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2. 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion - Wikipedia

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   The 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion (German: "schwere Panzerabteilung 501"; abbreviated: "s PzAbt 501") was a German heavy Panzer Abteilung (an independent battalion-sized unit) equipped with heavy tanks. The battalion was the second unit to receive and use the Tiger I heavy tank, changing to Tiger IIs in mid-1944.

3. Heinz von Westernhagen - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. German heavy tank battalion - Wikipedia

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   Early formation units experimented to find the correct combination of heavy Tiger tanks supported by either medium Panzer III tanks or reconnaissance elements. In 1942 this consisted of 20 Tigers and 16 Panzer IIIs, [verification needed] composed of two companies, each with four platoons of two Tigers and two Panzer IIIs. Each company commander ...

5. Operation Market Garden order of battle - Wikipedia

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   SS-Panzer Artillerie Regiment 9 Abteilung I, SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Ludwig Spindler; SS-Panzer-Aufklärung-Abteilung 9, Hauptsturmführer Viktor Eberhard Gräbner; SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 9, Hauptsturmfürer Klaus von Allworden; SS-Panzer-Pionier-Abteilung 9, SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Möller; SS-FlaK-Abteilung 9, Obersturmfürer Gropp

6. 506th Heavy Panzer Battalion - Wikipedia

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   The unit was transported to Eifel in preparation for the offensive, but orders were changed and the unit marched south before engaging in a skirmish at Andler on 17 December. The 506th and schwere Panzerabteilung 301 "Funklenk" were assigned to the 6th Panzer Army and on the 18th schwere Panzer-Kompanie "Hummel" was consolidated with the 506th ...

7. Joachim Peiper - Wikipedia

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   The 6th Panzer Army designated the LSSAH as the mobile-strike force, under the command of SS-Oberführer Wilhelm Mohnke. Four combined-arms battle groups composed the 6th Panzer Division; Peiper commanded Kampfgruppe Peiper , the best-equipped battle group, which included the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion equipped with seventy-ton Tiger II tanks.

8. Operation Ochsenkopf - Wikipedia

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   On 17 March, Axis forces were reinforced by the 504th Heavy Panzer Battalion, while the 501st repaired 25 of its tanks bringing it back up to quarter strength. [38] However, Ochsenkopf was to be the last major Axis offensive by the 5th Panzer Army in Africa. [1] On 25 March, General Alexander ordered a counter-attack.

9. 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion - Wikipedia

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   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 ).