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Eastern Front, April 1944. 501st is attached to 4th Panzer Army in May, and 3rd Army in June. [10] On 12 March, the battalion joined the 256th infantry division in a counterattack north of Nipinzy; by the next day, the enemy forces were surrounded and destroyed. By 1 April, spare parts had been delivered and 27 tanks were operational. [10]
The I SS Panzer Corps also included a number of ad hoc vanguard units, including Kampfgruppe Peiper (forming part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), which contained a panzer battalion (72 mixed Panzer IV and Panther tanks) from the 1st SS Panzer Regiment, the 501st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion (45 Tiger Is) and the 3rd SS Panzer Grenadier Battalion. [67]
501st Heavy Panzer Battalion - original unit surrended in Tunisia campaign, reformed and destroyed on Eastern Front; 502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion - redesignated 511th on 5 January 1945; 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion - largely destroyed in Normandy, refitted and deployed on Eastern Front; 504th Heavy Panzer Battalion; 505th Heavy Panzer Battalion
Kampfgruppe Lang had 77 tanks, including twenty Tigers of the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion and motorised infantry from the 10th Panzer Division. The rest of the 10th Panzer Division was to attack once the objectives were achieved and advance westwards, about 25 mi (40 km) south of Medjez. [ 2 ]
The 501st Infantry Regiment, previously the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment and 501st Airborne Infantry Regiment, is an airborne forces regiment of the United States Army with a long history, having served in World War II and the Vietnam War, both as part of the 101st Airborne Division, as well as the War in Afghanistan.
The Ohio University Board of Trustees approved a nursing expansion on the Lancaster campus.
Panzer Korps in particular the 8 Panzer Division helped to contain the breakthrough and limit it to a gap 3-4 kilometers wide. Only because of their massive overwhelming superiority in every respect was the 1st Ukrainian Front able to advance towards the towns of Zolochiv and Sasiv , driving a wedge between XIII Army Corps and the neighboring ...
Schwere Panzer-Abteilung 501; Usage on pl.wikipedia.org 501 Batalion Czołgów Ciężkich; Usage on ru.wikipedia.org 501-й тяжёлый танковый батальон; Usage on tr.wikipedia.org 501. Ağır Panzer Taburu; Usage on uk.wikipedia.org 501-й важкий танковий батальйон (Третій Рейх)