Viking Panzers: The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the East in World War II• Classic World War II unit history of the 5th SS Panzer Regiment, part of the 5th SS Panzer Division "Viking" • The unique 5th SS Panzer Division was made up largely of volunteers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands, and Belgium • This regiment served on the Eastern Front from 1942 to the end of the war, including action at Kharkov and Warsaw • Draws heavily from the eyewitness testimonies of the 5th's members • First time in English |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Retreat and Defense between the Manytsch and the Don 126 | 126 |
Chapter 4 Defensive Operations between the Donez and the Dnjepr 167 | 167 |
Chapter 5 In the Pocket Battles between the Dnjepr and the Bug out of the Dnjepr Line and into the Tscherkassy Pocket 223 | 223 |
Chapter 6 Between Brest Litowsk and Warsaw 297 | 297 |
Chapter 7 The First Battle of Warsaw 335 | 335 |
Chapter 8 The Second Battle of Warsaw 358 | 358 |
Chapter 9 Fighting in the Wet Triangle 367 | 367 |
Chapter 10 The Development of the Military Situation along the Danube from August to December 1944 382 | 382 |
Chapter 11 The Final Fighting 416 | 416 |
Appendices 447 | 447 |
Select Bibliography 479 | 479 |
Back Cover | 489 |
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Viking Panzers: The German 5th SS Tank Regiment in the East in World War II Ewald Klapdor No preview available - 2011 |
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1st Battalion 1st Company 2nd Battalion 3rd Company 3rd Ukrainian Front 4th Company advance antitank guns Armee Armee-Korps armored artillery assault guns attack Author’s Note Battalion of Germania bridgehead Caucasus combat command post corps crossing Czeremcha daily logs defensive direction divisional Dnjepr elements encircled enemy forces enemy tanks enemy’s field army field-army group fighting fire flank friendly forces front German Germania Hauptsturmführer headquarters heavy Heeresgruppe Heeresgruppe Süd Hill immediate counterattack Infanterie-Division infantry July Kampfgruppe kilometers kilometers east knocked Kowel line of resistance Malgobek March meters moved Narew night Nordland northwest Obersturmführer operations Panzer III Panzer IV’s Panzer-Armee Panzer-Division Panzer-Korps platoon positions pulled back rail line reconnaissance reported road Rostow Russians sector Serock situation southeast southwest Soviet SS-Division Wiking SS-Hauptsturmführer SS-Obersturmführer SS-Untersturmführer Ssagopschin Stuhlweißenburg Sturmbannführer tank battalion tank regiment terrain Totenkopf Translator’s Note Untersturmführer vehicles village Waffen-SS Westland wounded