Careful placement of artillery, armor, and infantry at the precise point of an intended breakthrough was his hallmark. Trufanov’s 51st Army was a different matter. Maj. Gen. V.T. Rations were cut repeatedly, and so desperate were they that they were forced to consume even the horses that they had brought with them. Nevertheless, Hitler was determined to achieve his goal. 18. See more ideas about Wwii, World war ii, World war. As November approached, German commanders in the 6th Army were facing shortages in both men and materiel. General Hans-Georg Leyser’s 29th Panzergrenadier Division, nicknamed the Falcon Division, was ordered to hit the flank of Tanaschishin’s 13th Mechanized Corps. Frustrated, Christyakov ordered another round of shelling. Generalleutnant Rudolf Freiherr von Waldenfels (18 Jan 1945 - 08 May 1945), Poland & Germany (Oct 1939 - May 1940) France (May 1940 - July 1940) East Prussia (July 1940 - June 1941) Eastern front, northern sector (June 1941 - May 1942) France (May 1942 - Dec 1942) Eastern front, southern sector (Dec 1942 - Mar 1944) Eastern front, central sector (Mar 1944 - Dec 1944) Hungary (Dec 1944 - Mar 1945) Austria (Mar 1945 - May 1945), 44 Officers229 NCO962 Soldiers8 Operational tanks, Holders of the Close Combat Clasp in Gold (1)- Richter, Franz 20.08.1944 Obergefreiter MG-Schütze i. d. 1./Pz.Gren.Rgt. 3. Hungry men were not good fighters. From there in the afternoon of December 13 its 11th Panzer Regiment captured the hamlet of Verkhne-Kumsky, where a major and complex tank battle will develop for five days and nigths, to ultimately decide the fate of the whole operation to join with 6th Army encircled at Stalingrad, and therefore a good deal of the war…, A Pamzer 3 (Fl) Ausf. Oktober 1939 aus der 1. leichten Division gebildet. On the western heights, Luftwaffe 88mm field guns opened fire and destroyed several Russian T-34 tanks. 1/57Holders of the Honor Roll Clasp of the Heer (28)Holders of the Knight's Cross (50, including one unofficial/unconfirmed), Panzer-Regiment 11Panzer-Abteilung 65Schützen-Brigade 6Schützen-Regiment 4Kradschützen-Bataillon 6Artillerie-Regiment 76Aufklärungs-Abteilung 57Panzerjäger-Abteilung 41Pionier-Bataillon 57Nachrichten-Abteilung 82Versorgungstruppen 57, HQ- Divisional Staff- 57. On November 20, the second stage of Uranus began as Eremenko’s southern anvil began moving to meet the northern hammer. He had the plans for Blau, and he did nothing. Also, one of its panzergrenadier regiments had been detached from the division and moved to another sector of the front. It later took part in the fighting at Kharkov and Kursk, before suffering heavy losses during the retreat through the Ukraine. Falling back to the Austrian border by mid-March 1945, the division was tasked with defending Vienna and guarding the last bridge across the Danube - essential for the German divisions retreating out of Hungary. In effect, it gave him the opportunity to start solidifying his inner ring around the city while concentrating on closing the outer ring. In the predawn hours, an assault unit captured a newly constructed bridge across the river at Berezovski near the primary objective of Kalach.