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	5 Panzer Division
		In addition, the division’s participation in humanitarian aid missions following an earthquake in Morroco in 1960 and its involvement in disaster relief in the wake of flooding on the north German seashore produced high esteem for 5th Panzer soldiers.
		Between 1991 and 1994, the 5th Panzer’s 13th and 15th brigades were dismantled as a result of the German reunification and the Agreement of the Vienna Treaty on conventional weapons in Europe.
		In peacetime, the 5th Panzer’s primary task is to train active and reserve personnel, establish mission readiness by conducting unilateral and bilateral exercises, and execute national and territorial tasks.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/5panzer.htm (333 words)

	1-37 Armor - 1st Battalion 37th Armor Alumni Network
		The 1st Battalion 37th Armor (1st Armored Division) from Vilseck, Germany, commanded by LTC Edward L. Dyer, was alerted for deployment to the Persian Gulf on 8 November 1990.
		The German 5th Panzer Division, the last of the German strategic reserves, spearheaded the attack by Model's Army Group B that opened the "Battle of the Bulge".
		Encircled by Germans, troops of the US 101st Airborne Division watch C-47’s drop supplies to them.On the same day the US 101st Airborne Division was moved by truck to establish a strongpoint at the key road and rail junction of Bastogne, in Belgium.
	www.1-37armor.net (12035 words)

	5de Lichte Divisie / 21ste Panzerdivisie
		The 3rd Panzer Division had been raised before the war in 1935 at Wunsendorf, Berlin and as a result most of the troops that made up it's numbers were from Berlin or Prussians from Western Silesia or Brandenburg, these men went on to form the nucleas of the 5th leichte Division.
		In January 1942 21st Panzer Division took part in the thrust on Bengahzi and the subsequent action around the Gazala Line and the assault on Tobruk.
		It was after the failure to take Tobruk the Rommel blamed the commander of the 5th leichte Division General Streich and Colonel Olbrich who commanded the 5th Panzer Regiment for the failure in capturing the Libyan port and promtly sent them back to Germany.
	users.skynet.be /fa101291/eenheden/gew_dui/5lichte21panzer.htm (480 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The Maginot Line is fully garrisoned, and with the bulk of the German forces to the north, the Maginot garrison units would seem to have a good shot at crossing the Rhine and delivering a crippling blow against the south flank of the German onslaught.
		All German units are in supply, and the Germans use their replacement to restore the powerful 30th Corps with Rommel (with 7th Panzer destroyed Rommel has no effect on play, but the German player has left him on the board to more easily identify the units with him) near Sedan.
		The Germans in Belgium rush west, with a cavalry division from Eben Emael and a motorized and armored division from Ostend attacking the reduced French corps at St. Quentin.
	www.avalanchepress.com /StrangeDefeatStrategy.php (5386 words)

	German Panzer Unit in Norway April - June of 1940
		German use of armored fighting vehicles in the Norwegian Campaign is often ignored, since only very limited panzer force was present.
		The rest of the company (single Kleiner Panzer Befehlswagen I command tank, twelve PzKpfw I and six PzKpfw II tanks) went down with "Antaris H" (and other transports), which was sunk in the North Sea by a British submarine.
		There is no evidence of combat between German and French tanks, limiting use of German tanks to support the infantry operations, while being supported by the airforce itself.
	www.achtungpanzer.com /articles/norway.htm (1001 words)

	Formation Focus, History and Organization Details for the 11th Panzer Division
		The 11th Panzer was created and maintained from many parts, including the 4th, 5th and 9th Panzer divisions, the 113th Panzer Brigade, a Lehr battalion, and various infantry units.
		The 1/15th Panzer Battalion was later disbanded but, by December 1943, the 3/15th Panzer Battalion was reequipped with Panther tanks, then renamed the 1/15th Panzer Battalion, returning the Panzer regiment to its original configuration.
		This Division was created in Wehrkreis VIII* in the summer of 1940 as part of the general expansion of the panzer arm following the fall of France.
	www.lostbattalion.com /t-ff_11PZ.aspx (1483 words)

	3.SS-Panzer-Division Totenkopf
		From Kharkov, the Division was sent into the massive battles for the Kursk Salient, fighting in some of the most bloody and fierce combat of the war and the largest tank battle in all of History.
		The Division stayed on defensive operation in the south and central sector of the German front for nearly a year, and during this time, in October, 1943, the Division was reformed and renamed as a Panzer Division.
		The Panzer Grenadier Regiments of the new Panzer Division were renamed as "Thule" (5th SS PG Regiment) and "Theodor Eicke".
	www.feldgrau.com /3ss.html (1098 words)

	German 21st Panzer Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 21st Panzer Division was a German armoured division best known for its role in the Battles of El Alamenein (1942) and Normandy (1944) during World War II.
		Created as 5th Light Division or 5th Light Afrika Division in Africa in early 1941, from an ad hoc collection of smaller units rushed to support the collapsing Italian army.
		Reconstituted in France (1943) and remained there for rehabilitation and garrison duty until the Allied landings at Battle of Normandy, whereupon it was heavily engaged in the fighting at the Normandy beachheads, being the only Panzer division to engage the Allies on the first day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_21st_Panzer_Division (351 words)

	Panzer Endkampf - book about German Panzer Divisions
		panzer grenadier divisions were the corset stays of the Eastern Front.
		Endkampf investigates the decline of German panzer divisions on the Eastern Front, by examining the frequently
		raised by the division as an emergency measure fled from the battlefield the moment their officers were hit.
	www.quikmaneuvers.com /panzer_endkampf.html (710 words)

	Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The German High Command also initiated the later use of the V2 rocket, which was the first manmade object to reach the fringes of outer space, but the V1 was much more effective as a weapon system against England.
		German aircraft responded with air raids east of Paris and at Evreux and Mantes, west of the capital.
		By 15 June, the French and German air forces were at approximate parity with about 2400 aircraft each, but the French were operating from their own turf, and they had the support of the RAF.
	forums.ubi.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/25 (11109 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rommel resumed command and the division moved to Caen, west of Normandy, as a precaution in the event of an Allied invasion.
		After heated battles against American armor at Lorraine, the 21st Panzer Division ended its tour on the eastern front, where it was eventually destroyed by the Soviet army near Berlin.
		The second German campaign involves the 2nd Panzer Division, which was one of the original German armored divisions, led by tank pioneer General Heinz Guderian.
	www.gamespot.com /features/panzer_sg/chp4_2.html (436 words)

	AFV Uniform Collar Patches
		The 24th Panzer Division, the only panzer division to be created directly from a former cavalry unit, retained their golden yellow piping, but reconaissance troops in other divisions who wore the AFV uniform also wore this waffenfarbe.
		Panzer Regiment 24 of the 24th Panzer Division retained Golden Yellow piping; the division was a redesignation of the 1st Cavalry Division who had worn golden yellow.
		According to Martin Windrow in the revised edition of The Panzer Divisions by Osprey, photos of troops wearing the field grey AFV uniform early on in the invasion of Russia are shown wearing plain patches.
	www.deutschesoldaten.com /uniforms/collarpanzer.htm (1891 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Then the 1st SS Panzer Division advances, and the Recon unit blocking the road at 2010 decides not to die heroically (and pointlessly) so it retreats 3 hexes, still guarding the road between the Panzers and the U.S. The Panzers move to the victory hex at Malmedy.
		Panzer Lehr’s attack on St. Vith is blunted, but the two remaining German Armored divisions attacking CCR in 2609 destroy it, opening the road southwest to Trosvierges and the undefended U.S. V Corps HQ beyond.
		And the two SS Panzer divisions are loose in the Allied rear, free to split their component regiments up to take victory hexes independently.
	www.avalanchepress.com /ATStrategies.php?mode=print (1755 words)

	Combat Chronicle- 5th Armored Division
		Turning north, the Division forged the steel ring around the Germans in Normandy by advancing to the edge of the city of Argentan on 12 August-8 days before the Argentan-Falaise Gap was closed.
		The reconnaissance squadron of the Division sent a patrol across the German border on the afternoon of 11 September to be the first of the Allies to cross the enemy frontier.
		Crossing the Roer on 25 February 1945 the 5th spearheaded the XIII Corps drive to the Rhine, crossing the Rhine at Wesel, 30 March 1945.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/lineage/cc/005ad.htm (554 words)

	History of the 3rd Panzer Grenadiers
		The 3rd Panzer Grenadier Division was a German motorized infantry unit during the second world war.
		This reflected a new idea in a type of German battle formation focused on fast moving motorized troops accompanied by a battalion of tanks instead of of the typical tank regiment associated with panzer divisions.
		German troops shared great Kameraderie with their brothers in arms and were not inclined to desertion or mutiny.
	www.3pgd.org /history.htm (1531 words)

	Urgent Victory
		The Army National Guard's 28th Infantry Division deployed 600 leaders and battle staff members to lead a V Corps assault against a foreign enemy on a bloodless, digital battlefield in the five-day warfighter exercise Urgent Victory at the sun-bathed Grafenwoehr Training Area.
		Approximately 1,100 German soldiers from the II Korps (1,000 of these troops are with the 5th Panzer Division).
		Approximately 1,000 soldiers from the German 5th Panzer Division participated in the exercise in 2000, which was the first time the Corps was evaluated on a binational level.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/urgent-victory.htm (2368 words)

	Panzer in Norway
		Narvik) along with the German invasion of the Low Countries and France on May 10th, Allied forces were evacuated in early June.
		On April 25th, the one assigned to the Gruppe Pellangahr was immobilized by the British 25mm (French Hotchkiss) anti-tank gun position in the village of Kvam.
		Overall, Neubaufahrzeug Panzer- kampfwagen VI (Krupp turret) heavy tanks proved to be unsuited for combat but in many cases provided infantry with the only available support.
	www.nuav.net /panzer.html (1120 words)

	General Erwin Rommel
		His reputation was known throughout the division and his men looked up to him even though he was still a 25 year old who looked even younger because of his stature.
		During the invasion Rommel was well aware of the German Panzer units and the blending of artillery and air support, along with motorized infantry to achieve the desired Blitzkrieg results.
		With the situation again in hand, Rommel's 7th Panzer rolled south of Arras, but on May 24th a halt was ordered by OKW to allow the infantry to move up to protect the exposed armored spearheads.
	users.pandora.be /dave.depickere/Text/rommel.html (2126 words)

	tankerslife2
		The following is a photo collection with narrative of various exercises in Germany and the United States, involving the 3rd Armored Division and the 194th Armored Brigade.
		Exercises with the 3rd Armored Division "Spearhead" helping to guard the Fulda Gap, along with the 8th Infantry Division (Mech) and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, all part of the U.S. V Corps.
		Sister units in the area included the German 5th Panzer Division, Belgian 16th Mech Division, the Canadian Lahr Brigade, and various British units on constant rotation.
	tankerslife2.homestead.com (218 words)

	AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
		The 106th Infantry Division had relieved the 2nd Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line, and it was stretched thinly across 27 miles of the front along the the Belgium-German border.
		They were horse-drawn ambulance wagons and the big guns of the German 5th SS Panzer Division moving toward Hurt's outfit, which was posted to receive the brunt of what would be Hitler's final offensive in northwestern Europe.
		In a couple of days of intense fighting, 30 divisions of German troops broke through the American lines, and Hurt and some 7,000 other members of the 106th were captured in what was reported as the largest surrender in U.S. military annals.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter23/in230603will.html (1229 words)

	Erwin Rommel
		During the French campaign the 7th Panzer Division earned the title "Ghost Division" as no one knew were it was, including the German High Command.
		The "Afrika Korps" consisted of two divisions, the 5th Light Division which arrived at Tripoli on 14 February 1941 and followed in April by the 15th Panzer Division.
		Rundstedt and Guderian expressed the opposite view, that adequate reserves of panzers were to be stationed far enough inland from the Atlantic Wall, so that they could be switched easily to the main invasion front once it had been recognised.
	www.wargamer.com /Hosted/Panzer/rommel.htm (1072 words)

	Division Commander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Division Commander, by Bruce McFarlane, is an operational game where you take the role of a Divisional or Corps commander and game the battles of the Second World War at the scale you read about in history books.
		Divisions have to be assigned "orders" (without record-keeping or written orders) which affect the way the division fights.
		Division Card A4404 - Resolution is listed as 4 but Resolution for all the units in 9th Division should be 3.
	www.sabersedge.com /cwp/divcommander.htm (339 words)

	5.SS-Panzer-Division "Wiking"
		In August, 1941, the Division fought on the Dnieper River in attempts to establish a bridgehead.
		In the Summer and Fall of 1943, the Division fought in defensive operations in the Area of Kharkov and the Dnieper River.
		When the Soviets launched their massive offensive against the German Army Group Center in June, 1944, Wiking was one of many Divisions that was trapped in numerous pockets that were created as the Soviets rushed Westward towards the Reich.
	www.feldgrau.com /5ss.html (788 words)

	Germany's Jagdpanzer IV, Jagdpanzer IV/70 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They replaced the Marder IIs and Marder IIIs in the panzer division's tank destroyer battalions.
		Were issued to tank hunter detachments of Panzer divisions from March 1944.
		They were first used by the Hermann Göring Division in Italy, then with the 4th and 5th Panzer Divisions in Russia, and then with the Panzerlehr, 9th Panzer, and 12th SS Panzer Divisions in France.
	www.wwiivehicles.com /germany/tank_hunters/jagdpanzer_iv.html (702 words)

	Fulda Gap: A refight of a battle that never happened.
		Suddenly the West German defence is thrown into chaos by the landing of the 103rd Soviet Airborne Divison north east of Bad Neuheim.
		With the aid of a gas attack, the Mechanised 152nd Battalion, 5th Panzer division, capture the village of Wingerhausen.
		The West German 152nd Mechanised Battalion is repulsed in an attack on the village of Eichelsachsen.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /rbatch/little/daytwo.html (1367 words)

	gvb
		We represent a squad from the 5th Kompanie of the 38th regt.
		We have a couple of members who are fluent in german and we perform our drill in german as well.
		We are also able to represent german paratroopers in either luftwffer or SS uniforms.
	17sspanzer.homestead.com /gvb.html (289 words)

	German Breakthrough at Dinant
		General Hoth's 15th Panzer Corps broke through the French defensive line at Dinant.
		Attacks by the German 5th Panzer Division and 7th Pz.
		The French 1st Armored Division counterattacked on May 15th, engaging the German 7th Panzer Division (commanded by General Erwin Rommel) but to no avail.
	www.onwar.com /maps/wwii/blitz/dinant40.htm (60 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		More than 100 World War II veterans are here this weekend for the 60th annual reunion of the 4th Armored Division, a key unit that liberated the town of Bastogne near the France-Belgium border during the Battle of the Bulge.
		The division lost more than 1,500 men in that one battle, waged in the one of the worst European winters in years.
		He was 14 years old when his town of Luneville in France, 80 miles from the German border, was liberated after the 4th Armored Division fought a furious three-week battle with the 5th German Panzer Division, destroying 286 Panther tanks.
	www.ushmm.org /newsfeed/wlc/viewstory.php?storyid=8987 (586 words)

	Command Decisions presents Fulda Gap Paintball Scenario - Taylorsville, NC (North Carolina) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Fifth Corp's primary punch is the 3rd Armored Division and one brigade from the 4th Mechanized Division, defending the important US pre-positioned equipment storage sites critical for reinforcing units arriving from the United States.
		Also assigned to the defense of this area is the West German 5th Panzer Division, no stranger to fighting the Soviets during World War II where many of its former members fell on battlefields deep in the USSR.
		Initially caught flatfooted by the viciousness of the attack, American and West German aircraft are soon sparring for dominance of the skies with their Soviet counterparts.
	www.fuldagap.com (552 words)

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