Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
Hi
I've seen sometimes there were announcements that Divisions had achieved a particular number fo tank kills such as 500,1000 etc etc.
Does anyone have a list of divisional totals?
Thanks/Danke
I've seen sometimes there were announcements that Divisions had achieved a particular number fo tank kills such as 500,1000 etc etc.
Does anyone have a list of divisional totals?
Thanks/Danke
Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
I think 3,000 was the upper limit.
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I would check numbers for 1,2,3,7,21 Pz Div 1 and 2 SS Pz. Div and Großdeutchland.
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Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
Das Reich in autumn 1943 claimed 2000 tank kills. No comments:
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Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
Yeah well known pic of Adolf Peichl. Thank Guys!! Appreciated.
Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
I did an estimate earlier this year and I thought it was no.1 was GD with their biggest action being Targos Frumos (they claimed 400 kills IIRC?) . Then they became a Panzerkorps and had spin off divisions (FGD, FBB, Langemark, Brandenburg) which may have put to the total up to 4,000.Hauptmann Holston wrote:I would check numbers for 1,2,3,7,21 Pz Div 1 and 2 SS Pz. Div and Großdeutchland.
With the SS divisions, it was probably 2.SS DR or 1.SSLAH. I'm thinking at the 3,000 range. 3.SS also had a lot.
Then there are others like 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 23, 24 that had a lot.
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Totenkopf?
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Are you surprised? The effect from the result of the fourth battle of Kharkov you can't imagine how many loss had the 1 tank army and 4 and 5 guard tank corps. I think Tk also can be in the first row!Jan-Hendrik wrote:Totenkopf?
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Thanks for replies guys!!
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Does anyone know how many the Herman Goering fallschirmjager panzer division claimed to have amassed
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Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
What was the total for the Totenkopf?
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Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
23rd Panzer Division had 2672 kills
Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
9. Pz, from Mitchell, Panzer Legions
"From November 16 to December 14, in heavy fighting, it prevented the U.S.
1st Army from breaking through the Rhine plain; during the fighting around Geilenkirchen,
the 9th Panzer destroyed its 2,325th enemy tank."
"From November 16 to December 14, in heavy fighting, it prevented the U.S.
1st Army from breaking through the Rhine plain; during the fighting around Geilenkirchen,
the 9th Panzer destroyed its 2,325th enemy tank."
Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
Are those corrected numbers? They were usually highly exaggerated.
Re: Which Division claimed the most Tank Kills by wars end?
kill claims from their unit records