Panzer Army Africa (redirect from Panzerarmee Afrika)
The Panzerarmee Afrika or referred to as Gruppo Corazzato Africa in Italy was a combined German-Italian field army that fought in the North African campaign...
9 KB (417 words) - 04:11, 8 September 2024
5th Panzer Army (German: 5. Panzerarmee) was the name of two different German armoured formations during World War II. The first of these was formed in...
13 KB (898 words) - 22:10, 17 July 2024
2nd Panzer Army (redirect from 2. Panzerarmee)
Panzer Army (German: 2. Panzerarmee) was a German armoured formation during World War II, formed from the 2nd Panzer Group on October 5, 1941. Panzer Group...
19 KB (1,134 words) - 14:13, 3 May 2024
(Wahlkreis #24, to 1933), Upper Bavaria (#25, to 1936) and Frankfurt/Oder (#5, to 1945). By 1931, Dietrich had been promoted to SS-Gruppenführer. When the...
30 KB (2,954 words) - 20:42, 29 August 2024
February 1945 as General der Panzertruppe and commander-in-chief of 5. Panzerarmee Searle, Alaric (2003). Wehrmacht Generals, West German Society, and...
12 KB (1,177 words) - 23:03, 28 June 2024
Generalleutnant and commander of Kampfgruppe/Stab Heeresgruppe Afrika, stellv. Führer 5.Panzer-Armee Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: Die Generale der...
5 KB (241 words) - 10:33, 13 February 2024
also prompted the subsequent German counter-attack at Arracourt by the 5. Panzerarmee. Cole, Hugh M., The Lorraine Campaign, Washington D.C.: United States...
15 KB (2,249 words) - 22:50, 31 July 2024
May – 11 June against Axis forces of Panzerarmee Afrika commanded by Generaloberst Erwin Rommel. The Panzerarmee captured Tobruk ten days later. The delay...
49 KB (6,307 words) - 18:44, 10 August 2024
Dietrich. The date is taken from the announcement made by the 6. SS-Panzerarmee. The sequential number "150" was assigned by the Association of Knight's...
106 KB (4,902 words) - 13:03, 7 June 2024
of Tobruk in Libya, from 26 May to 21 June 1942. Axis troops of the Panzerarmee Afrika (Generaloberst Erwin Rommel) consisting of German and Italian...
60 KB (7,437 words) - 07:25, 5 September 2024
1,200–1,500 men each. By 5 July, the number of serviceable German tanks fell to around thirty. After a lull, the Panzerarmee planned to attack again,...
96 KB (12,545 words) - 05:29, 4 September 2024
opened his offensive against the Axis forces. In a 13-day battle the Axis Panzerarmee Afrika was crushed and forced to retreat from Egypt and Libya to the...
107 KB (14,572 words) - 07:38, 3 September 2024
The 1st Panzer Army (German: 1. Panzerarmee) was a German tank army that was a large armoured formation of the Wehrmacht during World War II. When originally...
16 KB (1,464 words) - 13:28, 15 July 2024
campaign in Libya during the Second World War. The battle was fought by the Panzerarmee Afrika (Armata Corazzata Africa in Italian), a German–Italian military...
56 KB (7,663 words) - 00:11, 28 August 2024
was the major German component of Panzerarmee Afrika, which was later renamed the Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee and finally renamed Heeresgruppe Afrika...
19 KB (1,855 words) - 15:00, 5 September 2024
695 anti-aircraft guns). Further south, the front was held by the 4th Panzerarmee, which opposed the 1st Ukrainian Front. General Gotthard Heinrici replaced...
19 KB (2,359 words) - 19:56, 13 August 2024
PanzerArmee Afrika, subtitled "Rommel in the Desert, April 1941 - November 1942", is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI)...
7 KB (866 words) - 17:36, 9 September 2024
5th Inf Div 15th Inf Div 11th Armd Div The 3rd Panzer Army (German: 3. Panzerarmee) was a German armoured formation during World War II, formed from the...
17 KB (1,161 words) - 21:01, 17 July 2024
April 1942 as SS-Gruppenführer and Generalmajor of the Waffen-SS with the 5. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Wiking" Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with...
22 KB (2,361 words) - 01:01, 28 August 2024
briefed a few days before Rommel departed. He took overall command of Panzerarmee Afrika (combined German and Italian forces), with Ritter von Thoma replacing...
12 KB (1,325 words) - 14:25, 30 August 2024
War. The battle was fought with the German–Italian Panzer Army Afrika (Panzerarmee Afrika (Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel). The Eighth Army comprised...
34 KB (4,355 words) - 12:57, 6 September 2024
Anglo-Americans landed in Morocco and Algeria during Operation Torch and Panzerarmee Afrika, as it was now called, was threatened with annihilation, as it...
22 KB (2,337 words) - 23:50, 31 July 2024
The 4th Panzer Army (German: 4. Panzerarmee), operating as Panzer Group 4 (Panzergruppe 4) from its formation on 15 February 1941 to 1 January 1942, was...
39 KB (3,893 words) - 23:06, 5 September 2024
23.10.42". Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2021. "Rommel Panzerarmee Afrika #2". Issuu. 23 May 2012. "La Posta...
3 KB (259 words) - 20:39, 5 September 2024
isolated, requiring attempts by the German Armeeabteilung Kempf and 4th Panzerarmee Armies to relieve the garrison which was ordered by Hitler to defend...
13 KB (1,304 words) - 00:21, 2 August 2024
allow the 8th Army a chance to regroup. He strongly argued that the Panzerarmee should advance into Egypt and drive on to Alexandria and the Suez Canal...
262 KB (33,285 words) - 21:33, 11 September 2024
(known as the Deutsch-Italienische Panzerarmee/Armata Corazzata Italo-Tedesca from October 1942) took place from 5 November 1942 to 15 February 1943....
31 KB (3,818 words) - 21:05, 22 August 2024
Dietrich. The date is taken from the announcement made by the 6. SS-Panzerarmee. The sequential number "150" was assigned by the Association of Knight's...
53 KB (2,598 words) - 13:32, 15 July 2024
1942. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1630-5. Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes...
12 KB (1,156 words) - 17:53, 1 August 2024
The platoon was transferred to the Kampfstaffel des Oberbefehlshaber Panzerarmee Afrika (Rommel's personal battle group) on 8 March 1942. Only one vehicle...
4 KB (472 words) - 18:23, 10 December 2022