Research help needed (Velikjie Luki Jul/Aug 1941)

[HBB*Hunger]

Hello and thank you for lookin into this thread!

 

As I'm preparing to start developing a single player scripted campaign using the new Velikjie Luki summer map, I'm lookin into the War Diary of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht to get the frontline from 20.07 - 28.08 right. You can generally say, that fighting has taken place at this time on the Map. 

 

I ran into some problems identifying the russian villages, they are clearly named in the war diary, but I can not make them out. It's about the villages of

 

Stankowo

Koshino

Fedorkowo. 

 

The L.Armmeekorps of 16.Armee passed these villages on their march to the Outskirts of Velikjie Luki in Juli 1941. They have to be somewhere around the train station of Isocha and VL, but I just can not locate them. 

 

If anyone of you have some informations ot the actual names of these sovjet villages, please help me to get the frontline a little more accurate. 

 

ALSO, if you have information about the russian forces especially the russian air forces operating there, i would be very glad to get this information. 

 

Thank you so much for your help, 

 

 

 

Hunger

Edited September 21, 2020 by HBB*Hunger

[Thad]

Considering the towns on the game map, good luck. You will probably need it. ?

 

I desired to re-create actual battles encountered by Patton's third army units moving towards Bastogne. I even purchased two books for reference. Unfortunately, none the towns or villages presented for battlegrounds, in the historical text, were anywhere to be found on the Rheinland map. I had to cancel my Battle Of The Bulge mission asperations. This was very disappointing.

Edited September 21, 2020 by Thad

[Juri_JS]

Here two original Wehrmacht maps:

 

 

 

The maps come from this site:

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de

 

I have no information on VVS units, but if you want to know the Soviet aircraft types used in the area, check the victory claims of III./JG 53. You can find victory lists here:

http://aces.safarikovi.org/luftwaffe.wartime.aerial.victory.credits.html

 

 

 

[HBB*Hunger]

Thank you very much! For some reason, I cant open these images, can you send me image links via pm maybe? Where did you find these maps on lexikon der wehrmacht, I've checked like every single map for each involved unit

Edited September 21, 2020 by HBB*Hunger

[Juri_JS]

18 minutes ago, HBB*Hunger said:

Thank you very much! For some reason, I cant open these images, can you send me image links via pm maybe? Where did you find these maps on lexikon der wehrmacht, I've checked like every single map for each involved unit

The maps can be found on the page of the 251. Infanteriedivision:

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Infanteriedivisionen/251ID.htm

[HBB*Hunger]

I seriously looked over these maps like one hundret times! Thank you so much Juri!