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elements of 2 Panzer Divisions; Strength; Unknown: 262 tanks & assault guns: Casualties and losses; 41 medium tanks 7 light tanks 7 tank destroyers [1] 200 tanks & assault guns lost [2] 86 destroyed; 114 damaged; During the battle, 73 tanks were destroyed / damaged by P-47s. [3] 5th Panzer Army losses in September of 1944 in Arracourt region ...
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The 12th Panzer Division was an armoured division in the German Army, established in 1940. In October 1940 the 2nd Motorised Infantry Division was reorganized as the 12th Panzer Division , and in June 1941 it joined Operation Barbarossa , fighting in the battles of Minsk and Smolensk .
Leopard 2A5s of the German Army (Heer). This article deals with the tanks (German: Panzer) serving in the German Army (Deutsches Heer) throughout history, such as the World War I tanks of the Imperial German Army, the interwar and World War II tanks of the Nazi German Wehrmacht, the Cold War tanks of the West German and East German Armies, all the way to the present day tanks of the Bundeswehr.
The 12th Army was activated on October 13, 1939, with General Wilhelm List in command. [1] First seeing defensive action along the Siegfried Line, the army was part of Rundstedt's Army Group A responsible for the Ardennes offensive.
The headquarters had recently taken over the château at La Caine, about 12 mi (19 km) to the south-west of the city of Caen, north of Thury-Harcourt. Squadrons of North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers and Hawker Typhoon fighter bombers of the RAF Second Tactical Air Force attacked the château and its grounds with bombs and air-to-ground ...
When the offensive failed, the 6th Panzer Army left for Hungary, leaving the division behind to fight off the approaching Americans. The division was encircled near Wuppertal with Army Group B within the Ruhr Pocket. On April 12, Major General Koenig assumed command of the division, having also assumed command of the 272nd Volksgrenadier Division.
The Schützenpanzer Lang HS.30, officially designated as Schützenpanzer, lang, Typ 12-3 or SPz lg 12-3 for short, [2] (German for "Infantry tank, long, Type 12-3"), [a] was a West German infantry fighting vehicle developed between 1956 and 1958. [3] It was designed by the Swiss company Hispano-Suiza and powered by a Rolls-Royce engine. Due to ...