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Panzer-Abteilung 211

This force would participate in a sub-operation of Operation Silver Fox code-named Operation Arctic Fox which was a campaign against Soviet Northern Front defenses at Salla, Finland in July 1941.


Alfred Ritter von Hubicki

Alfred Eduard Franz Ritter von Hubicki (5 February 1887 – 14 July 1971) was a Hungarian born Austrian army officer who was a Panzer General in the German army during World War II.

Aufklärungsabteilung

Initially, before the first campaigns of the Second World War they included horse-mounted and bicycle troops in the infantry divisions, and were equipped with motorcycle combinations (BMW R75s, Zündapps etc.), VW Kübelwagens, and light armoured cars in the more mobile motorised infantry and panzer divisions.

Battle of Bir Hakeim

Rommel had only 90,000 men and 575 Panzers compared to the British forces of 100,000 men and 994 tanks, but he had the initiative and his troops were more experienced, and had proven themselves more competent at desert warfare.

Battle of Prokhorovka

Obersturmfuhrer Rudolf von Ribbentrop of the 1st SS-Panzer Regiment's 2nd Battalion stated later that he knew at once that a major attack was underway.

Battle of Verrières Ridge

The main combatants were two Canadian infantry divisions—with additional support from the Canadian 2nd Armoured Brigade—against elements of three German SS Panzer divisions.

Bernhardt Line

Meanwhile, inland of V Corps, Orsogna had suffered three successive assaults but XIII Corps spearheaded by 2nd New Zealand Division could not get past the defending 26th Panzer Division.

Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar

Amongst the exhibits are British Valentine, Japanese type 95 HA-GO and Tyand-97 Chi- Ha, Sherman Crab flail tank, M-47 Patton Centurion Mark ll, German Panzer and pride of India Vijayanta.

Donald Callander

He received his first Military Cross as an “immediate award for courage and leadership” at La Bassée where, as commander of the battalion's anti-tank platoon, equipped only with three Hotchkiss guns Ordnance QF 2 pounders, they knocked out 21 German tanks from Rommel's 7th Panzer Division, while protecting the retreat of the allies to the beaches during the Battle of Dunkirk.

Dubno

In the Battle of Brody (1941) the German 1st Panzer Group under Ewald von Kleist managed to break the counter-attack by Soviet 9th and 19th Mechanized Corps, and 8th Mechanized Corps.

Earle Bunker

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Moore had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for leading his battalion against Erwin Rommel's Panzers in North Africa.

Erich Kahsnitz

title= Commander of Füsilier-Regiment "Großdeutschland"|

Everyman's War

As the seasoned infantry and tank units of the German 11th Panzer "Ghost" division move silently into position on the snow covered hills around Nennig, Germany, a battle weary GI and his unit stand ready to defend the small town, a key position in the Allied advance to win the war.

Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin

On July 1, 1974, he returned to duty with the German field army, assuming command of the 7th Panzer Division, stationed in Unna.

Franz Riedel

He attended the Panzer school Sagan between January and February 1944 and returned to the division, to the 7th Company, 10th SS Panzer Regiment.

Helmuth Weidling

Hoffmeister was in command when most of General Hans Jordan's German 9th Army, along with the XLI Panzer Corps, was encircled by the enemy during the Soviet Bobruysk Offensive.

Hermann Schulte-Heuthaus

title=Commander of Füsilier Regiment Großdeutschland|

Hulon B. Whittington

The destruction of this vehicle blocked all movement of the remaining enemy column consisting of over 100 vehicles of a Panzer unit.

Italian participation in the Eastern Front

While the 11th Army besieged Odessa, the CSIR was attached to First Panzer Group under General von Kleist.

Jag Panzer

Jag Panzer sought to tackle more ambitious territory for their next album, with Thane to the Throne, a concept album about William Shakespeare's Macbeth.

José Miguel Insulza

He is nicknamed El Panzer, for his tank-like drive and reputation due to his ability to take political heat with little apparent damage.

Kliment Voroshilov tank

On 23–24 June, a single KV-2 effectively pinned down elements of the 6th Panzer Division – the spearhead of Panzergruppe 4 – for a full day at the bridgeheads of the Dubysa river near Raseiniai, Lithuania, playing a prominent role in delaying the German advance on Leningrad and destroying around two dozen German tanks.

Kurt Hartrampf

He was transferred to command the I Battalion, SS Panzer Regiment 10, 10th SS Panzer Division Frundsberg (refers to 16th Century German landsknecht commander Georg von Frundsberg), in 1944 and then was given command of the 102 SS Heavy Panzer Battalion in August 1944.

Łukasz Ciepliński

His distinguished service during the Polish September Campaign was recognized by General Tadeusz Kutrzeba, who personally awarded him Poland's highest military decoration for valor, the Cross of the Virtuti Militari for destroying six German tanks.

Military history of Latvia during World War II

Panzers of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz von Gross-Zauche und Camminetz had been sent back to the capital of Ostland, Riga and in ferocious defensive battles had halted the Soviet advance in late April, 1944.

Monte Cassino

Fortunately, German officers Lt. Col. Julius Schlegel (a Roman Catholic) and Capt. Maximilian Becker (a Protestant), both from the Panzer-Division Hermann Göring, had them transferred to the Vatican at the beginning of the battle.

Operation Battleaxe

The primary responsibility of the frontier defence was charged to the 15th Panzer Division, which had recently received a new commander, General Walter Neumann-Silkow, on 8 June.

Panzer Badge

On November 3, 1944 the head of the Luftwaffe, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, instituted the Luftwaffe Panzer Badge, to honour the Panzer troops of the Luftwaffe Field Divisions.

Panzer General: Russian Assault

Panzer General: Russian Assault is the sequel to Panzer General: Allied Assault that debuted in January 2010.

Panzer General: Russian Assault is the name of a board game developed by Petroglyph Games, sequel to Panzer General: Allied Assault that debuted in January 2010.

Panzer Grenadier series

The Panzer Grenadier series of Board wargames is Avalanche Press's series of World War II tactical land combat.

Panzer I

Some Chinese Panzer Is were captured by the Japanese and were displayed at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

Panzertruppenschule I

Panzertruppenschule I (Armoured Troops School No.1) was the first of two major schools set up by the German Panzerwaffe in World War II to train German armour officers to operate Panzers.

Paul-Albert Kausch

In February 1943, he was tasked with raising the 11th SS Panzer Battalion Nordland, which was ordered to the Oranienbaumer, Kessel sector during the withdrawal to the Narva.

Red Panzer

During the recent events chronicled in Infinite Crisis, Red Panzer was one of many superhuman criminals who joined the villainous Society organized by Alexander Luthor, Jr. Red Panzer is sent, along with other villains, on a murderous rampage throughout Gotham City, as seen Gotham Central #37 (2005).

Rudolf Demme

On January 10, 1943 Demme became a Commander the 59th Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment of the 20th Panzer Division and led his unit through the bloody battles on the Eastern front until July 25, 1944 (Orel, Brjansk, Mogilew, Witebsk, Newel, Bobruisk, Cholm).

Rudolf von Waldenfels

Rudolf Freiherr von Waldenfels is the grandnephew of highly decorated Wehrmacht Panzer general Rudolf Freiherr von Waldenfels.

Semyon Krivoshein

Krivoshein took position in town of Oboyan, and together with 6th Tank Corps in Prokhorovka during the battle he faced the main weight of German assault, led by the top Wehrmacht panzer General Hermann Hoth.

SS Brigade Westfalen

Regiment "Holzer" was named after its commander Obersturmführer, Friedrich Holzer and consisted of the SS Panzer Training and Replacement Regiment in Augustdorf, which consisted of five battalions.

The Rubber Band

The series of black-and-white telemovies stars Tino Buazzelli (Nero Wolfe), Paolo Ferrari (Archie Goodwin), Pupo De Luca (Fritz Brenner), Renzo Palmer (Inspector Cramer), Roberto Pistone (Saul Panzer), Mario Righetti (Orrie Cather) and Gianfranco Varetto (Fred Durkin).

Theodor Plievier

The two main characters in Stalingrad are the Panzer commander Vilshofen and Gnotke, NCO of a Strafbattalion (penal battalion).

Timimi

On 21 January 1942, during World War II, German general Erwin Rommel commanded his Axis-Panzer army through Cyrenaica, and his troops reached Timimi in 3 February 1942, stopping there.

Tulle murders

After the Normandy Landings, the 2nd Panzer Division received orders to position themselves in the region between Tulle and Limoges to suppress the Maquis, who, in coordination with the Allied invasion, were intensifying their insurgency against German interests and forces.

Vespula

Vespula austriaca (Panzer, 1799) – Red Cuckoo Wasp

Walter Reder

On Reder's direct orders the SS-Panzer-Aufklärungsabteilung 16 destroyed the village Marzabotto in reprisal for the local support given to the partisans and the resistance movement.

Walter von Wietersheim

Company/Panzer Regiment Großdeutschland

Company/Panzer Regiment Grossdeutschland with the rank of Hauptmann in May 1944, when Grossdeutschland was heavily involved in defensive actions on the Eastern Front.

Werner Ostendorff

Ostendorff was assigned command of the 17. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen", officially effective 1 November 1943.


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