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Panzer Campaigns is a series of operational level wargames originally developed by John Tiller Software, and currently by Wargame Design Studio. The games were originally published until 2010 by HPS Simulations, then self published by John Tiller Software until being bought out by Wargame Design Studio in 2021, after Tiller's death. [ 1 ]
The Battle of Chambois was an August 1944 battle during the Battle of Normandy in World War II.Prior to the battle, a pocket had formed around Falaise, Calvados, where the German Army Group B, with the 7th Army and the Fifth Panzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe West) were encircled by the Western Allies.
2.1 Seventh Army / Panzer Group West. 2.1.1 Army Troops. 2.1.2 I SS Panzer Corps. ... Normandy 1944, German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational ...
Allied forces formed a pocket around Falaise, Calvados, in which German Army Group B, consisting of the 7th Army and the Fifth Panzer Army (formerly Panzergruppe West), were encircled by the Western Allies. The battle resulted in the destruction of most of Army Group B west of the Seine, which opened the way to Paris and the Franco-German border.
Approximately 1,950 Norwegian military personnel took part in the Normandy campaign in separate Norwegian units or as part of other Allied units in addition to 45 civilian ships [3] with approximately 1,000 men from Nortraship. The Norwegian units operated under British command and were therefore primarily employed in the Gold, Sword and Juno ...
2nd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht) 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich; 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen; 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg; 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend; 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen; 21st Panzer Division; 94th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion; 102nd SS Heavy Panzer ...
Nearly all of the German formations that had caused significant damage to the Canadians throughout the Normandy campaign had been destroyed. The Panzer Lehr Division and the 9th SS Panzer Division existed in name only. [41] The 12th SS Panzer Division had lost 94 percent of its armour, nearly all of its field-guns and 70 percent of its vehicles.
No Holding Back. Operation Totalize, Normandy, August 1944. Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-8117-0584-4. Stacey, C.P. (1960). Official History of The Canadian Army In The Second World War. Volume III. The Victory Campaign: The Operations In North-West Europe 1944–1945. Ottawa: The Queen's Printer And Controller of Stationery. Waite, Donald E. (2010).