Название: 5th Waffen SS Panzer "Division Wiking" 1940-1945 Illustrated
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: German Army Center Military History
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 213
Размер: 16,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

The 5th SS Panzer Division “Wiking” emerged on October 22, 1943, from the renaming of the 5th SS Panzer Grenadier Division “Wiking”.. At this time, the division had a HKL based on the Dnieper between Kanev and Cherkassy. On 13 November 1943, the Red Army to establish a bridgehead across the Dnieper in Cherkassy. In the ensuing heavy fighting, she managed a month later to conquer Cherkassy. Subsequently, the positions of the 5th SS Panzer Division ran from south Kanev along the Dnieper Cherkasy direction and then in a south-westerly direction Smela. To December 31, 1943 announced the Division a strength of 14,647 men.