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8th Panzer Regiment (Oberstleutnant Hans Cramer) 1st Battalion (Hauptmann Johannes Kümmel) 2nd Battalion 1st Battalion of the 104th Motor Infantry Regiment (Wilhelm Bach) [c] Reconnaissance Battalion 33 1st Abteilung of the 33rd Artillery Regiment 33rd Panzerjäger Battalion (12 50 mm (1.97 in) PaK 38 and 21 37 mm (1.46 in) PaK 36 anti-tank guns)
The two battalions comprising the 10th Panzer Regiment from East Prussian were added, as was the 8th Rifle Brigade, which now controlled the 8th Rifle Regiment of three battalions and the 8th Motorcycle Battalion. The panzer battalions were equipped primarily with Czech tanks and Mk II light tanks, leaving the 8th Panzer Division with a total ...
Panzer Group Africa commanded by General der Panzertruppe Erwin Rommel. German Afrika Korps (commanded by Generalleutnant Ludwig Crüwell) 15th Panzer Division (Generalmajor Walter Neumann-Silkow until 6 December (killed in action), then Generalmajor Gustav von Vaerst) 8th Panzer Regiment (2 bns) 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment
The siege of Tobruk was the first occasion in the war that German Panzer units had been stopped. [69] The siege of Tobruk was lifted in December 1941 in the course of Operation Crusader. Axis forces re-captured the port on 21 June 1942, after defeating the Eighth Army in the Battle of Gazala . [ 70 ]
In the centre, the 7th Royal Tank Regiment reached Fort Capuzzo by noon and scattered the defenders, who retreated north to join the 15th Panzer Division, between them and Bardia. [40] Soon afterwards, they faced several counter-attacks by a battalion from the 8th Panzer Regiment of the 15th Panzer Division.
Between Gazala and Timimi, just west of Tobruk, the Eighth Army was able to concentrate its forces sufficiently to turn and fight. By 4 February, the Axis advance had been halted and the front line stabilised from Gazala on the coast 30 mi (48 km) west of Tobruk, to an old Ottoman fortress at Bir Hakeim 50 mi (80 km) inland to the south.
He took command of the 15th Panzer Regiment in 1935, having been promoted oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel). [1] His new command was part of the 8th Panzer Brigade, 5th Panzer Division, and was part of the force that occupied the Sudetenland in 1938. As a regimental commander, Streich had difficult relationships with two of his battalion ...
remodeled October 1970 PanzerJgBtl 114 (Anti Tank Battalion) PzBtl 114: April 1981: Neunburg vorm Wald: disbanded September 1992: PzBtl 120: March 1970: Hemer: renamed April 1975 PzBtl 203: PzBtl 121: April 1981: Kümmersbruck, Schweppermann-Kaserne: disbanded September 1992: PzBtl 123: March 1959 (PzBtl4) Amberg 1960 Gärmersdorf ...