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The 21st Panzer Division was a German armoured division best ... It was heavily engaged in the fighting at the Normandy beachheads, being the only Panzer division to ...
Feuchtinger was commander of the 21st Panzer Division during the Normandy Invasion. Later in 1944 he was tried and convicted of treason by the Reich court, demoted and sentenced to execution. The sentence was commuted by the intervention of Adolf Hitler. Feuchtinger did not report to his next assignment, and avoided the German military police ...
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 Battalion; 116th Panzer Division ...
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich [39] - SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Weidinger [nb 8] Battlegroup Weidinger [39] 1st Battalion, 4th SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer" [55] 14th, 15th and 16th (Support) Companies, 4th SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Der Führer" [55] 1st Battalion, 3rd SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment "Deutschland" [55]
In the Battle for Normandy the 21st Panzer Division was the only mechanized unit near the area of the invasion, and was the only one with an opportunity to realize Rommel's intentions and meet the invaders at the beach. [44]
Around 10:30 a.m. General Erich Marcks, commander of the German LXXXIV Corps to which the 21st Panzer Division was attached, ordered the entire 21st to leave a single company from the division's 22nd Panzer Regiment to deal with the paratroopers and move the rest of the division to attack the British forces advancing from the beachhead toward ...
The 21st Panzer Division was transferred to Caen in May, deploying its 146 tanks and 50 assault guns south of the city, two panzergrenadier battalions on either side of the Orne north of the city, and its artillery on the coast to provide more defensive depth to the 716th Infantry Division on its 8 mi (13 km) front.
A second division, the 21st Panzer Division, moved into the area in May 1944 with its battalions positioned at Vimont just east of Caen, [15] and at Cairon to the west of the Caen canal bridge. [16] The 21st Panzer Division was a new formation based on the former Africa Korps unit destroyed in North Africa. [15]