Company Officer's Handbook Of The German Army - Command and ...
Company Officer's Handbook Of The German Army - Command and ...
Company Officer's Handbook Of The German Army - Command and ...
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72 COMPANY OFFICER'S HANDBOOK<br />
Regrouping will proceed in the following manner:<br />
1st <strong>Company</strong>, 903, will be sent forward by Division to Combat Team Ohring<br />
by midday 16 July. When it arrives, the company of Oria already under comm<strong>and</strong><br />
2 will be sent off (on 16 July) to Combat Team Hahm. When this company<br />
arrives at Combat Team Hahm, Combat Teams Fiihrmann <strong>and</strong> Hartmann<br />
will be dissolved. <strong>The</strong> company of 923d still with Combat Team Hahm will be<br />
sent off to Combat Team Ohrir'g. Machine-gun company of Oria Battalion<br />
will be sent up to Combat Team Hahm by Division. This regrouping must be<br />
accelerated so that the units may be collected under their comm<strong>and</strong>ing officers<br />
as formed bodies as soon as possible.<br />
Ilermann GCiring Panzer Engineer Battalion will be released by Combat Team<br />
Ohring <strong>and</strong> collected as division reserve in the area Adrtno-Centuripe. Assembly<br />
must be completed by early 17 July. <strong>The</strong> comm<strong>and</strong>ing officer of the panzer engineer<br />
battalion will act as engineer officer of the division from 17 July.<br />
One battery of the antiarcraft battalion designated for special employment will<br />
be put under comm<strong>and</strong> of each of the Combat Teams Ohring, Hahm, <strong>and</strong> Rebholz<br />
to assist in ground <strong>and</strong> antiaircraft defense in the forward area, <strong>and</strong> for antiaircraft<br />
defense of the tanks. <strong>The</strong>ir employment as antiaircaft on rear communications<br />
is forbidden.<br />
<strong>The</strong> composition of the combat teams shown in figure 59<br />
began to take shape before 19 July. It was on this date that Headquarters,<br />
Hermann Goring Tank Regiment, formed Combat Team<br />
Preuss, which consisted of a grouping of Combat Teams Kluge <strong>and</strong><br />
Rebholz under one comm<strong>and</strong>er (see fig. 59). An order dated 19<br />
July indicated that the 1st Battalion, Hermann G6ring Tank Regiment,<br />
was already in division reserve; the Hermann Goring<br />
Panzer Engineer Battalion, which had been in division reserve, was<br />
assigned to occupy a strongpoint. <strong>The</strong> 1st Battalion of the 1st<br />
Panzer Grenadier Regiment, which appears in Combat Team Hahm<br />
in figure 58, did not appear in the chart prepared on 21 July (fig.<br />
59). An explanation of this <strong>and</strong> other changes is contained in the<br />
following excerpt from an order dated 20 July:<br />
To restore coherency among the units, the following changes will be carried out:<br />
1st Battalion, 1st Panzer Grenadier Regiment, will be dissolved, <strong>and</strong> personnel,<br />
weapons, equipment, <strong>and</strong> motor transport will be taken over by 1st Battalion, 2d<br />
Panzer Grenadier Regiment. In the same way regimental headquarters, 2d Panzer<br />
Grenadier Regiment, will be taken over by 1st Battalion, 2d PanzeT Grenadier<br />
Regiment. 2d Battalion, 9Zd Panzer Grenadier Regiment, will be dissolved <strong>and</strong> in-<br />
2 That is, under comm<strong>and</strong> of Ohring.