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The 18th Infantry Division (German: 18. Infanterie-Division ) was formed on 1 October 1934 as Infantry Command III ( Infanterieführer III ) in Liegnitz and renamed the 18th Infantry Division on 15 October 1935.
On mobilisation, the German Army raised 113 Reserve Infantry Regiments (of 332 battalions) and 96 Landwehr Infantry Regiments (of 294 battalions). Meanwhile a number of existing units of various sizes were expanded. The Lehr Infantry Battalion was expanded to form the Lehr Infantry Regiment. [7]
World War II. On 30 March 1945, while assigned to Company K, 18th Infantry Regiment near Eisern, Germany, 1LT Will rescued three wounded men, single-handedly disabled two German machinegun nests and led his squad in the capture of two others, all despite his own injuries.
The designation "Light" (leichte in German) had various meanings in the German Army of World War II. There were a series of 5 Light divisions; the first four were pre-war mechanized formations organized for use as mechanized cavalry, and the fifth was an ad hoc collection of mechanized elements rushed to Africa to help the Italians and ...
A patrol of Company F, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, searches the woods between Eupen and Butgenbach, Belgium, for German parachutists who were dropped in that area The Germans' Operation Stößer was a plan to drop paratroopers in the American rear in the High Fens area, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of Malmédy ...
This is a list of German brigades in World War II. The list aims to include all brigade-level military formations of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS during World War II. Brigades, in German army parlance prior to 1944, generally designated formations of two regiments from the same branch of arms. [1]: 84 For instance, 2.
The 18th Army (German: 18. Armee ) was a World War II field army in the German Wehrmacht . Formed in November 1939 in Military Region ( Wehrkreis ) VI, the 18th Army was part of the offensive into the Netherlands ( Battle of the Netherlands ) and Belgium ( Battle of Belgium ) during Fall Gelb and later moved into France in 1940.
Armeekorps) was a corps which served in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. The corps was created on May 20, 1940 in Wehrkreis III . During the war, the corps was subordinated to the German 6th, 16th, 18th, and 3rd Panzer Armies.