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1st Panzer Army
1. Panzerarmee
Insignia
Active
16 November 1940 – 8 May 1945
Country
Nazi Germany
Branch
Army (Wehrmacht)
Type
Panzer
Role
Armoured warfare
Size
Army 1 July 1942 (start of Case Blue): 226,688[1] 1 November 1943 (Battle of the Dnieper): 282,175[2] 1 March 1944 (Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive): 211,545[3] 1 May 1944 (after the battle of the Kamenets-Podolsky pocket) 172,541[4]
Engagements
World War II
Battle of France
Yugoslavia
Operation Barbarossa
Brody/Dubno
Battle of Uman
Battle of Kiev (1941)
Battle of Rostov (1941)
2nd Kharkov
Case Blue
Battle of Rostov (1942)
Battle of the Caucasus
3rd Kharkov
Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943)
Izyum-Barvenkovo offensive
Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)
Battle of the Dnieper
Dnieper-Carpathian offensive
Zhitomir-Berdichev offensive
Korsun-Cherkassy pocket
Kamenets-Podolsky pocket
Lvov-Sandomierz offensive
Western Carpathian offensive
Moravia–Ostrava offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders
Ewald von Kleist
Military unit
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 formed on 1 March 1940, the predecessor of the 1st Panzer Army was named Panzer Group Kleist (Panzergruppe Kleist) with Colonel General Ewald von Kleist in command.[5]
^Liedtke, Gregory. Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943. Wolverhampton Military Studies, 2016, p. 228.
^OKH Org.Abt. I Nr. I/5645/43 g.Kdos. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.11.43. NARA T78, R528, F768.
^OKH Organisationsabteilung (I). Nr. I/161628/44 g.Kdos. Notiz. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.3.1944. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (BA-MA) RH 2/1341, fol. 12.
^OKH Organisationsabteilung (I). Nr. I/17246/44 g.Kdos. Notiz. Iststärke des Feldheeres Stand 1.5.1944. Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv (BA-MA) RH 2/1341, fol. 18.
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