Sledgehammers: Strengths and Flaws of Tiger Tank Battalions in World War II"Although much is available about Tiger tanks' technical details and some of the most famous soldiers and units that employed them, until now, there has been little concerning the organization and tactical use of heavy tank battalions across the theaters in which they were employed. [Wilbeck] provides an in-depth look at heavy tank battalions' organizations and tactics, including the tactical doctrine by which these elite units were supposed to fight and case studies to illustrate how they were actually employed on the battlefield"--Page 4 of cover. |
Contents
Introduction to Heavy Tank Battalions | 3 |
Heavy Tank Battalion Overview | 12 |
Growing Pains and Adaptation | 37 |
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17th Panzer Division 1st Company 3d Company action Allied American antitank guns Armored Division armored forces Army Group North artillery assault guns assembly area attack Battle of Kursk breakthrough bridgehead British Cavalry and Armor Combat Group Peiper commander counterattack crews damaged defensive positions doctrine Dünaburg elements enemy tanks February fielded fire front German forces Glantz Guderian Heavy Tank Battalion heavy tank companies Ibid III Panzer Corps Infantry Division J. J. Fedorowicz January Jentz July kill ratio kilometers King Tigers Kleine and Kuhn main gun medium tanks Michael Wittmann military minefield mission Museum of Cavalry Normandy offensive Operation BAGRATION Operation ZITADELLE operational Tigers organization Panzer Corps Panzer Division Panzer IIIs Panzertruppen Patton Museum penetration platoon Report road Schneider schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 Sherman Soviet forces Soviet tanks SS-Heavy Tank Battalion tactical talion Tank Battalion 501 terrain Tiger Tanks Tigers destroyed Tigers in Combat U.S. Army vehicles Villers-Bocage