Robert Forczyk: Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt

Mary R. Habeck, Storm of Steel: The Development of Armour Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919–1939 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003).

Renamed GABTU in 1940.

Wolfgang Schneider, Panzer Tactics: German Small-Unit Armor Tactics in World War II (Mechanichsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005), p. 293.

Arthur Wollschlaeger, ‘The Raid on Orel’, in Knights Cross Panzers (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010), p. 127.

Artem Drabkin & Oleg Sheremet, T-34 in Action (Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Ltd, 2006), pp. 61–2.

To be renamed panzer armies between October 1941 and January 1942.

Some German armoured formations were already referring to themselves as Panzerkorps in 1941, but the change from Armeekorps (mot.) was not standardized until June 1942.

Taktische Gliederung des Regiments [Tactical Organization of the Regiment], Panzer-Regiment 18, 18.Panzer-Division, Ia, Anlage z. KTB, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-315, Roll 708, Frame 258.

Panzergruppe 4, O.Qu., Anlagenband 3 z-KTB, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-313, Roll 336, Frame 8618121.

Ibid.

A cubic meter of fuel (cbm or m 3), was equivalent to 5,000 liters and weighed 739kg.

Hugh Trevor-Roper (ed.), Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945 (London: Birlinn Ltd, 2004), p. 138.

Charles C. Sharp, The Deadly Beginning: Soviet Tank, Mechanized, Motorized Divisions and Tank Brigades of 1940–1942 , Soviet Order of Battle World War II, Volume 1 (George F. Nafziger, 1995), pp. 10–14.

Excluding tankettes and obsolete foreign-built tanks.

Mechanized Corps of the Red Army website, http://mechcorps.rkka.ru/files/mechcorps/pages/12_meh.htm.

The same Andrey Vlasov who was captured in July 1942 and turned traitor, collaborating with the Germans to form the anti-Communist Russian Liberation Army (ROA).

Artem Drabkin and Oleg Sheremet, T-34 in Action (Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Books, Ltd, 2006), p. 34.

David Glantz, Stumbling Colossus (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998), pp. 176–8.

Glantz, Stumbling Colossus , p. 166.

David Glantz, The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1993), pp. 103.

David Glantz, The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1993), pp. 83–5.

Werner Haupt, Die 8.Panzer-Division im 2.Weltkrieg (Eggolsheim: Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1987), pp. 137–40.

Harold S. Orenstein (ed.), ‘Combat Documents of the Soviet Northwestern Front, 21 June–1 July 1941’, The Journal of Soviet Military Studies , Vol. 5, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 267–99.

Erhard Raus, Panzer Operations (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003), pp. 14–34.

Werner Haupt, Die 8.Panzer-Division im 2.Weltkrieg (Eggolsheim: Podzun-Pallas Verlag, 1987), p. 153.

Generalmajor Horst Ohrloff, ‘XXXIX Motorized Corps Operations’ in David M. Glantz (ed.), The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997), pp. 167–83.

la, Kriegstagebuch 1 and 2, May 25–13 July 1941, XXIV Armeekorps (mot.), NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-314, Roll 715.

Korpsbefehl Nr. 1 für den Angriff, XXXXVII Armeekorps (mot.), NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-314, Roll 1097, frame 299.

Veterans of the 3rd Panzer Division, Armored Bear: The German 3rd Panzer Division in World War II, Volume I (Mechanichsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2012), pp. 147–9.

la, Kriegstagebuch Nr. 7. Jun 20–Jul 24, 1941, 8. Jäger-Division, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-315, Roll 458.

Bericht über Leistungen und Erfolge der II./Flakregiment 4 bei der 256. Division im der Zeit vom 22–27.6.41 , NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-314, Roll 653, frames 221–31.

256. Infanterie-Division KTB, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-315, Roll 1796.

Horst Slesina, Soldaten gegen Tod und Teufel (Giddings, TX: Preuss Publishing, 2003), pp. 28–9.

Ia, Kriegstagebuch Nr. 7. June 20–July 24, 1941, 8. Jäger-Division, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-315, Roll 458.

Klaus Gerbet (ed.), Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock: The War Diary 1939–1945 (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1996), p. 228.

David Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany’ Defeat in the East (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 170–86.

Karlheinz Münch, The Combat History of German Heavy Anti-tank Unit 653 in World War II (Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005), p. 12.

Ia KTB, 11. Panzer-Division, NAM (National Archives Microfilm), series T-315, Roll 2320.

Gustav Schrodek, Ihr Glaube galt dem Vaterland: Geschichte des Panzer-Regiments 15 (Munich: Schild-Verlag, 1976), pp. 124–9.

Gustav W. Schrodek, Die 11. Panzer-Division: Gespenster-Division 1940–1945 (Eggolsheim: Dörfler Verlag GmbH, 2004), p. 132.

Brigadier General Edel Lingenthal, ‘11th Panzer Division Operations’ in David M. Glantz (ed.), The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997), pp. 336.

Victor J. Kamenir, The Bloody Triangle: The Defeat of Soviet Armour in the Ukraine, June 1941 (Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2008), pp. 142–4.

Brigadier General Edel Lingenthal, ‘11th Panzer Division Operations’ in David M. Glantz (ed.), The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997), p. 336.

Generalleutnant Albert Praun et al., German Radio Intelligence (Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1953).

Friedrich von Hake, Der Schicksalsweg der 13. Panzer-Division 1939–1945 [The Destiny of the 13th Panzer-Division] (Eggolsheim, Germany: Dorfler im Nebel Verlag, 2006), p. 54.

Lieutenant General H. J. von Hoffgarten, ‘11th Panzer Division Operations’ in David M. Glantz (ed.), The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, 22 June–August 1941 (Portland, OR: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1997), p. 327.