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

• 26th Mechanized Corps (General-major Nikolai I. Kirichenko) [total of 184 light tanks] from North Caucasus MD

○ 52nd Tank Division/101st Tank Division (Polkovnik Gregory M. Mikhailov)

○ 56th Tank Division/102nd Tank Division (Polkovnik Ivan D. Illarionov) KIA – October 1941

○ 103rd Motorized Division (General-major Gregory T. Timofeev)

○ 109th Tank Division (Polkovnik Semen P. Chernobai)

• Elements from 27th Mechanized Corps in Transcaucasus (re-designated 15 July 1941)

○ 9th Tank Division/104th Tank Division (Polkovnik Vasily G. Burkov) [208 light tanks] WIA – July 1941

○ 53rd Tank Division/105th Tank Division (Polkovnik Aleksei S. Beloglazov)

○ 221st Motorized Division/106th Tank Division (Polkovnik Gersh M. Roytenberg)

August:

• 1st and 7th Tank Brigades

September:

• 2, 13, 15, 16, 29, 121, 123, 124, 126, 127, 128, 129, 142, 143, 147, 148, 150 Tank Brigades

October:

• 4, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 Tank Brigades;

• 60th Tank Divisions (General-major Aleksei F. Popov) from Far East. [179 tanks]

November:

• 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 48, 145, 146 Tank Brigades

• 58th Tank Division (General-major Aleksandr A. Kotliarov) from Far East [200 light tanks]. Suicide – 20 November 1941

• 112th Tank Division (Polkovnik Andrei L. Getman) from Far East [210 T-26].

December:

• 6, 54, 68, 69, 70, 71 Tank Brigades

Appendix III Tanks on the Eastern Front, 1941

German Tanks

Soviet Tanks

Appendix IV Tank Production, 1941

Germany

Manufacturing Centers: Magdeburg (Krupp-Grusonwerk AG: Pz.IV); Plauen (Vogtlaendische Maschinenfabrik AG: Pz.IV); Berlin (Alkett & Daimler-Benz AG: Pz.III [Alkett was a subsidiary of Rheinmetall-Borsig]); Kassel (Henschel & Sohn AG, Waggonfabrik Wegmann AG: Pz.III); Nurnberg (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg AG: Pz.III); Hannover (Maschinenfabrik Niedersachen Hannover, GmbH: Pz.III); Braunschweig (Muehlenbau und Industrie AG (MIAG): Pz.III); Breslau (Fahrzeug und Motorenbau, GmbH (FAMO): Pz.II); Pilsen (Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik AG: Pz.38(t))

Tank Engines: Friedrichshafen (Maybach Motorenbau:Maybach HL 120 TRM); Berlin (Norddeutsche Motorenbau)

Main Guns: Dusseldorf (Rheinmetall-Borsig AG:) 5cm Kw.K.38 L/42, 7.5cm Kw.K.37 L/24

New tanks: Pz.III Ausf J with long 5cm KwK 39 L/60 first introduced in December 1941 (40 built)

Soviet Union

Manufacturing Centers: Leningrad (KV-1 until October 1941, T-50 July–August); Chelyabinsk (KV-1 from July 1941); Kharkov (T-34 until October 1941); Stalingrad (T-34, T-60); Gorkiy (T-34 from September 1941, T-60), Nizhniy Tagil (T-34, from December 1941); Moscow/Kolomna (T-60)

Tank Engines: V-2 Diesel engine (Zavod 75 in Kharkov)

Main Guns: 76.2mm F-34 gun (Zavod 92 in Gorky)

New tank models:

• T-34/76 Model 1941 with 76.2mm F-34 gun introduced in February 1941

• T-50 light tank with 45mm M1938 gun introduced in July 1941

• T-60 light tank with 20mm TNSh L/107 cannon introduced in September 1941

Appendix V Armour Order of Battle, 1 July 1942

German

Heeresgruppe Nord (Generalfeldmarschall Georg von Küchler)

16. Armee (Generalfeldmarschall Ernst Busch)

• XXXIX Panzerkorps (General der Panzertruppe Hans Jürgen von Arnim)

○ 8.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Erich Brandenberger)

○ Heerestruppen: Panzer-Regiment 203

18. Armee (Generaloberst Georg Lindemann)

• XXVIII Armeekorps (General der Artillerie Herbert Loch)

○ 12.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Walter Wessel)

Heeresgruppe Mitte (Generalfeldmarschall Günther von Kluge)

2. Panzerarmee (Generaloberst Rudolf Schmidt)

• XXXV Armeekorps (General der Artillerie Rudolf Kämpfe)

○ 4.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Heinrich Eberbach)

• XLVII Panzerkorps (General der Artillerie Joachim Lemelsen)

○ 17.Panzer-Division (Generalmajor Rudolf-Eduard Licht)

○ 18. Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Karl Freiherr von Thüngen)

4. Armee (Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici)

• LVI Panzerkorps (General der Panzertruppen Ferdinand Schaal)

○ 19.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Gustav Schmidt)

9. Armee (Generaloberst Walter Model)

• XXIII Armeekorps (General der Infanterie Albrecht Schubert)

○ 1.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Walter Krüger)

○ 5.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Gustav Fehn)

• XXXXVI Panzerkorps (General der Infanterie Hans Zorn)

○ 20.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Walther Düvert)

○ Army-control: 2.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Hans-Karl von Esebeck)

Heeresgruppe Süd (Generalfeldmarschall Fedor von Bock)

1. Panzerarmee (Generaloberst Ewald von Kleist)

• III Panzerkorps (General der Panzertruppen Leo Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg)

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