Operation Knight's Move
Subtitle: German Airborne Raid Against Tito, 25 May 1944
Publisher: Marine Corps University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Quantico, Va.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface and Acknowledgments iii; title: Introduction i; title: Knight's Move 2; title: Origins of the Raid 11; title: The Plan 14; title: The Airborne Raid 16; title: Partisan Picture 25; title: Execution, X-Day 27; title: 0700 — Airborne assault wave reaches the objective 31; title: 0930 — Drvar occupied, main attempt to capture Tito 39; title: 1000 — Battle group moves to the southwest 44; title: 1200 — ^The second wave arrives 46; title: 1800 — Battalion withdraws to cemetery 47; title: 2130 — Cemetery position occupied 49; title: Execution, X-Day plus 1 50; title: 0330 — Enemy attacks repulsed 51; title: 0600 — Direct air support resumes 51; title: 0700 to 1000 — Link-up with ground forces 52; title: Analysis 54; title: Appendix: 500/600th SS-Parachute Battalion Chronology 63; title: Notes 65; title: Additional Readings 71; title: About the Author 73