5th Waffen SS Panzer "Division Wiking" 1940-1945 Illustrated by German Army Center Military History
English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00VCA7O3I | 213 pages | AZW3 | 5.05 Mb
English | 2015 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00VCA7O3I | 213 pages | AZW3 | 5.05 Mb
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.