was directed against the 17,000 yards of front between La Bassee Canal and Armentieres, the full weight of it falling upon the Portuguese lines, which, you will remember, lay across the marshy flats at the foot of the Aubers Ridge, in front of Lille. Over sixty thousand shells were hurled upon our defences, and upon towns and villages far in the rear. Bethune, Armentieres, and Estaires, on the Lys, were all heavily assailed, and the countryside was thickly strewn with gas shells, which created a poisonous zone, in which men and animals could not live without respirators.
From 4 to 5 a.m. the Portuguese lines were pounded until they were smashed to atoms, and at the latter hour six divisions were launched against the sorely-tried defenders. It is said that General Hofer led the attack in person, marching in front of his men and brandishing a walking-stick with his one arm. The Portuguese fought very gallantly, but they could not stand against the horde of Germans that swooped down upon them in the mist. At several points the enemy had not only cut the wire, but had crept round the advanced positions before they were seen. The Portuguese, under the tremendous weight of the attack, were obliged to fall back to their second position, where they were furiously attacked between six and seven o'clock. Again, they made a stubborn stand against the fiercest machine-gun fire and streams of blazing oil from flamethrowers. Their artillerymen served the guns up to the last possible moment, then destroyed the breech blocks and attempted to escape. Few of them regained their comrades ; the Portuguese losses were heavy indeed.
Before I describe the consequences of this break-through, let me remind you of the character of the country across which the Germans were now advancing. From Lille to Armentieres stretches the mining region of Pas de Calais. The country is as flat as the palm of your hand ; everywhere it is seamed with ditches and criss-crossed by canals. The roads are lined with houses ; factory chimneys and the headgear of collieries rise everywhere ; and the whole district resembles the industrial parts of Lancashire or the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Lys, black and foul, flows through this ill-favoured land. Between the Aubers Ridge and this stream there is no natural obstacle to an enemy's advance, and the Lys itself is not difficult to cross.
When, therefore, the Portuguese line was broken there was nothing but the naked valour of our men to delay the enemy until the Lys was reached. British troops were hurried up to form a line behind the discomfited Portuguese, and a cyclist company of 350 men played a heroic part in checking the enemy while a defensive line was formed in the rear. Elsewhere parties of our men made a most gallant stand, and in many places fought to the death ; but do what they might, they could not hold back the enemy waves that flowed around and over them. By evening the Lys had been reached between Estaires* and Bac St. Maur, and a crossing had been made in several places. Before night fell almost the whole of the marshy country between our broken line and the river was in the hands of the enemy.
Northumberland Fusiliers, East Yorks, and Durham Light Infantry had been sent up to defend Estaires. The place was smothered with shell-fire, and the enemy, rushing across a swing-bridge, gained a footing in the western part of the town. Our men charged down the streets, and created a No Man's Land for fifty yards beyond the bridgehead, which they covered with their machine guns. When, however, the enemy crossed the river higher up towards Armentieres, they had to abandon the place.
A story is told of some Durhams who were holding a position on the Lys Canal in front of Estaires and were cut off. In the dusk a German officer with some men stood up on the canal bank and shouted to them, " Are you English ? ' ' We are," replied a young sentry of the Durhams. " ... ... ...
OO O_O O O
Panzermensch
Panzerkampf sabaton...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxQ6E1v2Rq4
And One - Strafbomber...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1zbPwP9Orc
And One - Panzermensch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz6ABczCznY
Sem comentários:
Enviar um comentário