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Text by MARTIN WINDROW, Color plates by MICHAEL ROFFE. YEAR 1972
THE PANZER DIVISIONS

The Panzer Divisions
Introduction
The Cardboard Chariots
Lightning War: September 1939 - November 1941
African Sideshow
The Decline
The Divisions
1. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1935: Weimar)
2. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1933: Würzburg)
3. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1935: Berlin)
4. PANZER DIVISION (formed 1938: Würzburg)
5. PANZER DIVISION (formed November 1938: Oppeln)
6. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1939: Wuppertal: from 1. Light Division)
7. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1939: from 2. Light Division)
8. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1939: from 3. Light Division)
9. PANZER DIVISION (formed January 1940: from 4. Light Division)
10. PANZER DIVISION (formed April 1939: Prague)
11. PANZER DIVISION (formed August 1940: from 11. Rifle Brigade)
12. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1940: from 2. Infanterie Division (Mot.))
13. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1940: from 13. Infanterie Division (Mot.))
14. PANZER DIVISION (formed August 1940: from 4. Infanterie Division)
15. PANZER DIVISION (formed August 1940: from 33. Infanterie Division)
16. PANZER DIVISION (formed August 1940)
17. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1940)
18. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1940)
19. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1940)
20. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1940)
21. PANZER DIVISION (formed February 1941: from 5. Light Motorized Division, plus Panzer Regt. 5 and other cadres from 3. Panzer Division)
22. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1941: France)
23. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1941: France)
24. PANZER DIVISION (formed February 1942: from 1. Kavallerie Division)
25. PANZER DIVISION (formed February 1942: from troops of occupation forces in Norway)
26. PANZER DIVISION (formed October 1942: Brittany, from 23. Infanterie Division)
27. PANZER DIVISION
116. PANZER DIVISION (formed France: April 1944, from 16. Panzergrenadier Division)
130. PANZER-LEHR-DIVISION (formed winter 1943/4)
DIVISION 'Grossdeutschland'
MAIN COMBAT UNITS IN 1944
FÜHRER-BEGLEIT-DIVISION
FÜHRER-GRENADIER-DIVISION
PANZER DIVISION 'KURMARK'
OTHER ARMOURED FORMATIONS
The Plates
A1 Unteroffizier, Panzer truppen, parade dress
A2 Oberleutnant, Panzertruppen, service dress
A3 Leutnant, Panzertruppen, vehicle parade uniform, 1939
B1 Unterfeldwebel, Panzertruppen, winter 1939
B2 Gefreiter, Panzer-Pioniere, 1940
B3 Major, Panzertruppen, vehicle uniform, 1941
C1 Panzer-Funker, campaign dress, 1941
C2 Hauptmann, 24. Panzer Division, 1943
C3 Oberfeldwebel ('Spiess'), Sturmartillerie, 1943
D1 Leutnant, Panzertruppen, winter 1943/4
D2 Panzer Wärte 1, 1944
D3 Obergefreiter, Panzerjäger, 116. Panzer Division, 1944
E1 General der Panzertruppen, 1943
E2 Kraftradfahrer, Aufklärungstruppen
E3 Zeugmeister Unterfeldwebel, Panzergrenadier, 1942
F1 Gefreiter, Panzergrenadier, 1940
F2 Unterojffizier, Panzergrenadier, summer 1943
F3 Leutnant, Panzergrenadier Regt. 'Grossdeutschland', 1944
G1 Oberleutnant, Panzertruppen, D.A.K., 1942
G2 Obergefreiter, Panzergrenadier, D.A.K., 1942
G3 Wachtmeister, Aufklärungs Abteilung, D.A.K., 1941
H1 Unterfeldwebel, Feldgendarmerie, summer 1944
H2 Generalmajor, Panzertruppen, field service dress, 1944
H3 Panzergrenadier, 1945 s