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It then reassembled west of the Rur River with a strength of 10,000 men, 28 Panther tanks and 14 Panzer IV tanks. Along with elements of the 15th Panzer Grenadier Division, 9th Panzer fought a bitter six-day battle with the U.S. 2nd Armored Division in the Puffendorf-Immendorf sector, knocking out 76 tanks and inflicting 1,300 casualties. [14]
The VK 30.01 (D) and VK 30.02 (D), also known as VK.3001 (DB) were two tank designs made by Daimler Benz submitted for the VK 30 project for a 30 tonne tank to be used by the German army. The Versuchskonstruktion 30.01 (D) and 30.02 (D), in English "experimental design 30 tonnes Daimler", [ a ] was intended to counter the Soviet T-34 and ...
4th Light Division / 9th Panzer Division 62 143 d: Panzer Regiment 25 225 N/A e: 11th Panzer Division N/A c: 143 12th Panzer Division N/A c: 293 13th Panzer Division N/A c: 149 14th Panzer Division N/A c: 147 16th Panzer Division N/A c: 146 17th Panzer Division N/A c: 202 18th Panzer Division N/A c: 218 19th Panzer Division N/A c: 228 20th ...
Panzerjäger für 8.8cm PaK43 auf Fgst Panther I. A jagdpanzer ("hunting tank") self-propelled anti-tank gun based on the Panther chassis with a 71-calibres long 8.8cm PaK43 gun in a fixed casemate superstructure with limited traverse mounting. 392 built by MIAG and MNH from January 1944 to March 1945. Panzer-Bergegerät (Panther I) (Sd.Kfz.179)
The Versuchskonstruktion 30 were two series of tank designs by Germany in World War II, originally intended as heavy 'breakthrough' tanks, but later switching completely to designate medium tanks to succeed the Panzer III, IV, and the planned VK 20 series tanks.
9th Panzer Division (previously 4th Light Division) 10th Panzer Division; ... one tank destroyer battalion with: three companies (each with twelve 3.7 cm guns)
A Panther Ausf. A tank of 12th SS Panzer division in Paris shortly before the Allied invasion, June 1944. At the time of the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, there were initially only two Panther-equipped Panzer regiments in the Western Front, with a total of 156 Panthers between them. From June through August 1944, an additional seven ...
The 9th SS Panzer Division "Hohenstaufen" (German: 9. SS-Panzerdivision "Hohenstaufen") [a] was a Waffen-SS armoured division of Nazi Germany during World War II. It participated in battles on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. [1] The division was activated in December 1942. [2]