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LXXXV Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
The LXXXV Army Corps (german: LXXXV. Armeekorps) was an army corps of the German Wehrmacht during World War II. The corps existed between 1944 and 1945 and had been preceded by a formation known as Group Knieß (german: Gruppe Knieß, link=no) between 1943 and 1944. History Group Knieß, also known as General Command Knieß, was formed in October 1943 in southern France. The formations was named after its initial commander, Baptist Knieß. Under the supervision of the 19th Army, Group Knieß remained on defensive duty in France until the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. On 10 July 1944, Corps Kniess was upgraded to become the LXXXV Army Corps. The LXXXV Army Corps remained under the supervision of the 19th Army until December 1944, when the corps was transferred to the 7th Army in the Ardennes. After a stay in the Saar Palatinate region between February and March 1945 under the 1st Army, the LXXXV was transferred back to the 7th Army in Hesse and Thuringia in April. At the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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244th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 244th Infantry Division was a division of the German Army in World War II. In 1944, the division was in southern France, and fought against the Western Allies in Operation Dragoon until August 28, when it surrendered at Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc .... Order of Battle 1944 *932nd Grenadier Regiment (four battalions) *933rd Grenadier Regiment (three battalions) *234th Grenadier Regiment (three battalions) *244th Artillery Regiment (three battalions) *244th Panzerjäger Battalion *244th Reconnaissance Battalion *244th Pioneer Battalion *244th Signals Battalion *244th Division Support Units References {{DEFAULTSORT:244th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) Infantry divisions of Germany during World War II Military units and formations established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
719th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 719th Infantry Division (german: 719. Infanterie Division) was a German Army division of World War II. It was founded in early May 1941 and spent most of World War II stationed in the Netherlands and Antwerp until the Allied invasion of Normandy. The 719th fought in several defensive battles until being destroyed in April 1945. History The Division was formed on 3 May 1941 as part of the fifteenth ''Aufstellungswelle''. In an order dated 13 April 1941, each military district had been required to raise two regiment for a total of thirty. The 719th Division consisted of the two regiments raised in Wehrkreis III (Berlin). These were the Infantry Regiments 723 and 743. Like the other divisions of the fifteenth wave, the 719th division consisted of only two rather than three infantry regiments. The 719th Division was transferred to occupation activity in the Netherlands. Until July 1942 the division was part of the Command of the German Troops in the Netherlands. In July 1942 it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
347th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 347th Infantry Division (german: 347. Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Army (Wehrmacht), German Army during the Second World War, active from 1942 to 1945. Initially based in the Netherlands, it saw active service on the Western Front (WWII), Western Front and was redesignated as a ''Volksgrenadier'' division in May 1945. Operational history The 347th Infantry Division was formed in September 1942 as a static division of two regiments of fortress infantry. Under the command of ''Generalleutnant'' Friedrich Bayer, the following month it was sent to the Netherlands to the coastline near Amsterdam and its original two regiments later each received an infantry battalion of Wehrmacht foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteer troops from Turkestan and the Caucasus. It remained here for several months until after the Invasion of Normandy. Now commanded by ''Generalleutnant'' Wolf-Günther Trierenberg, Wolf Trierenberg, the division was then transferre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
352nd Infantry Division
The 352nd Infantry Division (''352. Infanterie-Division'') was an infantry division of the German Army during World War II. Deployed on the Western Front, the division defended Omaha Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944. History Formation and strengths The 352nd Infantry Division was formed in occupied France in early November 1943; this followed the German High Command order issued in September that year to raise ten new infantry divisions to replace losses on the Eastern Front. These new divisions were to be combat ready by May 1944. The 352nd was placed under the command of ''Generalleutnant is the Germanic variant of lieutenant general, used in some German speaking countries. Austria Generalleutnant is the second highest general officer rank in the Austrian Armed Forces (''Bundesheer''), roughly equivalent to the NATO rank of O ...'' Dietrich Kraiss. Once up to strength and trained, the 352nd was expected to transfer to the Eastern Front, however there was no clear timetab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
79th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 79th Infantry Division ''(79. Infanterie-Division)'' was an infantry division of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II. Operational history The 79th Infantry Division began mobilization on March 1, 1939, as a part of the second German "wave" system of mobilization. The "wave" was the German designation for groups of infantry divisions raised at approximately the same time, with approximately the same type of organization, equipment, personnel and training. Raised from Rheinlanders in the German Military District ''(Wehrkreis)'' XII, and headquartered in Wiesbaden, the home station of the 79th was Koblenz. It was designated as a Division on August 26, 1939. Assigned to the French-German border in the Saar region, the 79th trained and worked on the West Wall. The Division saw action against the French on the Saar Front on May 10, 1940, when it was part of the invasion forces. In June, the division participated in attacks on the Maginot Line and the capture of Epinal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich-August Schack
Friedrich August Schack (27 March 1892 – 24 July 1968) was a German general during World War II. He is best known for his pyrrhic defense of Caen after the allied invasion, September 1944, and for his brief leadership of the LXXXI Army Corps defending Aachen and the Siegfried Line. Career Schack enlisted in the army, 6 August 1914 and fought in World War I. After the war he was retained in the Reichsheer where he served in junior officer roles. In 1934, Schack was appointed tactics teacher in the war college in Dresden. In 1937, he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. Schack took part in the invasion of Poland and Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. On 1 October 1942 he became commander of the war College in Potsdam. On 7 May 1943 he became commander of the 216th Infantry-Division. On 1 July 1943 Schack was promoted to major general and commander of the 216th Infantry division. Schack led his division in bloody combat in Orel, July 1943, during the Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
189th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 189th Infantry Division was a reserve division of the German Army in World War II. Operational history *September 26, 1942: Formation of the 189. Reserve-Division *December 6, 1942: The 189. Reserve-Division is renamed 189. Infanterie-Division (B) *May 15, 1943: The 189. Reserve-Division is reformed in France from Division Nr. 189. In 1944, it fought against the Allied landings in Operation Dragoon in the South of France and suffered heavy losses. *October 8, 1944: The 189. Infanterie-Division was reformed in France from the 189. Reserve-Division and the 242. Infanterie-Division. *February 1945: The 189. Infantry-Division is destroyed in the Colmar Pocket. *March 1945: The 189. Infantry-Division was reformed again and fought in southern Germany until the end of the war. Order of battle ;1944 *15th Reserve Grenadier Regiment (two battalions) *28th Reserve Grenadier Regiment (three battalions) *28th Reserve Artillery Battalion *9th Reserve Pioneer Battalion *1089th Administrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
159th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 159th Infantry Division (german: 159. Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Heer during World War II. The unit, at times designated Commander of Reserve Troops IX (german: Kommandeur der Ersatztruppen IX, link=no), 159th Division (german: 159. Division, link=no), Division No. 159 (german: Division Nr. 159, link=no), and 159th Reserve Division (german: 159. Reserve-Division, link=no), was active between 1939 and 1945. History Commander of Reserve Troops IX The Commander of Reserve Troops IX was formed in Kassel as part of German general mobilization on 26 August 1939. Its initial purpose was to form a command staff for reserve units in the ninth ''Wehrkreis'' (military district). This military district was headquartered in Kassel and included most of Hesse as well as parts of Thuringia. 159th Division The 159th Division was formed as a result of the redesignation of the Commander of Reserve Troops IX on 9 November 1939. Division No. 159 The 159 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
11th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
The 11th Panzer Division ( en, 11th Tank Division) was an armoured division in the German Army (1935–1945), German Army during World War II, established in 1940. The division saw action on the Eastern Front (World War II), Eastern and Western Front (WWII), Western Fronts during the Second World War. The 11th Panzer Division did not participate in the war until the invasion of Yugoslavia. It fought in the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944 and, in the last year of the war, in southern France and Germany. The formation's emblem was a ghost. History The 11th Panzer Division was formed on 1 August 1940 from the 11th ''Schützen-Brigade'' and the ''Panzer Regiment 15'' removed from the 5th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), 5th Panzer Division and elements of the 231st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 231st Infantry Division, 311th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 311th Infantry Division and 209th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht), 209th Infantry Division. Most of its members were from Silesia (Wehr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
198th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 198th Infantry Division (german: 198. Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division of the German Heer during World War II. History Homefront, 1939 – 1940 The 198th Infantry Division was formed in the Prague-Plzeň area in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia on 1 December 1939. Its initial personnel consisted of replacement formations staffed by recruits from Wehrkreis V. The two initial regiments of the 198th Infantry Division were the Infantry Regiments 305 and 308, with the former being assembled using personnel of the Infantry Replacement Regiments 5, 25, and 35, all part of the 155th Division, whereas the latter was assembled with manpower from the Infantry Replacement Regiments 78, 215, and 260, all part of the 165th Reserve Division. Additionally, the 198th Infantry Regiment was strengthened by the Light Artillery Detachment 235. On 17 January 1940, the division was transformed into a full infantry division after the addition of the Landwehr Infantry Regim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
