○ 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
Appendix IV
Tank Production, 1941
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)
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
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-controclass="underline" 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)
○ 22.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Wilhelm von Apell Aufstellung)
• XIV Panzerkorps (General der Infanterie Gustav von Wietersheim)
○ 14.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Ferdinand Heim)
○ 60.Infanterie-Division (mot.)
4. Panzerarmee (Generaloberst Hermann Hoth)
• XXIV Panzerkorps (General der Panzertruppen Wilibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlenkamp) KIA – 3 October 1942
○ 9.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Johannes Baeßler)
○ 11.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Hermann Balck)
○ 3.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalmajor Helmuth Schlömer)
• XXXXVIII Panzerkorps (General der Panzertruppen Rudolf Veiel)
○ 24.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Bruno Ritter von Hauenschild)
○ 16.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Sigfrid Henrici)
○ Grossdeutschland Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalleutnant Walter Hörnlein)
6. Armee (General der Panzertruppe Friederich Paulus)
• XXXX Panzerkorps (General der Kavallerie Georg Stumme)
○ 3.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Hermann Breith)
○ 23.Panzer-Division (Generalleutnant Hans Freiherr von Boineburg-Lengsfeld) – Relieved of command 20 July 1942, re-instated in August. Wounded in action 27 December.
○ 29.Infanterie-Division (mot.) (Generalmajor Max Fremerey)
Under Heeresgruppe Süd controclass="underline"
• LVII Panzerkorps (General der Panzertruppen Friedrich Kirchner)
○ 13.Panzer-Division (General der Panzertruppen Traugott Herr)
○ SS-Division “Wiking” (Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner)
Reinforcements:
September
• 1./sPz.Abt. 502 (Tiger) [34 tanks]
October
• 27.Panzer-Division (Oberst Helmut Michalik) [50 Tanks]
November
• Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 200
• 6.Panzer-Division (Generalmajor Erhard Raus) [159 tanks]
December
• Panzer-Abteilung 138 [38 tanks] (Independent Army-level unit)
• 2./s.Pz.Abt. 502 (Tiger) [18 tanks]
• s.Pz.Abt. 503 (Tiger) [51 tanks]
○ Note: The 6, 7 and 10.Panzer-Divisionen were withdrawn from the Soviet Union in May–June 1942 and transferred to Heeresgruppe D in France.
Leningrad Front (General-leytenant Leonid A. Govorov)