103rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion information

103rd Heavy SS Panzer Battalion (German: "schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 103) was a German heavy tank battalion of the Waffen-SS during World War II. The unit...

as SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 502 (schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 502), part of II SS Panzer Corps 103rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion renamed in 1944, as SS Heavy...

Tiger II was issued to heavy tank battalions of the Army and the Waffen-SS. It was first used in combat by 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion during the Allied invasion...

Oberstgruppenführer der Waffen SS Josef "Sepp" Dietrich Army-level units 683rd Heavy Antitank Battalion 217th Assault Panzer Battalion 394th, 667th, and 902nd...

in the Panzer Brigade). Additionally, a 1939 Panzer Division was supposed to be equipped with a Rifle Brigade (see above), a motorcycle battalion, a reconnaissance...

States military 503rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion or 103rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion, originally formed as the II.Battalion, 11 SS Panzer Regiment 503 (number)...

decided to send the 1st Panzer Division to the Peloponnese and even considered sending to Italy his three elite Waffen-SS armored divisions, then deployed...

lost to the 2nd Panzer Group in early August. The German forces initially located in the salient were the 10th Panzer Division, Waffen-SS Division Das Reich...

Tank Battalion, supported by some anti-tank guns of the 630th Tank Destroyer Battalion, were no match for two platoons of Panzer IVs from Panzer-Regiment...

and 103rd Rifle Divisions, was moved to a line from Krasnopavlovka to the Bereka to conduct a counterattack against the left flank of 1st Panzer Army...

difficult terrain. By nightfall the panzers found themselves isolated from the 3rd Motorized Division to its left and the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division lagging in...

Elements of the division retreated west to Ebenrode, where the reserve 103rd Panzer Brigade launched a counterattack that halted the Soviet advance, which...

soon came under heavy Nebelwerfer fire and bombing attacks. This effort made little progress. At around 1500 the II Battalion of the 3rd SS Panzergrenadier...

difficult terrain. By nightfall the panzers found themselves isolated from the 3rd Motorized Division to its left and the 3rd SS Totenkopf Division lagging in...

one battalion of the 294th Artillery Regiment acting as rearguard. These were attacked by advance elements of the 111th Infantry and 11th Panzer Divisions...

further overextended mobile formations were destroyed by XXXXVIII Panzer Corps and the SS Panzer Corps. The STAVKA was slow to acknowledge the situation, expecting...

could be brought to the battlefront to stem the tide of the advancing SS Panzers). The 319th then fought with other 82nd units through the Huertgen Forest...

suffering heavy losses to the 11th Panzer Division in the Andreyevka area. The corps was forced to retreat northwards and was attacked by SS Division Wiking...

Artillery Regiment) 103rd Guards Antitank Battalion 99th Guards Reconnaissance Company 109th Guards Sapper Battalion 140th Guards Signal Battalion (later 19th...

German counteroffensive at Kharkov was unfolding. As elements of the SS Panzer Corps entered Belgorod on March 18 forces of the Soviet 69th Army were...