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The 21st Panzer, along with 15th Panzer Division, did score a notable victory over XXX Corps (and in particular the 7th Armoured Division) on 22 November at Sidi Rezegh and broke through to the Egyptian border, posing a threat to the Eighth Army. Over-stretched supply lines and the urgent need to assist the Axis forces around Tobruk, which were ...
[37] Vehicles were in short supply, and as OKH was well aware of the production out of Baustab Becker, they made the unusual requirement that the reforming 21st Panzer Division not make a request for any equipment or vehicles. The OKH instruction issued 27 June 1943, read: "Equipment and vehicles are not allotted.
Marder I of the 21st Panzer in Normandy, converted from Hotchkiss, 1944. The Marder I was developed in May 1942 by Major Alfred Becker. It carried the 75 mm Pak 40 anti-tank gun on a Lorraine chassis. As the gun was relatively large, the original crew compartment superstructure was removed to create the space needed to work the gun.
The 21st Panzer Division was a new formation based on the former Africa Korps unit destroyed in North Africa. [15] Although equipped with an assortment of older tanks and other armoured vehicles, the division's officers were veterans and 2,000 men from the old division filled its ranks. [13]
Badsey wrote that had the kampfgruppe counter-attack succeeded along with those of the 21st Panzer Division, the arrival of the 12th SS Panzer Division on 7 June, might have led to the Second Army being surrounded. Badsey wrote that after D-Day, historians and writers concentrate on the defence of Caen by the 12th SS and the 21st Panzer ...
The 21st Panzer Division was a new formation based on the former Afrika Korps unit, which had been destroyed in North Africa. [26] Although equipped with an assortment of older tanks and other armoured vehicles, the division's officers were veterans and 2,000 men from the old division filled its ranks. [8]
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 ...
These were from Panzer Regiment 22 in the 21st Panzer Division (Major-General Edgar Feuchtinger) primarily equipped with Panzer IV tanks, supplemented with obsolete French SOMUA S35s and self-propelled anti-tank guns on various French chassis. [7] These panzers had already suffered losses when attacked by Typhoon fighter-bombers on the road ...