Robert Forczyk - Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945 - Red Steamroller

• Panzer-Abteilung 51

• Panzer-Abteilung 52

○ Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 911

• II.SS-Panzerkorps (General der Waffen-SS Paul Hausser)

○ 1.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich)

○ 2.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Das Reich (SS-Gruppenführer Walter Krüger)

○ 3.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Totenkopf (SS-Brigadeführer Max Simon)

Armee-Abteilung Kempf (General der Panzertruppe Werner Kempf)

• III Panzerkorps (General der Panzertruppe Hermann Breith)

○ 6. Panzer-Division (Generalmajor Walther von Hünersdorff)

○ 7. Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Hans Freiherr von Funck)

○ 19. Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Gustav Richard Ernst Schmidt) {3}

○ Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 228

○ Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 393

6. Armee (General der Infanterie Karl-Adolf Hollidt)

• 16. Panzergrenadier-Division (Generalleutnant Gerhard Graf von Schwerin)

• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 203

• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 210

• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 243

• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 287

1. Panzerarmee (Generaloberst Eberhard von Mackensen)

• Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 209

• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 232

• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 901

XXIV Panzerkorps (General der Panzertruppe Walther Nehring)

• 5.SS Panzergrenadier Division Wiking (SS-Brigadeführer Herbert Otto Gille)

• 17.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Walter Schilling)

• 23.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Nikolaus von Vormann)

Heeresgruppe A (Generalfeldmarschall Ewald von Kleist) 17.Armee (General der Pioniere Erwin Jaenecke)

• XXXXIX Gebirgs-Korps (General der Gebirgstruppe Rudolf Konrad)

• 13.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Hellmut von der Chevallerie)

• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 191

• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 249

Reinforcements:

• August 1943

○ 22 August: I./SS-Panzer-Regiment 2 [Panther] (SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Weiss) for Das Reich

○ 24 August: I./Pz.Rgt. 15[Panther] (Major Karl von Sivers) for 11. Panzer-Division

○ 31 August: II./Pz.Rgt. 23 [Panther] (Major Fritz Fechner) for 23. Panzer-Division

• September 1943:

○ 20 September: s.Pz.Abt. 506 [Tiger]

• October 1943:

○ 2 October: I./Pz.Rgt. 2 [Panther] (Hauptmann Bollert) for 13. Panzer-Divison

○ 20 October: 24. Panzer-Division (Generalmajor Maximilian Freiherr von Edelsheim) from Italy

○ 25 October: 14. Panzer-Division (Oberst Martin Unrein) from France

• November 1943:

○ 6 November: 25. Panzer-Division from Norway (Generalleutnant Adolf von Schell) {4}

○ 7 November: s.Pz.Abt. 509 [Tiger]

○ 9 November: LSSAH , including I./SS-Panzer Regiment 1 [Panther] (SS-Sturmbannführer Herbert Kuhlmann)

○ 11 November: 1.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Walter Krüger), including I./Pz.Rgt.1 [Panther] (Major Ernst Phillip) arrives from Greece

• December 1943

○ 5 December: I./Pz.Rgt.31 [Panther] (Major Hubertus Feldtkeller), attached to XI Armeekorps.

○ III. SS-Panzerkorps (Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner)

▪ 11.SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division Nordland

▪ 4.SS-Panzergrenadier-Brigade Nederland

• January 1944

○ Panzer-Grenadier-Division Feldherrnhalle from France(Generalleutnant Otto Kohlermann)

• March 1944:

○ 9.SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen (SS-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich)

○ 10.SS Panzer-Division Frundsberg (SS-Gruppenführer Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld)

Soviet

Leningrad Front (General-polkovnik Leonid A. Govorov)

• 5x Tank Brigades (1, 152, 220, 222; 30 G)

• 6x Tank Regiments (98, 260, 261; 31 G, 46 G, 49 G)

• 3x OTB (86, 116, 287)

• 1x SAP (1439)

Volkhov Front (General Kirill A. Meretskov)

• 6x Tank Brigades (16, 29, 122, 124, 185; 7 G)

• 5x Tank Regiments (25; 32 G, 33 G, 35 G, 50 G)

• 6x OTB (107, 500, 501, 502, 503, 507)

• 2x SAP (1433, 1434)

Northwestern Front (General-polkovnik Pavel A. Kurochkin)

• 2x Tank Brigades (60, 81)

• 10x Tank Regiments (27, 32, 37, 38, 65, 226, 227, 239, 249; 3 G)

• 4x OTB (150, 170, 514, 515)

Kalinin Front (General-polkovnik Andrei I. Eremenko)

• 4x Tank Brigades (78, 143, 236; 28 G)

• 2x Mechanized Brigades (46, 47)

• 2x Tank Regiments (105, 221)

• 1x OTB (171)

Western Front (General-polkovnik Vasily D. Sokolovsky)

• 13 Tank Brigades (94, 120, 153, 187, 196, 213, 256; 2 G, 10 G, 23 G, 29 G, 42 G, 43 G)

• 4x Tank Regiments (119, 161, 233, 248)

• 2x OTB (138, 520)

• 3x SAP: (1453, 1536, 1537)

• Under Front Control:

○ 1st Tank Corps (General-major Vasily V. Butkov)

○ 5th Tank Corps (General-major Mikhail G. Sakhno)

Bryansk Front (General-polkovnik Markian M. Popov)

• 1x Tank Brigade (68)

• 9x Tank Regiments (36, 82, 114, 231, 253; 11 G, 12 G, 13 G, 26 G)

Armour Order of Battle, 1 July 1943 245

• 6x SAPs (1444, 1445, 1452, 1535, 1538, 1539)

• Under Front Control:

○ 1st Guards Tank Corps (General-major Mikhail F. Panov)

Central Front (General Konstantin K. Rokossovsky)

• 2nd Tank Army (General-leytenant Aleksei G. Rodin)

○ 3rd Tank Corps (General-major Maksim D. Sinenko)

○ 16th Tank Corps (General-major Vasily E. Grigor’ev)

○ 11th Guards Tank Brigade

• 2x Tank Brigades (129, 150)

• 14x Tank Regiments (40, 43, 45, 58, 84, 193, 229, 237, 240, 251, 259; 27 G, 29 G, 30 G)

• 4x SAP (1442, 1454, 1540, 1541)

• Under Front Control:

○ 9th Tank Corps (General-leytenant Semen I. Bogdanov)

○ 19th Tank Corps (General-major Ivan D. Vasil’ev)

Voronezh Front (General Nikolai F. Vatutin)

• 6th Guards Army (General-leytenant Ivan M. Chistiakov)

○ 96th Tank Brigade

○ 230th and 245th Tank Regiments

○ 1440th SAP

• 7th Guards Army (General-leytenant Mikhail S. Shumilov)

○ 27th Guards, 210th Tank Brigades

○ 148th, 167th and 262nd Tank Regiments

○ 1438th and 1529th SAP

• 1st Tank Army (General-leytenant Mikhail E. Katukov)

○ 3rd Mechanized Corps (General-major Semen M. Krivoshein)

○ 6th Tank Corps (General-major Andrei L. Getman)

○ 31st Tank Corps (General-major Dmitri Kh. Chernienko) {5}

• 38th and 40th Armies

○ 86th, 180th and 192nd Tank Brigades

○ 59th and 60th Tank Regiments

• Under Front Control:

○ 2nd Guards Tank Corps (Polkovnik Aleksei S. Burdeinyi)

○ 5th Guards Tank Corps (General-leytenant Andrei G. Kravchenko)

Southwestern Front (General Rodion Ia. Malinovsky)

• 4x Tank Brigades (11, 115, 173, 179)

• 9x Tank Regiments (52, 141, 212, 224, 243; 5 G, 9 G, 16 G, 17 G

• 1x SAP (1443)

• Under Front Control:

○ 1st Guards Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Ivan N. Russiianov)

○ 2nd Tank Corps (General-major Aleksei F. Popov)

○ 23rd Tank Corps (General-leytenant Efim G. Pushkin) {6}

○ 9th Guards Tank Brigade

○ 10th Guards Tank Regiment

Southern Front (General-polkovnik Fedor I. Tolbukhin)

• 2nd Guards Army (General-leytenant Georgy F. Zakharov)

○ 2nd Guards Mechanized Corps (General-leytenant Karp V. Sviridov)