THE COMBAT HISTORY OF GERMAN TIGER TANK BATTALION 503 IN WORLD WAR II
Written by Franz-Wilhelm Lochmann, Richard Freiherr Von Rosen, Alfred Rubbel
Published by Stackpole Books
in 2021
ISBN: 9780811739344
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- HISTORY
- WORLD WAR II
THE COMBAT HISTORY OF GERMAN TIGER TANK BATTALION 503 IN WORLD WAR II
Written by Franz-Wilhelm Lochmann, Richard Freiherr Von Rosen, Alfred Rubbel.
Stock no. 1826101
2021.
Softcover.
Large format.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Large format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780811739344. This is a physical copy of an Amazon print on demand book. A clean copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART ONE: Organisation of the Battalion
- Chapter 1. In Review
- Chapter 2. Summary of the Employment History of Tiger Tank Battalion 503
- Chapter 3. Roster of Senior Positions in Tiger Tank Battalion 503, 1942-45
- Chapter 4. Recipients of High Military Decorations in Tiger Tank Battalion 503
- Chapter 5. Organisation and Strength of a Tiger Tank Battalion
- Chapter 6. A Tank Commander Remembers
- Chapter 7. The 2nd Company
- Chapter 8. My Time with the 3rd Company
- Chapter 9. Technical Services and Supply/Logistics
- PART TWO: First Employment in the Kalmuck Steppes, 1942-43
- Chapter 10. The Senior Tiger Battalion - Tiger Tank Battalion 503
- Chapter 11. Organisation of the 3rd Company (formerly the 2nd Company, Tiger Tank Battalion 502) and its Initial Employment with Army Group Don
- Chapter 12. Recollections of a Panzer Soldier of the 1st Company
- Chapter 13. Diary Entries of Lieutnant von Koerber, Platoon Leader of the 1st Company (1 January to 7 February 1943)
- Chapter 14. First After-Action Report of the Company Commander of the 2nd Company Tiger Tank Battalion 502
- PART THREE: In The Ukraine, 1943-44
- Chapter 15. With Army Group Don in the Ukraine from April 1943 to May 1944
- Chapter 16. Recollections from My time as Commander of Tiger Tank Batallion 503, June 1943-January 1944
- Chapter 17. Recollections of a Panzer Soldier (Part 2)_
- Chapter 18. Fendesack's Platoon
- Chapter 19. The Dog and Pony Show
- Chapter 20. Citadel
- Chapter 21. Tiger 311 on the First Day of Citadel
- Chapter 22. Tiger 332 in Action from July 1943 to the end of January 1944
- Chapter 23. From the Donez to the Dnjepr in September 1943
- Chapter 24. Tscherkassy
- Chapter 25. The Operations of Tiger Tank Battalion 503 in Opening the Tscherkassy Pocket
- Chapter 26. Battle Group Mittermeier (Tiger Tank Battalion 503 "new")
- PART FOUR: Normandy 1944
- Chapter 27. The Battalion Receives the King Tiger
- Chapter 28. Employment on the Invasion Front, July-August 1944
- Chapter 29. Recollections of a Panzer Soldier (Part III)
- PART FIVE: In Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1944-45
- Chapter 30. Employment in Hungary
- Chapter 31. After-Action Reports of Hauptmann Fromme and Oberleutnant Oemler
- Chapter 32. Recollections of a Panzer Soldier (Part IV): The Reorganisation of the Battalion
- Chapter 33. The End of Separate Unit Status: Incorporation into Panzer Corps "Feldherrnhalle"
- Chapter 34. Diary Entries from 14 December 1944 to May 1945 as Commander of Tiger Tank Battalion 5t03
- Chapter 35. The Final Engagements of the Battalion with Army Group South
- PART SIX: The End, 1945
- Chapter 36. The Final Hours of the Battalion
- Chapter 37. Recollections of a Panzer Soldier (Part V)
- Chapter 38. Woe to the Vanquished
- Chapter 39. My Period as a Prisoner of War from May 1945 to October 1955