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On 29 December, 21st Panzer reported the following strength: 72 Panzer IV tanks, 38 Panther tanks and 8 Flakpanzer IV. [9] From January 7 to 21 Col Hans von Luck's 125 Regiment of the 21st took part in Operation Nordwind, aiming to sever the American supply line to Strasbourg. Two weeks of heavy fighting in the villages of Rittershoffen and ...
The regiment was mustered into Federal service for a term of three years as the 21st Illinois Infantry on June 28, 1861, with Grant as its colonel. It was ordered to move to Ironton, Missouri , on July 3, but instead operated on the line of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad until August.
8th Panzer Regiment (2 bns) 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment; 2nd Machine Gun Battalion; 3rd Engineers Battalion; 33rd Recon Battalion; 33rd Anti-tank Battalion; 33rd Artillery Regiment; 21st Panzer Division (Generalmajor Johann von Ravenstein until 29 November (prisoner of war), then Generalmajor Karl Böttcher) 5th Panzer Regiment (2 bns)
21st Division or 21st Infantry Division ... 21st Panzer Division ... 21st Air Division (United States) See also. 21st Brigade (disambiguation) 21st Regiment ...
Johann "Hans" Theodor von Ravenstein (1 January 1889 – 26 March 1962) was a German general (generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II.He commanded the 21st Panzer Division from May 1941 until being made a prisoner of war in late November 1941.
The 1st Panzer Brigade was organized in 1934, [1] followed by others during Germany's rearmament. [2] Before the war, a Panzer Brigade was composed of a staff and two panzer regiments. [3] From the beginning of the war in 1939 Panzer Brigades were present and operational in the German Order of Battle until at least the summer of 1943.
South of the border, Panzer Regiment 5, 21st Panzer Division, attacked the 7th Indian Brigade at Sidi Omar but was repulsed by the 1st Field Regiment RA firing over open sights. A second attack left Panzer Regiment 5 with few operational tanks. [46] The rest of 21st Panzer Division had headed north-east, south of the border, to Halfaya. [47]
Erwin Rommel discusses review of Feuchtinger's 21st Panzer Division. By May 1944 the reformed 21st Panzer was nearly fully equipped and stationed near Caen. Feuchtinger spent much of his time in Paris, ostensibly overseeing production of materials for his division, as Becker was using the Hotchkiss plant near Paris for his conversion facility. [6]