Nebelwerfer: Experience Reports & Veterans

Let us take a look at some experience reports from war-time reports and veterans about the usage of Nebelwerfers (German rocket artillery), their effects and various problems.

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Emde, Joachim: Die Nebelwerfer. Entwicklung und Einsatz der Werfertruppe im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Podzun-Pallas-Verlag: Dorheim, o.J. (1979?).

D1108: Der 15cm-Nebelwerfer 41, Gerätebeschreibung. 1942.

Wägemann, Thomas: Rudolf Nebel (1894-1978). Raketenforscher aus Weißenburg – Konstrukteur eines „Papierdraches“ oder Schöpfer der „V2“? In: Weißenburger Blätter. Januar 2020. S. 5-28.

Steiger, Rudolf: Panzertaktik im Spiegel deutscher Kriegstagebücher 1939 bis 1941. Rombach+Co GmbH: Freiburg, 1973.

Töppel, Roman: Kursk 1943. The Greatest Battle of the Second World War. Helion: Warwick, UK: 2018.

Wiener, Fritz: Die Nebelwerfer 1939-1945. In: Schirmer, Friedrich (Hrsg.); Wiener, Fritz (Hrsg.): Feldgrau. Heft 3. / 1. Juni 1959. Burgdorf/Han. 1959.

TM-E 30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces. War Department: March 1945.

Hahn, Fritz: Waffen und Geheimwaffen des deutschen Heeres 1933-1945. Dörfler Verlag: Eggolsheim, o.J.

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Catalog of Enemy Ordnance Material (German). Office Chief of Ordnance: 1945.

TM-E 30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces. War Department: March 1945.

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[vladimpaler]

Thanks for lifting the fog on Nebelwerfers.

[briansmaller]

My father was on the receiving end of nebelwefer attacks a lot in Italy during the war (he was New Zealand army). He was once in a slit trench and a nebelwerfer rocket landed almost on the lip of his hole. He got sucked out of his slit trench and flew into the air and crashed down into the snow (it was winter). He had false teeth (a hockey stick accident at fifteen) and lost his dentures - they flew out of his mouth. He was bruised but otherwise not hurt. Said it took the army dentists about three months to make him a new set of teeth.

[krimome]

A video comparing the role and effectiveness of the Nebelwerfer and the Katyusha would be interesting

Theirs a video in the "battlefield" series, the battle for stalingrad and it has a clip with the"trench plow"being used, it's the only one I've ever seen, and it's huge but obviously it's an oversized plow

[joearnold]

I hate puns
But, I could t help but chuckle at “plowsible”.

[wingshadw]

So this is How many Nebels could a nebelwerfer werf if a nebelwerfer could werf nebels.

Fascinating.

[kaineuhauser]

Das ist wieder so ein Thema wo ich nicht wusste das ich es wissen will. Aber als ich das Video gesehen habe war es mir sofort klar. Dieser Kommentar wurde vor dem Anschauen geschrieben da ich wie immer top Qualität erwarte

[CAP]

Excellent review, now I have a good idea what to expect the next time I employ a nebelwerfer.

[Dennis-vhtz]

Plowsible? I _furrow_ my brows at that.

[maciejniedzielski]

Polish resistance and civilians in Warsaw Uprising 1944 called German Nebelwerfer "krowa" 🐮 "a cow" due to loud and strident sounds when shot on the city.

[scottgiles]

Fess up! The only reason people care is they like saying "Nebelwerfer".

Now let's go Werfe some Nebels!

[Paveway-chan]

MHV, do you have any thoughts on why the *British weather launch system* depicted in this video never appeared again after WW2? I would think that a truck-towed and simplistic rocket launcher system like the Nebelwerfer would have been ideal for use by less heavily equipped infantry units even today, to supplement the use of tracked/wheeled mortar carriers without the need for something massive like a MARS or a BM-27. Perhaps systems like Nebelwerfer aren't quite as simple to operate as they appear?

[BamBamBigelow..]

I would be scared to be on the receiving end of a nebelwerfer/katyusha rocket couldn't imagine a modern MLRS bombardment

[visi]

Good One! Interesting and Educational ~ Cheers

[kiowhatta]

I would like to hear also about the mobile battery's of 'Panzerwerfer' either the 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz.4/1 or 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Schwerer Wehrmachtsschlepper - how they operated, organisation, crew reports - the usual thorough data.

I am also interested and intrigued by the Germans evolution, or lack of, higher volume rocket tubes than the standard six-tube and ten tube launchers ( yes I am aware of the 8 cm Raketen-Vielfachwerfer- 'Missile multiple launchers', and the Stuka zu Fuß - walking Stuka). These were not wholly adopted by the army, perhaps because they did not want to appear to be copying the Katyusha and/or Calliope and perhaps re configuring production lines.

[sebastianriemer]

So there are Nebelwerfer that are different from normal Nebelwerfer and not to confuse with the other Nebelwerfer by Mr. Nebel?

[Moredread]

I like this and more people should watch.

[xXxTripleHxXx]

Lets all pause for a moment and thank Konstanze

[HeroHoundoom]

So, what in your opinion would have been the main use of the Nebelwerfers? To disorientate enemy troops and/or to conceal the movement of the army during an offensive/retreat?