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21st Panzer Division 1941-1945

Author : Gustavo Uruena A
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781537707020
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book 21st Panzer Division 1941-1945 written by Gustavo Uruena A and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 15th Light Division The division that was later to become 21st Panzer Division had a very modest birth indeed. As originally conceived the special blocking force was seen as having an anti-tank and defence function. It was to be made up mainly from elements drawn from 3rd Panzer Division, which had been the formation originally earmarked for North Africa back in the summer of 1940. There was no intention at this stage of sending a full-strength panzer division. The first unit designated to to move was 39th Panzerjager (anti-tank) Battalion from 3rd Panzer Division. This was a motorized unit with halftracks and trucks towing anti-tank guns, three companies each with nine PAK 36 37mm guns and two PAK 50mm guns. However, events already dictated that an armour, reconnaissance and infantry presence would be needed. 5th Panzer Regiment of 3rd Panzer Division was chosen as the armour element, having at the time an under-strength establishment of 20 PzKpfw IVs, 75 PzKpfw IIIs, 45 PzKpfw IIs and 25 Pzkpfw 1 Ausf B tanks (including command and observation vehicles). Also from 3rd Panzer Division came 3rd Reconnaissance (Aufklarung) Battalion with a light and heavy armoured car company, a motorcycle company and heavy weapons support platoons. Even this was under strength, for one of the light armoured car platoons had VW Kubelwagens substituted. The infantry element was 200th Rifle (Schutzen) Regiment from 3rd Panzer Division, and artillery support came from one battalion only of 75th Artillery Regiment, also from 3rd Panzer. Divisional staff was drawn from the staff of 3rd Panzer Brigade within 3rd Panzer Division, the chief staff officer (Ia) being Major Mauser and the intelligence officer (Ic) being Hauptmann von Kluge. To these ex-3rd Panzer Division units were added army troops from various depots and formations comprising 606th Flak Battalion (with 20mm guns), 605th Panzerjager Battalion with three companies each of nine 4.7cm PAK(t)(Sf) auf PzKpfw I Ausf B-an ex-Czech 47mm anti-tank gun on a PzKpfw I Ausf B chassis - plus the 2nd and 8th Machine Gun Battalions."

21st Panzer Division

Author : Chris Ellis
Publisher : Ian Allan Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 21st Panzer Division written by Chris Ellis and published by Ian Allan Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Spearhead series is designed to look at the cutting edge of war, dealing with units capable of operating completely independently in the forefront of battle. Each volume in the series examines a historic unit's origins, history, organization, order of battle, battle history, insignia and markings. The 21st Panzer Division gained greatest fame in North Africa, but also served in Normandy and on the Russian Front. Each Spearhead title includes an evaluation of the units combat effectiveness as seen by the unit, its opponents and subsequent researchers, and a research section including a bibliography and a listing of museums, websites, re-enactment groups and memorials.

21 Panzer Division

Author : Jean-Claude Perrigault
Publisher : Heimdal
ISBN 13 : 9782840481577
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (815 download)

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Book Synopsis 21 Panzer Division by : Jean-Claude Perrigault

Download or read book 21 Panzer Division written by Jean-Claude Perrigault and published by Heimdal. This book was released on 2002 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1941, the German High Command decided to dispatch an expeditionary force to north Africa in support of the Italian forces which were in a difficult situation against the British. This contingent included elements that a few months later were to form the 5th Light Division, and in 1942, the 21st Panzer-Division. As the keystone of the Deutsches Afrika Korps, this division was involved in the hardest battles in that theater of operations until it was finally driven out of the continent of Africa along with the rest of the Axis forces in May 1943. A new division was then formed in France from the surviving elements. Poorly equipped, partly with old models of French and German tanks, the division showed great initiative in turning these salvaged vehicles into formidable fighting weapons. On 6 June 1944, 21st Panzer-Division was the first German armored formation to be launched in a counter-attack against the Allied landings in Normandy. After getting as far as the coast, the division was forced back. However its action on D-Day held up British troops' attempts to capture the city of Caen for a whole month. It was almost wiped out in the British offensive west of Caen on 18 July 1944, but fought on in the hedgerows before retiring eastwards across France. Following the failed German counter-attack in Alsace in 1945, the division was transferred to the eastern front where it was annihilated in the Halbe pocket shortly before the end of the war.

21st Panzer Division (6 September - 1 November 1944)

Author : Josep Rauch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book 21st Panzer Division (6 September - 1 November 1944) written by Josep Rauch and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

21st Panzer Division in Combat Against American Troops in France and Germany

Author : Edgar Feuchtinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book 21st Panzer Division in Combat Against American Troops in France and Germany written by Edgar Feuchtinger and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Armored Bears Volume One

Author : Veterans of the 3rd Panzer Division
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811711706
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Armored Bears Volume One written by Veterans of the 3rd Panzer Division and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First major treatment of the 3rd Panzer Division in English Covers the division's formation and its battles in Poland in 1939, France in 1940, and the Eastern Front in 1941 and 1942 The division had nearly 50 Knight's Cross winners by the end of the warContains numerous photos of soldiers and their tanks Based on the daily logs of the division and recollections of its commanders and soldiers

Panzer Divisions 1944–45

Author : Pier Paolo Battistelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472800435
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Book Synopsis Panzer Divisions 1944–45 by : Pier Paolo Battistelli

Download or read book Panzer Divisions 1944–45 written by Pier Paolo Battistelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a detailed examination on the late-war changes to the German Army Panzer forces and the formation of new units, from the collapse on the Eastern Front, through operations on the Western Front in Normandy and the Ardennes, to the final battle for Berlin in 1945. The major organizational changes that took place in this intensive period are examined, together with the adaptation of German armoured doctrine, tactics, and the command. Details of unit histories and operations, illustrated in colour maps, are also provided in this packed treatment.

Armoured Warfare in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945

Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783469005
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Book Synopsis Armoured Warfare in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945 by : Anthony Tucker-Jones

Download or read book Armoured Warfare in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945 written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Joness series of photographic histories of armored warfare records in graphic detail the role played by tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery during the decisive campaign in northwest Europe in 1944-5. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he shows how American, British, Canadian, and Polish armored divisions spearheaded the assault on the Third Reich, and how the Wehrmacht mounted a desperate armored defense. Tanks were required to operate in the dust of Normandy, the mud and waters of the Scheldt and Rhine rivers and the snows of the Ardennes and the forests of Germany. A succession of crucial armored engagements was fought during the D-Day landings, Operation Goodwood and the struggle for the Bourgubus ridge, the Falaise pocket, the Seine crossing, Arnhem, the German attack in the Ardennes, the Rhine crossing, in the Reichswald and during the rearguard actions and the last-ditch tank battles fought by the panzers in the Ruhr before the German surrender. Anthony Tucker-Joness photographic survey of the ultimate tank battles of the Second World War illustrates the range of armored fighting vehicles that were developed during the conflict, and it features the specialized vehicles deployed in Europe for the first time such as the Buffalo, DUKW, Weasel and Terrapin.

Inside the Afrika Korps

Author : Rainer Kriebel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Afrika Korps written by Rainer Kriebel and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the battles of the Afrika Korps as seen through the eyes of a trained general staff officer, and provides key insight into a formidable fighting force at the height of its power. Kriebel's account highlights the German response to the Crusader offensive and analyzes the unparalleled genius and fatal flaws of Erwin Rommel's generalship. Exposes the secrets of Rommel's exemplary fighting force's success as well as the dangers inherent in victory.

12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy

Author : Tim Saunders
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526757370
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book 12th Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division in Normandy written by Tim Saunders and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the armored division comprised of German teenagers in the Normandy campaign, drawing on new materials from former Eastern Bloc archives. Raised in 1943 with seventeen-year-olds from the Hitler Youth movement, and following the twin disasters of Stalingrad and ‘Tunisgrad,’ the Hitlerjugend Panzer Division emerged as the most effective German division fighting in the West. The core of the division was a cadre of officers and NCOs provided by Hitler’s bodyguard division, the elite Leibstandarte, with the aim of producing a division of ‘equal value’ to fight alongside them in I SS Panzer Corps. During the fighting in Normandy, the Hitlerjugend proved to be implacable foes to both the British and the Canadians, repeatedly blunting Montgomery’s offensives, fighting with skill and a degree of determination well beyond the norm. This they did from D+1 through to the final battle to escape from the Falaise Pocket, despite huge disadvantages, namely constant Allied air attack, highly destructive naval gunfire, and a chronic lack of combat supplies and replacements of men and equipment. Written with the advantage of new materials from archives in the former Eastern Bloc, this book is no whitewash of a Waffen SS division and it does not shy away from confronting unpalatable facts or controversies. Includes photographs

German Units in Normandy

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
ISBN 13 : 9781230531076
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book German Units in Normandy written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend, 21st Panzer Division, 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Gotz von Berlichingen, 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 9th Panzer Division, 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen, 503rd heavy tank battalion, II SS Panzer Corps, 352nd Infantry Division, 709th Static Infantry Division, 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg, SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 101, 716th Static Infantry Division, 5th Panzer Army, SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 102, 243rd Static Infantry Division, 91st Infantry Division, 94th Infantry Division, 916th Grenadier Regiment. Excerpt: The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) was Adolf Hitler's personal Bodyguard. Initially the size of a regiment, the LSSAH eventually grew into a divisional-sized unit. ("Leibstandarte" derived partly from "Leibgarde" or "Life Guard" -- a somewhat archaic German expression for the personal bodyguard of a military leader and "Standarte" -- the SS/SA term for a regiment-sized unit). The LSSAH independently participated in combat during the Invasion of Poland. The LSSAH was amalgamated into the Waffen-SS together with the SS-VT and the combat units of the SS-TV prior to Operation Barbarossa in 1941. By the end of World War II it had been increased in size from a regiment to a Panzer division. The elite division was a component of the Waffen-SS which was found guilty of war crimes in the Nuremberg Trials. Members of the LSSAH participated in numerous atrocities and it is estimated that they murdered at least 5,000 prisoners of war in the period 1940-1945, mostly on the Eastern Front. In the earliest days of the NSDAP, leaders realized that bodyguard units composed of trustworthy and loyal men would be a wise development. Ernst Rohm formed a guard formation from the 19.Granatwerfer-Kompanie, and from this...

Flank Defense In Far-Reaching Operations [Illustrated Edition]

Author : Generaloberst Heinz Guderian
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251477
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book Flank Defense In Far-Reaching Operations [Illustrated Edition] written by Generaloberst Heinz Guderian and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the World War Two On The Eastern Front (1941-1945) Illustration Pack – 198 photos/illustrations and 46 maps. Often written during imprisonment in Allied War camps by former German officers, with their memories of the World War fresh in their minds, The Foreign Military Studies series offers rare glimpses into the Third Reich. In this study the father of the Panzerarmeen, Generaloberst Heinz Guderian discusses how he and his tanks attained such success in Russia. Focussing on the Second Panzer Army’s, which he commanded during 1941, General Guderian discusses the actions for the offensive over the Bug, the crossing of the Dnepr, the attack at Smolensk, the thrust at Kiev, the breakthrough at Orel-Bryansk and the operations around Tula.

Army Group North

Author : Werner Haupt
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Army Group North written by Werner Haupt and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After long years of studying sources and literature, Werner Haupt presents the military history of one of the larger theaters of World War II. The completion of the history of "Army Group North" is the result of the author's utilization of all German and Russian literature, as well as those combat diaries and documents of the committed troop units that are available in German archives. In addition, the author was assisted in clearing up several questions by the advice of former members of the army group - from commanders to drivers. This series by Werner Haupt will continue with a volume each on Army Group Center and Army Group South. The author served in the German Army as a soldier and officer in the northern sector of the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He is also the author of Assault on Moscow - 1941 (available from Schiffer Publishing Ltd.).

Steel Fist

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841931531
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Steel Fist written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grenadiers

Author : Kurt Meyer
Publisher : J.J. Fedorowicz Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Grenadiers written by Kurt Meyer and published by J.J. Fedorowicz Pub.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Panzer Commander

Author : Hans von Luck
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Panzer Commander written by Hans von Luck and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1989 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the millions of words that have been written on World War II, the list of truly noteworthy memoirs by ordinary fighting men is surprisingly brief. . . . For sheer breadth of recorded experience, no soldier's memoir can match Hans von Luck's Panzer Commander.... There seems little of the war in Europe and Africa that Luck did not take part in, and few of the German military leaders whom he did not know or meet. A professional soldier who joined the German army in 1929 at eighteen, he was taught battle tactics by Erwin Rommel and later became one of Rommel's favorite line officers. Military History Quarterly T]his is one of the more valuable World War II memoirs to appear in some time. It is the story of a German tank officer who saw action from the Polish blitzkrieg to the fall of Belin and then spent five years as a Russian prisoner. His is the portrait of the best sort of soldier in one of the best armies of modern times, and it also provides insights into North African campaign commander Erwin Rommel's leadership, thoughts on why Germans made an idol of Hitler, and much else. An exceptional volume, recommended for most World War II or military collections. Booklist Panzer Commander is the story of a remarkable soldier who was awarded his country's highest military decorations, including the German Gold Cross and the Knight's Cross. Commander of Germany's 21st Panzer Division during World War II and a protege of Field Marshall Rommel, Colonel Hans von Luck served in an army that is widely regarded as one of the most powerful in history. His memoirs provide a detailed firsthand account of German tactics in combat. Von Luck was present at several historical junctures of the war--the invasion of Poland in 1939, the battle for France with Rommel in 1940, the march on Moscow in 1941, and the fighting at Kasserine Pass in North Africa with Rommel in 1942. After being wounded in North Africa, von Luck was eventually posted to Paris in 1943 to school junior officers in tactics. Returning to action, he participated in the struggle to repel the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, and battled French and American forces in 1944. Finally, he was part of the ill-fated defense of Berlin in 1945. Von Luck anticipated that the Axis powers were likely to be defeated after the failed invasion of Russia. By recounting his tale of the war with sensitivity and humanity, he gallantly validates the longstanding tradition of an officer and a gentleman.

Rommel's Year of Victory

Author : James Sidney Lucas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rommel's Year of Victory written by James Sidney Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German offensive in North Africa, coupling the prowess of Rommel, The Desert Fox, with the superb elan of the German Afrika Korps, is widely regarded as one of the most astonishing military achievements of World War II. Rommel had been sent to Libya in February 1941 to bail out the Italian Army, whose short-lived invasion of Egypt in the fall of 1940 had been repulsed by the British. His ability to adapt his troops to desert warfare is a textbook example of training and tactics in harsh conditions. German war artist Kurt Caesar traveled with the Afrika Korps and illustrated the campaign with evocative and detailed drawings. Rommel's Year of Victory combines these illustrations with a new, gripping narrative by James Lucas that captures the day-to-day life of the German soldier in the desert. James Lucas served as an infantryman in the Tunisian campaign in World War II. He is an acknowledged expert on the German military history of the period, as well as a widely published military author.