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46.ID was moved from Slovakia to the Gran bridgehead with the purpose to participate in the upcoming attack. Therefore it was CHOSEN to take part in the operation because of its good condition. BTW, the condition of the division during the Nov 44 - Mar 45 time frame could be traced on a weekly basis...

However I would suggest that at this stage of the war the division would have fought as Kampfgruppen made up of the various remnants. This is stupid. :down: Do you seriously believe that the German command would chose a division "made up of the various remnants" to play a leading part in ...

1.) number of infantry battalions and their strength
2.) Panzers und Paks
a. Pak
b. Panzers?
c. StuG?
d. ?
3.) Artillery
a. Light artillery
b. Heavy artillery
4.) Beweglichkeit (Mobility)
a. Horse-drawn
b. Motorized (or vice versa)
5.) Combat worth = I, II, III or IV

I highly recommend you to check out these two books of Earl Ziemke: - Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East (co-authored with Magda Bauer) - Stalingrad to Berlin Ziemke used a plenty of archival material there, so you can compare for yourself the facts provided by him with the "testimonies...

I declare beforehand that my sources about this battle are very little, but according to Fieldmarshall Friessner's "Verrantene Siege", the 3., 6. and 8. PDs (57. PK) were transferred on 18.12.1944 through the Komaron bridge on the northern bank of the Danube and till beginning of January ...

detached: staff with Führungsstaffel (sorry i don't know the english equivalent) - I./PzGren Reg - 2 companies of the PzAbt - 2. and 3./I./Art Reg - 2.,3./PzGren Reg Can you explain this? Bear in mind this is an official document from HL Budapest. Anyways, the same detached units are repeated at th...

An update on my previous post: (from the history of the Feldherrnhalle division) Even before the siege was completely closed, the command had decided to group together the remnants of the tank regiments from the both divisions and self-propelled Hummel cannon from their artillery regiments into a ra...

(1) According to Ungváry, Pape left Budapest on the 23/12. This is not in conflict with your KTB Süd documents 21/12 s8, 21/12 s15 as they never mention anything about Pape actually taking command at the sector on 21/12. I hope that the KTB HGr Sued quoted in my previous post, makes it clear that o...

Perhaps this one can help you:

http://www.sturmpanzer.com/Default.aspx ... em=2&sec=1

Hi Kamen, KG Pape was formed as PzKG FHH on 23/12/45 when elements of the PzGren Div FHH were pulled out from Budapest to counter the Russian forces advancing to capture the city from the west. Generalmajor Pape assembled the Führungsstaffel, I./PzGren Reg FHH, 2 companies of the PzAbt FHH, 2.,3. b...

24.12.1944 - By 16:00 (Moscow time), after eight hours of intense combat, 18 Tank Corps captured Bicske; all four brigades were involved. The following losses were inflicted to the enemy: destroyed: 39 tanks, 20 guns, 3 APCs, 21 machineguns, 188 motor vehicles, 4 aircraft, 548 soldiers and officers...

The Valentines belonged to a cavalry corps. Usually they were allocated in the tank regiments of the cavalry divisions, which were permanently understrentgh. It is hard to believe that so many of them were destroyed, because the regiments were small in size (ca. 20 tanks). It is hard to believe that...

It is very difficult to tell. I'm sure that even the German command wasn't sure which units were engaged. The chaos that followed the Soviet breakthrough of the Margit line was complete and only an approximate picture of the Axis side could be established. You can put here the elements of the Hung A...

Ruskii arhiv: Velikaya Otechestvennaya: Osvobojdenie Pribaltiki. Dokumenty i materialy. T. 15 (4 - 10); Moskva, TERRA - Knijnyi klub, 2001, ISBN 5-275-00409-5

Hi Donald, a brief description of the clash between 7.PzD and 2nd Shock Army could be found in the Fedyuninsky's memories: http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/fedyuninsky/10.html A wonderful source for additional information on the battles in that region is volume 15 – 4 (10) of the Zolotarev's docu...