
	Where results make sense

Topic: Armoured Division

Related Topics

armoured fighting vehicle

reactive armour

British 7th Armoured Division

Armoured personnel carrier

British 1st Armoured Division

armoured cruiser

composite armour

Tommy Armour

Polish 1st Armoured Division

Chobham armour

Royal Armoured Corps

5th Canadian Armoured Division

In the News (Mon 28 May 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	The T- 90 Deal and Armoured Divisions
		The underlying idea of having armoured divisions was to carry the battle deep into enemy’s territory by offensive penetration and in the process upset the enemy’s design of battle and also in the bargain capture chunks of enemy’s territory as leverage during post-hostilities bargaining.
		Armoured divisions are very costly formations to afford and to maintain in terms of the exorbitant costs of tanks, APCs and AFVs and a host of other specialised and logistic units in support.
		Armoured divisions cannot be used for day-time operations due to their vulnerability to air attacks, are slow to move for night operations despite night fighting aids and cannot be used on northern border where the most potent long range military threats lie.
	www.saag.org /papers3/paper201.htm (1546 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - 1st Polish Armoured Division
		The 1st (Polish) Armoured Division was raised under the command of Major-General Stanislaw Maczek in 1942 in Scotland after the fall of France.
		This formation, included the 10th (Polish) Armoured Brigade (1st (Polish) and 2nd (Polish) Armoured Regiments and 24th Lancers) and the 3rd (Polish) Infantry Brigade (1st (Highland), 8th and 9th Polish Battalions) as well as an armoured reconnaissance regiment, the 10th (Polish) Mounted Rifles.
		The Division landed in France at the end of July 1944 as a part of II Canadian Corps, its most memorable action being the closing of the 'Falaise Gap' 19-22 August 1944.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/units/11n1polisheng.html (192 words)

	HQ ARRC - 1st (US) ARMOURED DIVISION
		The distinctive insignia of the 1st Armoured Division is a combination of the triangular crest of the World War I Tank Corps and of the round shoulder patch of the 7th Cavalry Brigade.
		McGruder envisioned that the newly formed 1st Armoured Division would be as instrumental in land warfare as the “Constitution” was in naval conflicts.
		On Jan. 17, 1992, the 8th Infantry Division (Mechanised) was redesignated as the 1st Armoured Division and Old Ironsides made its new home in the wine region of Rhineland-Pfalz, with the division headquarters moving to Rose Barracks in historic Bad Kreuznach.
	www.arrc.nato.int /divisions/1usdiv.htm (879 words)

	ARMOURED ACORN - The Canadian Armour Website
		Armoured divisions were reorganized with 1 armoured brigade and 1 infantry brigade rather than the 2 armoured brigades hitherto used.
		Armour: There were far too many types of tanks and other armoured vehicles used by the Canadian Army during WW2 to document here, consequently I will leave that type of study to others, or myself at some later date.
		Initially, when armoured divisions had 2 armoured brigades and only 2 motor infantry and a machine gun regt in support, unit markings copied those of the infantry brigades, senior being a red square and junior a green one.
	www.armouredacorn.com /Products/CVM/Default.htm (3296 words)

	The 4th Armoured Brigade, Chapter III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On the 21st we rejoined 7th Armoured Division, leaving the Greys behind with the New Zealand Division, with whom they were to stay for the rest of the campaign in North Africa.
		While the rest of the division was celebrating the capture of Tripoli, we pushed further west to Jefren, communication with the Royals being made difficult by the fact that the roads up the escarpment at Garian and Jefren were both blown.
		On the 24th, when it was clear that the 50th Division's attack at the north end of the line had failed, 1st Armoured Division crossed the mountains to join the New Zealand Division south of El Hamma and 4th Indian Division took on the job of clearing the mountains.
	www.warlinks.com /armour/4th_armoured/chapter_3.html (3004 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Initially intended as part of an Indian armoured division, this former cavalry brigade was sent to the Western Desert in the spring of 1941, where it was overrun and destroyed by German tanks.
		The division trained extensively but with very few tanks — the four tank battalions assigned to 1st Indian Armoured Brigade had three M3 Stuart tanks each, though a number of the obsolete India Pattern light tanks were used for crew training.
		The division saw action in wars against Pakistan in 1948, 1965 and 1971, and is again known as 31st Armoured Division.
	www.avalanchepress.com /IndianArmor.php (836 words)

	The Way It Was - 4
		The GOC 1 Armoured Division, and the commanders of 4 and 5 Armoured Brigades were relieved of their commands while almost all the staff officers were transferred.
		I had pointed out, when I had had the ammunition of 6 Armoured Division inspected, as the DQ of the division, that our tank crews were not familiar with HEAT ammunition and would not accept it as armour piercing ammunition but familiarisation was overruled to surprise the Indians.
		The tactics of 6 Armoured Division left much to be desired, squadrons were employed to attack areas held by tanks and led to heavy tank losses.
	www.defencejournal.com /may98/thewayitwas4.htm (1960 words)

	THE WAY IT WAS - 1
		Cavalry was raised as the integral regiment of 7 Division in 1962, equipped with M 48A1 tanks and stationed at Peshawar.
		The 1 Armoured Division, at this time consisted of three armoured brigades, 3rd Armoured Brigade of two armoured regiments and an armoured infantry battalion, 4th and 5th Armoured Brigades of an armoured regiment and one armoured infantry battalion each.
		I went to the division headquarters about an hour before closing time, met Colonel Zia-ul-Haq, the colonel staff, showed him the letter and asked him to tell the GOC that I wanted to see him about the extensions that he was giving to personnel under my command.
	www.defencejournal.com /july98/thewayitwas1.htm (2619 words)

	HQ ARRC - 1st (UK) ARMOURED DIVISION
		The 1st (UK) Armoured Division is designated as part of the UK commitment to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC).
		The division comprises three Armoured Brigades (4th, 7th and 20th) each consisting of two armoured regiments with Challenger main battle tanks (MBT) and Scimitar reconnaissance vehicles and two armoured infantry battalions equipped with Warrior armoured infantry fighting vehicles, Scimitar and Milan anti-tank missiles.
		The 4th Armoured Brigade is in Osnabrück and Münster; the 7th Armoured Brigade, ‘The Desert Rats’ is in Bergen-Hohne and the 20th Armoured Brigade is in Paderborn.
	www.arrc.nato.int /divisions/1ukdiv.htm (592 words)

	The 8th Armoured Brigade, Chapter VI
		For seven days the Brigade supported 51st (Highland) Division, 43rd Division who had come up on the left of the former, and the 9th Canadian Brigade in heavy and continuous fighting within the bridgehead, fighting that was characterised by bold use by the Germans of SP guns and very heavy mortar concentrations.
		The 52nd (Lowland) Division were to attack with their left on the river while 43rd Division were to be on their right supported by 8th Armoured Brigade less 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who were to remain with 3rd Division and capture that part of Bremen which lay South of the river.
		On the 29th the 43rd Division set off in a northerly direction through miles of the most appalling bogland where no vehicle could move off the road and where all roads were punctuated with enormous craters.
	www.warlinks.com /armour/8th_armoured/chapter_6.html (1975 words)

	1st Armored Division, Division Chronicle
		The division alerted Combat Command C (CCC), which was then moving towards Sidi Bou Zid, for participation in the operation, but instead it was diverted to the Maizila Pass in the south.
		The division's celebration in the Italian capital was short-lived, as VI Corps directed General Harmon to lead his division north to capture the airfield at Viterbo.
		The division lost approximately 2500 men in the reorganization, as the 1st and 13th Armored Regiments and the 6th Armored Infantry converted to battalion structures.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/matrix/1AD/1AD-cc.htm (3556 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The 7th Armoured then withdrew to the Nile Delta to refit, and was not at the front when the German Afrika Korps bundled the British back out of Libya in the spring of 1941.
		The division refitted during the early months of 1942, but was in the front lines again by May for the Gazala battles, as shown at the tactical level in Desert Rats and at the operational level in our new Gazala 1942 game.
		Afterwards the 7th Armoured refitted and reorganized into three brigades, two tank and one of motorized infantry as British organization finally started to recognize the shortage of foot soldiers in their armored divisions as compared to similar German or Italian formations.
	www.avalanchepress.com /7thArmoured.php (758 words)

	[No title]
		Sensing an opportunity to envelop and destroy the Indian formations, the Pakistani 1st Armoured Division was sent to the area south of the main Indian incursion around Kasur with the aim of advancing along the rear of the Indian's left flank, trapping them against the BRB Canal.
		The crushing defeat of the Pakistani 1st Armoured Division and the he inability of the Indian Army to vault the BRB Canal stalemated the Lahore front.
		The Indian 1st Armoured Division's drive quickly divided, with the 43rd Lorried Infantry Brigade supported by a tank regiment attacking Gat, while the main blow of the 1st Armoured Brigade was hurled against Phillaura.
	www.pakdef.info /pakmilitary/army/tanks/patton.html (2705 words)

	Legion Magazine :Our Polish Comrades - Part 29
		Canadians have a particularly close relationship with the Polish Armoured Division that fought as part of the 1st Canadian Army throughout much of WW II.
		The division was organized along standard British lines with armoured and infantry brigades, each of three battalions, together with reconnaissance, artillery and anti-tank regiments, plus a motorized infantry battalion; 14,000 men and 240 tanks.
		This small force, one armoured regiment and an infantry battalion, had penetrated deep into the German rear areas where it was repeatedly attacked by Royal Air Force Spitfires and Typhoons whose pilots had been briefed to bomb and strafe all movement in an area known to be occupied by the enemy.
	www.legionmagazine.com /features/canadianmilitaryhistory/00-01.asp (2200 words)

	Polish 1st Armoured Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the early stages the division was stationed in Scotland and guarded approximately 200 kilometres of British coast.
		The division twice suffered serious bombings by Allied aircraft yet it achieved a brilliant victory against the Wehrmacht in the battles for Mont Ormel, 262 Hill and the town of Chambois.
		This series of offensive and defensive operations came to be known as the Battle of Falaise in which a large number of German Wehrmacht and SS divisions were trapped in a huge Chambois pocket and subsequently destroyed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1st_Polish_Armoured_Division (784 words)

	HQ 1 Division
		The 1st (UK) Armoured Division is now the only British division to be stationed in Germany, from a peak of 4 divisions during the height of the Cold War, though it is not the only element of the British Forces in Germany.
		The impact of this restructuring was that the British Army of the Rhine was reduced to a strength of 1 Armoured Division with supporting troops.
		That division is the 1st (UK) Armoured Division, which is now assigned as part of the UK's contribution to the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps.
	www.army.mod.uk /1div (485 words)

	The day the 1st Armoured Division - Robert Fisk: 24 March 2004
		The guys at the rear were walking backwards, two officers in the centre, all moving purposefully towards the hotel entrance.
		The 1st Armoured had even created a special logo for the "Iraqi Civil Defence Corps", the letters ICDC in Gothic letters with half an SS lightning flash in between.
		The same American unit also incorporates a death's head skull in its various symbols, though this is a reference to the destruction of an SS unit by the 1st Armoured Division in Normandy in 1944.
	www.robert-fisk.com /articles378.htm (993 words)

	Hotchkiss jeep NATO / OTAN markings
		Armoured Regiment or Company forming part of the Armoured Division.
		Compagnie Ecole (CE) of the SOA school (ECO) in the 2nd Division Militaire (DM) of the 5th Region.
		The Marine Corps serve mainly overseas and consist of regiments specialising in all aspects of warfare from armour to airborne infantry.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Jeep_Man/mark2.htm (1147 words)

	HyperWar: The War in France and Flanders 1939–1940 [Chapter XVIII]
		The 3rd Armoured Brigade was to come under command of General Chenoine, commanding the French 5th Light Cavalry Division, and had as its objective the high ground covering the northern sector of the Somme from Rouvroy to St Valery sur Somme.
		Beauman Division, not yet under French command, was disposed in the fifty-five mile stretch between Pont St Pierre (evel miles south-east of Rouen near the junction of the rivers Andelle and Seine) and the coast at Dieppe.
		Finally the Composite Regiment of the 1st Armoured Division was to be held in reserve near St Léger.[18] Thus the result of the operation would depend mainly on whether the French divisions could succeeded in their attempt to capture the Mont de Caubert spur and the ridge in the centre.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-NWE-Flanders/UK-NWE-Flanders-18.html (4396 words)

	Armed Forces - a3a1- British Army - Formations - 1 (UK) Armoured Division - British Forces Germany (BFG)
		The 1st Armoured Division was formed in 1940.
		Since the Second World War, the Division has been retitled three times and became the 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division in 1993, having successfully fought in the Gulf War of 1991.
		The Division has its headquarters at Herford in Germany and commands three Armoured Brigades situated throughout North West Germany and is the major component of British Forces Germany.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /army/listings/l0008.html (835 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - 4th Canadian Armoured Division
		An armoured division called for just two brigades (in the case of 4th Armoured Division these would be the 3rd and 4th Canadian Armoured Brigades) and so only six of the original nine infantry battalions became armoured regiments, the remaining three battalions being diverted to other formations.
		The conversion of the division from infantry to armour - accomplished in the unbelievable period of only five months - was carried out by Major-General F.F. Worthington, known to all as Worthy, the founder of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps.
		In 1943 a further reorganisation took place when an infantry brigade (the 10th) replaced one of the armoured brigades in each armoured division.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/armwar/units/11a4thdiveng.html (275 words)

	The Defence of Baghdad - Special Military Report. 04/03/03
		The 2nd Al Medina Armoured Division with the 2nd, 10th and 17th Armoured, and 14th Mechanized Brigades near Karbala and the 5th Baghdad Mechanized Division with the 4th, 5th and 6th Mechanized Brigades near Al Kut are both reinforcement units.
		The 26th Brigade is reportedly near the Airport and the Al Nida Armoured Division which was based in the Qal'at Saleh-Amarah area with the 41st, 42nd and 43rd Armoured Brigades.
		The Second Corps originally at Diwaniyah with the 3rd Armoured Division, the 15th Infantry Division and the 34th Infantry Division is not reported to have been heavily involved in combat nor yet militarily out of the picture.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article2545.htm (1017 words)

	1965 Indo-Pak War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At the start of the war, India had one armoured division and one independent armoured brigade, along with six armoured regiments supporting infantry divisions.
		India had its largest haul of Pakistani tanks when the offensive of Pakistan's 1 Armoured Division was blunted at the Battle of Assal Uttar on September 10th.
		Saga of Strategy and Courage: Pakistan's superiority in armour was dealt a crushing blow by the splendid strategy and superior tactics of the Indian officers and jawans in the Khem Karan sector.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /LAND-FORCES/Army/Patton2.html (1561 words)

	British 79th Armoured Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 79th Armoured Division was a specialist British Army armoured unit formed as part of the preparations for the Normandy invasion of 6 June 1944.
		The Division was further used during the battle for the Roer Triangle (Operation Blackcock) and the Rhine crossings, (Operation Plunder), to transport the assault troops and to re-supply.
		The 79th Armoured Division was disbanded on 20 August 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/79th_Armoured_Division (394 words)

	1st Armoured Division
		By moving to 4 large Armoured Divisions (from 3 small Divisions), Britain could not keep the BAOR at full strength, as there were other operational tasks such as Northern Ireland, training etc. to do.
		The solution was to keep the Divisions at 50-67% strength, to be reinforced to full strength in time of war.
		In 1982, this structure was abandoned for a 2.5 Armoured Division structure, with the majority of the forces in
	www.geocities.com /littlegreenmen.geo/1980.htm?200521 (248 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - david scott 79th armoured division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The 79th Armoured Division was raised as an ordinary armoured div in 1942.
		The Division was not used as a whole, but the vehicles in it were ‘lent out’ to ‘ordinary’ formations to help them eg cross a stream, clear a path through a minefield, or destroy pillboxes and strongpoints.
		The only menation of Enschede in the history of the 79th Armoured Div is on the 2nd April 1945 - it says that the 3rd Division took the town 'supported by A squadron 141 RAC' (The Buffs).
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/19/a4156319.shtml (331 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)