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  Achtung Panzer! - Panzer Divisions 1940-1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In February of 1942, 25th Panzer Division was formed at Eberswalde and in Norway and from October of 1943, it served exclusively on the Eastern Front.
In September of 1942, 26th Panzer Division was formed at Mons in Belgium and it served exclusively in Italy.
Panzer Division "Clausewitz" / "Schlesien" was formed in February of 1945 as "Kampgruppe Holstein" from units of 233rd Panzer Division.
www.achtungpanzer.com /pzdiv2.htm   (1351 words)

  
 26th Infantry Division History World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The attack was resumed by the 26th Division on the morning of December 26, with the 101st Infantry and the 104th Infantry prepared to cross the Sure River.
The 17th Airborne Division was directed to effect the relief of the 26th Infantry Division and elements of that division began to arrive on January 26, 1945.
The 26th Division continued its rapid advance, and, with the 4th and 11th Armored Divisions and the 90th Infantry Division, broke out of the Main River bridgeheads, reaching Fulda on the 1st of April where the 101st Infantry engaged in house-to-house fighting to clear the city.
ww2-museum.org /26YD/26idhistory.html   (13767 words)

  
 DigeratiCafe: 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen :Online Reference Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The division fought several rear-guard actions during the retreat through France and Belgium, and in early September 1944, the exhausted unit was pulled out of the line for rest and refit near the Dutch city of Arnhem.
The division's armour was unloaded from the trains and workshop units worked frantically to replace the panzers' treads, which had been removed for transportation.
The division, along with the majority of the SS Panzer units available, was to take part in Operation Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening), the offensive near Lake Balaton aimed at securing the Hungarian oilfields and relieving the forces trapped in Budapest by the Soviets.
www.digeraticafe.com /reference/9th_SS_Panzer_Division_Hohenstaufen   (1787 words)

  
 Achtung Panzer ! - Invasion of Poland (Fall Weiss)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
German armored units included 7 (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, part of 10th and Kempf) Panzer Divisions, 4 Light Divisions (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th) and 4 Motorized Infantry Divisions.
German Panzer force as of September 1st of 1939 had 1445 PzKpfw I, 1223 PzKpfw II light tanks and 98 PzKpfw III, 211 PzKpfw IV medium tanks.
German casualties (8082 to 10572 killed, 27,278 to 30322 wounded and 3404 to 5029 missing) were very low compare to Polish casualties (66300 killed, 133700 wounded and 420000 taken prisoner).
www.achtungpanzer.com /polcamp.htm   (2527 words)

  
 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - List of military divisions by number
This is a list of military divisions of all nationalities organised by ordinal number.
Divisions may be infantry, airborne, cavalry, mechanized or armoured.
German 1st Hermann Göring Parachute Panzer Division (earlier Hermann Göring Division, Hermann Göring Panzer Division)
fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/List_of_military_divisions_by_number   (156 words)

  
 German 23rd Infantry Division - Definition, explanation
The division was commanded by Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt and consisted of the 9th, 67th, and 68th infantry regiments.
In November 1942 a new 23rd Infantry Division was formed, with the new 9th and 67th regiments called Grenadier to distinguish them from the original 9th and 67th regiments now called Panzergrenadier in the 26th Panzer Division.
The new division served on the Eastern Front for the remainder of the war, ultimately surrendering in East Prussia.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/ge/german_23rd_infantry_division.php   (293 words)

  
 82nd Airborne Division History
The Division's assignment was to relieve the 26th Division in the Lagney Sector, northeast of Toul.
On the 20th, the Division was relieved at the front and moved to Marbache to prepare for the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, ending its participation in the Lorraine Campaign.
The Division advanced north to the Volturno River, cleared the area of the enemy, and became the first unit to set sail for England, via Ireland, to prepare for the invasion of Normandy.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/82abn-history.htm   (3406 words)

  
 Salerno: The German Counterattack(12-14 September)
At daybreak on 12 September, the 45th Division prepared to establish contact with the 179th Infantry in the corridor and to strengthen its line east of the Sele.
In the early morning of the 13th the 36th Division was ordered to withdraw the 2d and 3d Battalions, 141st Infantry, from their defensive mission in the hills by Ogliastro on the right flank and dispatch them by truck to the extreme left flank northwest of Bivio Cioffi.
The main German strength, consisting of elements of the 16th Panzer Division north of the Sele, the 29th Panzer Division near Contursi, and 30 tanks in Battipaglia, could be turned on 10 Corps front.
www.army.mil /CMH-PG/books/wwii/salerno/sal-germancntr.htm   (6393 words)

  
 The Second World War: Chronology of Second World War
The German Army invades Poland and annexes the free city of Danzig.
The German Army reach the city of Brest-Litovsk on the Polish border with the Soviet Union.
The German Army captures Kiev, the Ukrainian capital in the Soviet Union.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWchron.htm   (1755 words)

  
 13.Panzer-Division
The bulk of the division was stretched out in one long column many miles long behind the isolated combat teams of the Panzergrenadiere waiting to be reinforced so that the assault on the city could be pursued in strength.
Even though it had not been able to achieve its assigned strategic objective, the men of the division got some satisfaction from the fact that their organization was recognized as one of the toughest Panzer divisions in the East, a division that had in fact reached the most southeasterly point along the entire Eastern Front.
When the German counterattack, spearheaded by the 1.SS-Panzer.Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" and other SS-Panzer.Divisions, failed to lift the siege of Budapest in March, 1945, the division was finally crushed and it was every person for themselves to break out of the Kessel.
www.feldgrau.com /heer13p.html   (2266 words)

  
 101st Infantry Regiment Battle Honors - 26th Infantry (Yankee) Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Following the debarkation at Cherbourg, France, on the 7th of September 1944, and the relief of the 4th Armored Division in the vicinity of Arracourt, France, on the 7th of October the offensive operations for the Regiment began on the 8th of November 1944.
The movement of 26th Division was the initial effort made by the Third Army to drive a wedge into the south flank of the penetration made by the recent German counterattack to the north.
On the night of the 26th of March an enemy patrol entered the position of the 101st Field Artillery Battalion from the nearby woods and caused confusion in rear areas of the Regiment.
ww2-museum.org /26YD/101ireghist.html   (5891 words)

  
 1st SS Panzer Division LAH - A World War II Online Squad
In 1943, the LAH was again recalled to the East Front where it took part in the massive battles for the recapture of Kharkov and in the largest tank battle in History during the epic struggle for Kursk in the Kursk Salient.
Reequiped and renamed as a full Panzer Division the LAH was sent to rescue the crumbling situation on the Eastern Front.
In December, 1944, the LAH was attached to the I SS Panzer Korps for the Attack in the Ardennes region of France.
www.go2themax.com /1SSLAH/history.shtml   (2222 words)

  
 11. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Nordland"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This division was formed 8th February 1943 from Dutch, Norwegian and Danish volunteers as well as German units like "Nordland" regiment from 5.
September 1943 the division conducted anti-partisan warfare in Croatia.
The division participated in heavy fighting around the area of Gdansk, Szczecin and Stargard.
www.henrikc.dk /militaryvehicles/ww2/nordland.htm   (214 words)

  
 Panzer-Division Müncheberg
The Stab (HQ) of the Division was formed from parts of the Stab Pz.Brig.103.
The Division managed to fight the Soviet armor spearhead to a virtual stand-still on the hills west of the Oder River, and later fought in the Seelow Heights region.
Most of the crew of the Panzers fought on as infantry in the fierce battles for the city.
www.feldgrau.com /heermp.html   (450 words)

  
 34th Infantry Division • Chapter XVII • Slugging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During the morning of 7 July the Division received a temporary setback on its extreme right flank where the newly arrived troops of the 26th Panzer Grenadier Division counter-attacked elements of the 363rd Infantry and drove them from a hill.
Accordingly, the Division sent every available support to the attack of the 135th Infantry, who were slugging it out with SS troops in stubborn fighting among the hills southeast of the objective.
The artillery rejoined the Division a little later when it was seen that their fire power for the repulse of a possible enemy attack south of the river was no longer needed.
www.34infdiv.org /history/34div/1.17.html   (1117 words)

  
 Panzer Commander scenario's
December 1942, the German 6th army was trapped in a pocked in Stalingrad, now it was facing the Russian 57th and 60th, to free the 6th army group Don was formed and was doing an attck of the side of the Russian 2n guards army.
The German tank brigades advanced so fast that neither the Germans or the Russians where able to follow it, the result of this was that at some places the Russians where totally elliminated, but at other places like bends of rivers and other places of resistance the Russians wher totally overseen, and forgotten."
German scenario(Spanish Civil scenario) Version 1.1(UPDATED) Tank type Pzkfw IV Ausf B Time 26:00 Difficulty Moderate The Spanish civil war is dragging on for a long time, by spring the German army was about to help their Allies.
home.quicknet.nl /qn/prive/w.hakkenberg/Scenario.htm   (551 words)

  
 German Tanks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Panzer II's and III's of the African Korps, 15th Panzer Division drive towards Arcoma during the epic battles for the Gazala line.
German forces encircled in the fortress town of Konigsberg by 3rd Ukranian front prepare to break through the besieging Soviet lines to re-establish a supply line to the Baltic.
In an effort to restrain the Germans advance the British 1st Tank Brigade, 6th Durham Light Infantry and the French 3rd Light Armoured Division were quickly mustered under the command of Major General Franklyn.
www.military-art.com /new_page_3.htm   (2864 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Sergeant 'Smokey' Smith VC
In the early hours of October 22, the Seaforth's right flank came under attack from three Panther tanks of the German 26th Panzer Division.
Smith, armed with a PIAT anti-tank weapon, and some distance away, gathered up his team, crossed an open field and took up a position with a colleague in a ditch alongside the road on which the tanks were advancing.
A group of some 10 German soldiers leapt from the tank and attacked Smith's position with machinegun fire and grenades.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1547432,00.html   (758 words)

  
 3 December 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The German 26th Panzer Division succeeds in a fierce counterattack and the New Zealand Division falls back.
: Berlin: German defenders killed 228 Allied airmen last night, during a raid in which 36 Berliners died and 105 went "missing".
Because of the prevailing high winds it was a scattered raid; one pilot missed the target by 50 miles.
www.etherington.demon.co.uk /1943/december/3.htm   (219 words)

  
 Archer German   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Waffen SS Panzer/Panzer Grenadier division insignias (Sheet 1)10th SS Panzer Division, 18th SS Freiwillingen Panzer-Grenadeir Division, 38th SS Panzer-Grenadier Division, 28th SS Freiwillingen Panzer-Grenadeir Division, 11th SS Freiwilligen Panzer-Grenadier Division, 23rd Freiwilligen Panzer-Grenadier Division, 9th SS Panzer Division, 3rd SS Panzer Division, 12th SS Panzer Division, 2nd SS Panzer Division, 7th Mountain Division
German medium weight white solid color turret numbers
German medium weight red solid color turret numbers
firestorm1.topcities.com /lines/archer/german_int.htm   (1101 words)

  
 Archer Fine Transfers: US Instruments & German Divisional Insignia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sheet contains markings for the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and the 27th Panzer Division including all known variants.
Two color sheet contains markings for the 1st, 2nd, 11th, 21st, and the 130th Panzer Division including all known variants.
Three color sheet contains markings for the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 26th and 116th Panzer Division including all known variants.
www.totalmodel.com /newsserver/pages/news_261.shtml   (347 words)

  
 YANKEE DIVISION (26TH INFANTRY) WEB SITE.
The 26th Infantry Division was composed of three Infantry Regiments; the 104th, the 101st and the 328th.
The German infantry weapons were superior to ours until the end of the war and we would use them if we could (not always since the German weapons had their own noise characteristics and every GI knew the sound of German weapons-you could have your own firing at you)!
When the division (the 4th Armored Division and not the 26th Infantry Division) started for Luxembourg it was short 713 men and 19 officers in the tank and infantry battalions and the cavalry squadron.
www.rinfret.com /ww2.html   (12145 words)

  
 Frequently asked questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Simply Panzer Commander has a maximum number of scenario's in the list.
Help when I play the US Anzio career and the British 1st armoured division or the German 26th Panzer division, it just shows a white sky and a grey terrain.
That's because of a setting in Panzer Commander, go to the configuration, and remove the "v" at the palletized textures sections,
home.quicknet.nl /qn/prive/w.hakkenberg/FAQ.htm   (371 words)

  
 FileFront Forums - 130th Panzer Lehr Division - Recruitment Drive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The 130th Panzer Lehr Division is under new management and has gone under several operational overhauls.
Winning comes secondary to working as a team, which to us is not only where the fun is at, but in the end with great battlefield coordination, victory is the biproduct.
Yes, it is the 130th Panzer division clan!
forums.filefront.com /showthread.php?t=158795   (780 words)

  
 2nd SS Panzer Division, David Pentland
Ernst Barkmann, 2nd SS Panzer Division in his Panther Tank shown in military art print Barkmann's corner by David Pentland.
Ernst Barkmann's (Das Reich, 2nd SS Panzer Division) famous day long solo engagement against an American Armoured breakthrough towards St. Lo, Normandy, 26th July 1944.
Second in the series of German Tank prints.
www.cranstonfinearts.co.uk /dhm792.htm   (585 words)

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