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The 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion (German: "schwere Panzerabteilung 501"; abbreviated: "s PzAbt 501") was a German heavy Panzer Abteilung (an independent battalion-sized unit) equipped with heavy tanks. The battalion was the second unit to receive and use the Tiger I heavy tank, changing to Tiger IIs in mid-1944.
Peiper consequently made Kling leader of the 2nd Battalion, [4] and nominated him for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. [3] Kling received the award on 23 February 1944. [5] Kling was heavily wounded during Operation Overlord. [6] On 19 March 1945, he was appointed commander of the 501st Heavy SS Panzer Battalion. [7]
1st SS Flak Battalion 1st SS Signals Battalion 501st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion (attached) 84th Luftwaffe Flak Battalion (attached) 3rd Fallschirmjäger Division ‡ Generalmajor Walther Wadehn 5th, 8th, and 9th Parachute Infantry Regiments 3rd Artillery Regiment 3rd Recon Battalion 3rd Antitank Battalion 3rd Engineer Battalion 3rd Signals battalion
The 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion was heavily engaged during the Normandy campaign, and lost virtually all its equipment in the retreat across France in August 1944. The remains of the unit were ordered to rest and completely refit with the new Tiger IIs. On 22 September 1944, it was redesignated as the 501st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion. [4]
The 501st was reconstituted on 1 August 1946 at Fort Benning, GA, as the 501st Parachute Infantry Battalion but was inactivated there on 23 November 1948. [5] Between 1951 and 1956 the 501st served with the 101st as a Regular Army non-Airborne training unit on two occasions, once at Camp Breckinridge, KY., and once at Fort Jackson, SC.
The 6th Panzer Army designated the LSSAH as the mobile-strike force, under the command of SS-Oberführer Wilhelm Mohnke. Four combined-arms battle groups composed the 6th Panzer Division; Peiper commanded Kampfgruppe Peiper, the best-equipped battle group, which included the 501st Heavy Panzer Battalion equipped with seventy-ton Tiger II tanks.
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 ...
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