The Battle of Narva 1944 | Ep.2 - The retreat and the battle of the Luga River

Hello, welcome to The AceDestroyer and welcome to the second part of the Narva 1944 series. This part will be all about the retreat from the Oranienbaum front to the battles on the River Luga and finally the retreat towards the Narva River and the city of Narva itself. Find out more in the video! I hope you’ll enjoy this first episode! Don’t forget to like and subscribe and do leave a comment down below! Cheers!



INFORMATION
https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2015/09/01/the-battle-of-narva-1944-part-i/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranienbaum_Bridgehead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_for_Narva_Bridgehead
Landwehr, R. (1981). Narva 1944: The Waffen-SS and the Battle for Europe. Great Britain: Bibliophile Legion Books.
[Handle this book with great care! Filled with SS Bias, but it gives the reader a good overview of the dispositions of the units involved. It also gives a brief overview of the fighting, but as mentioned, filled with SS bias.

http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/KorpsSS/IIISSPzKorps-R.htm
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/9152/Seebach-Walter.htm
http://wehrmacht.rindeleht.ee/ktb/1/1.html



FOOTAGE
My homemade maps
All WW2 footage come from ‘Die Deutsche Wochenschau’ which has largely been banned on YouTube. The ones used in this video are: No. 692 (December 12, 1943), No. 705 (8 March 1944) and No. 711 (19 April 1944)
Pictures are from Wikipedia and TracesOfWar

MUSIC: All music is from the YouTube Audio Library (https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1)
Russian dance
Chasing time
Dark Forest