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An SS Panzer Division (German: SS-Panzerdivision, short: SS-PzDiv) was a Waffen-SS formation during World War II. The table below shows the order of battle to which an SS panzer division aspired. [1]
Panzer divisions were the key element of German success in the blitzkrieg operations of the early years of World War II. Later the Waffen-SS formed its own panzer divisions, and the Luftwaffe fielded an elite panzer division: the Hermann Göring Division.
The Nafziger Collection of Orders of Battle: Title: German 7th Panzer Division, 10 May 1940. Alternative Title: 940GXPG: Author: Nafziger, George F. Abstract: The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files.
The Order of Battle for Das Reich as of June 1944. The following Order of Battle shows Das Reich 2nd SS-Panzer Division as of early 1944. It is worth noting that SS-Divisions were typically much larger than normal German army units, usually about twice the size in terms of manpower.
The German Army's first three panzer divisions were activated in 1935 and at the beginning of the war (September 1939) there were five of them in the order of battle, along with four light mechanized divisions and two provisional panzer formations whose units later were used to form another division.
This is the complete order of battle of Allied and German forces involved during Operation Market Garden. Allied forces. US General Dwight D. Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) and in that capacity was ultimately responsible for the planning and execution of the whole operation.
In October 1935, the Wehrmacht organized its first three Panzer Divisions: the 1st, under General Maximilian Freiherr von Weichs; 2nd (Guderian); and 3rd (General Ernst Fessmann). True to the German belief in combined arms, each division paired a Panzer brigade with a motorized infantry brigade.
