DER TIGER VOLUME 3 SCHWERE PANZERABTEILUNG 503
Written by Volker Ruff
Published by Volker Ruff
in 2018
ISBN: 9783981690828
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- MILITARY
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- TANKS
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE
- GERMAN
- WORLD WAR II
DER TIGER VOLUME 3 SCHWERE PANZERABTEILUNG 503
Written by Volker Ruff.
Stock no. 1826155
1st.
2018.
Hardback.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition.
A Pictorial Documentation of the German Heavy Tank Battalions 1942-45. Schwere Panzerabteilung 503 fought on the battlefields of Russia, France, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Dual language: English & German. Large oblong format. B/w pictorial glazed boards. B/w photos. ISBN: 9783981690828. A lovely copy.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgement
- Formation and Training
- Pz.Abt. 503
- Dollersheim training ground - November '42
- Transport to Prolestarsk, southeast of Rostov
- Southeast Russia - Kalmyk Front
- Kalmyk Steppe
- Guarding the Manytsch crossings
- Salsk and retreat to Rostov on the Don
- Mission of 2./502 in the Kuberle sector
- Workshop unit at Proletarsk
- Workshop unit at Rostov
- Workshop unit at the Iljitsch plant in Mariupol
- Missions around Rostov and at the Mius
- Transfer toward Bogodukhov
- On the way to Charkov
- Replacements
- Training - Tiger driving school
- Training with 6., 7. and 19. Panzer Divisions
- Surmounting tank ditches
- Kursk - 3./503 in Operation >>Citadel<<
- Tank recovery
- 1./503 -operations in July 1943
- Kurokovka
- Workshop at Tovrovo
- Stuck fast
- Summer to autumn 1943
- Ukraine - between Donets and Dnieper
- Winter 43/44 until spring - Pz.Reg >>Bake<<
- Workshop at Zhmerynka
- Spring 1944 - Lviv - Kolomea
- Reestablishement s.Pz.Abt.503 - June 1944
- France - Invasion Front
- Night march
- In the forest of Canteloup
- 3./503 - Training ground Mailly le Camp
- Stopover in Paris
- Retreat to Rouen - Seine Ferry
- Arriving the Eastbank of Seine
- Re-equipment - September '44
- Hungary 1944/45
- Budapest
- Winter '44/45 - Gran bridgehead
- Spring 1945
- Retreat and the end of the war