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  German Fifth Panzer Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The army was reformed on 24 January 1944 as Panzer Group West, the armoured reserve for OB West.
The method of employment of Panzer Group West in the event of an allied invasion was the subject of much controversy, with OB West commander Gerd von Rundstedt and Army Group B commander Erwin Rommel favouring different methods.
The Fifth Panzer Army was encircled and trapped in the Ruhr Pocket, and surrendered on 17 April 1945.
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 World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The German and Italian forces in Tunisia were caught in the pincers of Allied advances from Algeria in the west and Libya in the east.
The North African war proved to be a disaster for Italy, and when the Allies invaded Sicily on July 10 in Operation Husky, capturing the island in a little over a month, the regime of Benito Mussolini collapsed.
On April 4, the encirclement was completed and the German Army Group B commanded by Field Marshal Walther Model was trapped in the Ruhr Pocket.
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 Afrika Korps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On October 1, 1941, the German 5th Light Division was redesignated as the 21st Panzer Division, still attached to the Afrika Korps.
On August 15 Panzer Group Africa was activated with Rommel in command, and command of the Afrika Korps was turned over to Ludwig Crüwell.
The army was supported by a number of smaller units from both the German and Italian armed forces.
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
In the first phase the German Army was to engage the Soviet main force as close to the western border of the Soviet Union as possible, cut it up by encircling movements, and destroy it and so prevent the Russians from fighting a delaying action across the vast spaces of their country.
Hitler instructed the German Army of Norway to be prepared to occupy the Petsamo region and to conduct an offensive from Finland to cut the Murmansk (Kirov) Railroad.
Army Group South, commanded by Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, was to attack from southern Poland and Romania, its flank armies converging on Kiev to trap the Soviet armies in the western Ukraine in a great pocket west of the Dnieper (Dnepr) River.
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To the south, the 6th SS Panzer Army, spearheaded by the 1st SS Panzer Corps, hit the Soviet 7th Guard Army in their bridgehead at Hron on the Danube River and succeeded in driving the Red Army forces back.
Panzer Corps retakes Lauban in Silesia from the 3
German bombers begin to raid the bridge in an attempt to destroy the structure.
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 Achtung Panzer! - Hasso Von Manteuffel
During North African campaign he commanded a division and launched very successful counterattack in Tunis area cutting Allied communications lines behind the frontline.On May 1st of 1943, Von Manteuffel was promoted to the rank of Major-General.
On September 1st of 1944, Hasso Von Manteuffel became the Commander-in-Chief of 5th Panzer Army and received the rank of General of the Panzer Troops.
In December of 1944, Hasso Von Manteuffel was the commander of 5th Panzer Army, which was ordered to drive across Meuse to Brussels and Antwerp, protecting the flank of 6th Panzer Army.
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 Achtung Panzer! - Erwin Rommel!
In preparations for German Invasion of Low Countries and France, codenamed Fall Gelb, Rommel's 7th Panzer Division became the part of 15th Panzer Corps, which was positioned, in the central sector.
The 15th Panzer Corps was under the command of General Hoth.
On February 14th of 1941, leading elements 5th Leichte (Panzer) Division along with their commander Erwin Rommel landed in Tripoli and was joined in early May by 15th Panzer Division.
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 PART FIVE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CAMPAIGNS IN THE BALKANS AND
Moreover, since the German parachute troops had been decimated in Crete, the number of men qualified to carry out huge-scale airborne operations at the beginning of the invasion was insufficient.
The complete surprise achieved by the German invasion of Russia on 22 June may be partly attributed to the fact that the Balkan operations drew attention from the preparations that took place in Poland during April and May 1941.
German military authors state that the diversion in the Balkans had hardly any influence on the course of the subsequent campaign, since Germany's casualties were relatively low and the expenditure of materiel and supplies insignificant.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/balkan/20_260_5.htm   (1831 words)

  
 North Africa
In North Africa the Germans and their Italian allies controlled a narrow strip along the Mediterranean coast between Tunisia and Egypt with an army numbering some 100,000 men under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Powerful German armored units moved out from passes in south central Tunisia on the front of the U.S. II Corps, in an attempt to turn the south flank of the British First Army, commanded by Lt. Gen.
The Germans defeated the Allies in a series of sharp armored actions, forced a withdrawal of American troops through the Kasserine Pass and the valley beyond, and made a spectacular advance of almost a hundred miles before determined countermeasures by the Allies brought them to a halt, still short of their objectives, on 22 February.
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 Panzerschreck
Then again, an army report on the fighting around Posen dated March 1st 1945 emphasizes the effectiveness of the Panzerschreck and states that static targets such as AT gun and infantry emplacements had been successfully attacked at ranges up to 1000m (!).
In the meantime the germans had captured a number of the english Bren carrier armoured tracked vehicles during the course of the war.
The german army's weapon's bureau had a series of projected future tank designs, the so-called E-types (E = Entwicklung "development"), wherein the E-number roughly corresponded with the weight class of the vehicle.
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 ASL Reading List
This is a great book, giving a large amount of detail on both the battle itself as well as the upper echelon machinations and the attempts to get supplies to both armies Latimer's writing style is fairly fluid and quite engaging.
Hitler's Ardennes Offensive: The German View of the Battle of the Bulge by Danny Parker
Normandy to the Ruhr: With the 116th Panzer Division Guderian
www.cavalcadeofwhimsy.com /wargaming/asl/asl_reading_list.htm   (3004 words)

  
 T. Cadman
Aireview Airview’s German Military Aircraft in the Second World War (2 volumes) Kantosha (Tokyo) 1958-1960, 1 volume is 1st edit JAPANESE TEXT with 258 pp, photos and line drawings and other is 2nd edit English text with 160 pp, both volumes very good hardcovers in slipcase, counts as 2 books, $40
Army Air Forces (Western Flying Training Command) Tentative Students' Manual AT-6: Basic Flying no edit or pub date stated, 108 pp, many illus, good, light discoloration to covers and first 2 pp, wear to edges of covers, contents not affected except for first 2 pp, stringbound large softcover, $75
Army Air Forces Target Germany: The Army Air Forces' Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command's First Year Over Europe Simon and Schuster (NY) 1943, 1st edit, 121 pp, many photos, map, good+, DJ (missing piece from spine head and along top extremety), $50
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 Ground Zero Books Ltd. Title Index
Chronicles of the Gringos: The U.S. Army in the Mexican War, 1846-1848.
United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific.
The German Campaigns in the Balkans (Spring 1941).
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