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Eastern Front, April 1944. 501st is attached to 4th Panzer Army in May, and 3rd Army in June. [10] On 12 March, the battalion joined the 256th infantry division in a counterattack north of Nipinzy; by the next day, the enemy forces were surrounded and destroyed. By 1 April, spare parts had been delivered and 27 tanks were operational. [10]
501st Heavy Panzer Battalion - original unit surrended in Tunisia campaign, reformed and destroyed on Eastern Front; 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion - redesignated 511th on 5 January 1945; 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion - largely destroyed in Normandy, refitted and deployed on Eastern Front; 504th Heavy Panzer Battalion; 505th Heavy Panzer Battalion
Kampfgruppe Lang had 77 tanks, including twenty Tigers of the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion and motorised infantry from the 10th Panzer Division. The rest of the 10th Panzer Division was to attack once the objectives were achieved and advance westwards, about 25 mi (40 km) south of Medjez. [ 2 ]
The I SS Panzer Corps also included a number of ad hoc vanguard units, including Kampfgruppe Peiper (forming part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), which contained a panzer battalion (72 mixed Panzer IV and Panther tanks) from the 1st SS Panzer Regiment, the 501st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion (45 Tiger Is) and the 3rd SS Panzer Grenadier Battalion. [67]
The 501st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion was at full strength except for the 4th (Light) Company. Each panzer company possessed 14 Tiger IIs, gave a total strength of 45. However the battalion was plagued with maintenance problems and mechanical breakdowns, it is probable that only around 30-35 Tigers actually participated in the initial advance of ...
The 424th, previously numbered the 501st, had been one of the first German heavy tank battalions to be formed, and had fought in Africa and on the Eastern Front. [ 2 ] It received its first Jagdtigers on 16 February; by 13 March, it had been brought up to a strength of 20 vehicles in two companies, with the 3rd Company made up of personnel ...
101st Heavy SS Panzer Battalion (German: Schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 101) was a German heavy tank battalion in the Waffen-SS during World War II. With the introduction of new Tiger II tanks in late 1944, the unit was renumbered as the 501st Heavy SS Panzer Battalion ( German : Schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 501 ).
The unit was established in St. Pölten on 20 July 1943 [7] and formed from the men of 9th Panzer Division's 2nd Battalion, Pz.Rgt.33. [8] Equipped with 45 Tiger Is , the 506th first saw combat on 20 September, attached to the 9.Pz.Div. Ten tigers, in support of a kampfgruppe from the 10th Panzergrenadier Regiment committed to an assault on the ...