Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt

○ 17.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Hans-Jürgen von Arnim)

○ 18.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Walther Nehring)

○ 29.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalmajor Walter von Boltenstern)

Panzergruppe 3 (Generaloberst Hermann Hoth)

• XXXIX Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppe Rudolf Schmidt)

○ 7.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Hans Freiherr von Funck)

○ 20.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Horst Stumpff)

○ 14.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Friedrich Fürst)

○ 20.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Hans Zorn)

• LVII Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppen Adolf Kuntzen)

○ 12.Panzer-Division (Generaloberst Josef Harpe)

○ 19.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Otto von Knobelsdorff)

○ 18.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalmajor Friedrich Herrlein)

Heeresgruppe Süd (Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt)

Panzergruppe 1 (Generaloberst Ewald von Kleist)

• XIV Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Infanterie Gustav von Wietersheim)

○ 9.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Alfred Ritter von Hubicki)

○ SS-Division “Wiking” (SS-Brigadeführer Felix Steiner)

• III Armeekorps (mot.) (Generaloberst Eberhard von Mackensen)

○ 13.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Walther Düvert)

○ 14.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Friedrich Kühn)

• XXXXVIII Armeekorps (mot.) (General der Panzertruppen Werner Kempf)

○ 11.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Ludwig Crüwell)

○ 16.Panzer-Division (Generaloberst Hans-Valentin Hube)

• Army Group Reserve:

○ SS-Division (mot.) Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (SS-Obergruppenführer Joseph Dietrich)

○ 16.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Sigfrid Henrici)

○ 25.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Heinrich Clößner)

Note: There were also 11 Sturmgeschütz battalions supporting Operation Barbarossa; 2 with Nord, 6 with Mitte and 4

with Süd.

Reinforcements:

September:

• 2.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Rudolf Veiel) [194 tanks]

• 5.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Gustav Fehn) [186 tanks]

December:

• Panzer-Regiment 203 (Oberst Hero Breusing) [142 tanks]

Soviet

Northern Front (General Leytenant Markian M. Popov)

14th Army (General Leytenant Valerian A. Frolov)

• 1st Tank Division (General-major Viktor I. Baranov)

23rd Army (General Leytenant Petr S. Pshennikov) KIA- 13 December 1941

• 10th Mechanized Corps (General-major Ivan G. Lazarev) Arrested – July 1941

○ 21st Tank Division (Polkovnik Leonid V. Bunin)

○ 24th Tank Division (Polkovnik Makariy I. Chesnokov)

○ 198th Motorized Rifle Division (General-major Vladimir V. Kryukov)

Front Assets:

• 1st Mechanized Corps (General-major Mikhail L. Cherniavsky)

○ 3rd Tank Division (Polkovnik Konstantin Yu. Andreev)

○ 163rd Motor Rifle Division (General-major Ivan M. Kuznetsov)

Northwest Front (General-Polkovnik Fedor I. Kuznetsov)

8th Army (General Leytenant Petr P. Sobennikov)

• 12th Mechanized Corps (General-major Nikolai M. Shestopalov) Captured – 28 June 1941

○ 23rd Tank Division (Polkovnik Timofei S. Orlenko) Died – 14 October 1941

○ 28th Tank Division (Polkovnik Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky)

○ 202nd Mechanized Division (Polkovnik Vladimir K. Gorbachev)

11th Army (General Leytenant Vasily I. Morozov)

• 3rd Mechanized Corps (General-major Aleksei V. Kurkin)

○ 2nd Tank Division (General-major Egor N. Solyankin) KIA – 26 June 1941

○ 5th Tank Division (Polkovnik Fedor F. Fedorov)

○ 84th Mechanized Division (General-major Petr I. Fomenko)

Western Front (General-Polkovnik Dmitry G. Pavlov) Executed – 22 July 1941

3rd Army (General Leytenant Vasily I. Kuznetsov)

• 11th Mechanized Corps – (General-major Dmitri K. Mostevenko)

○ 29th Tank Division (Polkovnik Nikolai P. Studnev) KIA – 14 July 1941

○ 33 rd Tank Division (Polkovnik Mikhail F. Panov)

○ 204th Motor Rifle Division (Polkovnik Aleksei M. Pirov) MIA – 19 September 1941

4th Army (General-major Aleksandr A. Korobkov) Executed – 22 July 1941

• 14th Mechanized Corps (General-major Stepan I. Oborin) Executed – October 1941

○ 22nd Tank Division (General-major Vasiliy P. Puganov) KIA – 24 June 1941

○ 30th Tank Division (Polkovnik Semen I. Bogdanov)

○ 205th Motor Rifle Division (Polkovnik Filipp F. Kudyurov) KIA – 30 June 1941

10th Army (General Leytenant Konstantin D. Golubev)

• 6th Mechanized Corps (General-major Mikhail G. Khatskilevich) KIA – 25 June 1941

○ 4th Tank Division (General-major Andrei G. Potaturchev) Captured 6 July 1941

○ 7th Tank Division (General-major Semyon V. Borzilov) KIA – 28 September 1941

○ 29th Motor Rifle Division (General-major Ibrahim P. Bikzhanov) Captured 25 July 1941

• 13th Mechanized Corps (General-major Petr N. Akhliustin) KIA – 28 July 1941

○ 25th Tank Division (Polkovnik Nikolai M. Nikiforov) MIA – June 1941

○ 31st Tank Division (Polkovnik Sergey A. Kalikhovich)

○ 208th Motor Rifle Division (Polkovnik Vladimir I. Nichiporovich)

Front Assets:

• 17th Mechanized Corps (General-major Mikhail P. Petrov) Died – 10 October 1941

○ 27th Tank Division (Polkovnik Aleksei O. Akhmanov)