![]() ![]() Army Group B reports that thedivision has no tanks left and only four battalions of infantry.ġ2 September, 1944: Kampfgruppe “Frundsberg” formed underBrigadeführer Heinz Harmel, slated for redeployment to Aachen for restand refit.ġ7 September, 1944: Commencement of Operation MARKET GARDEN.Division begins redeployment across the Arnhem Bridge to Nijmegen. Withdrawal across the Orne River begins.Ģ2 August, 1944: All resistance in the Falaise Pocket ceases Remnants of thedivision sent to Holland for rest and refit. Operation EPSOM fails.ġ July, 1944: Division badly mauled by aerial bombardment, location 5kilometers south of Villers-Bocage.ġ5 July, 1944: Operation GREENLINE traps the division west of Caen.ģ0 July, 1944: US 4th Armored Division seizes Avranches.ģ1 July, 1944: British VIII Corps begins Operation BLUECOAT, an assaulttowards Vire.Ģ August, 1944: Redeployed against the British VIII Corps, halting theiradvance 3 kilometers from Vire.ġ3 August, 1944: Division holding off US XV Corps at Domfront.ġ6 August, 1944: Division 1 kilometer north of Briouze, in the FalaisePocket. Hill 112 falls to British 11th Armored Division, whichwithdraws back across the Odon River, and Hill 112 is retaken by Germanforces. British11th Armored Division halts counterattacks.Ģ8 June, 1944: British 11th Armored Division crosses the OdonRiver.Ģ9 June, 1944: Division, assigned to II.SS-Panzerkorps, moves intoposition between the XLVII.Panzerkorps and I.SS-Panzerkorps, facing Hill 112along the Odon River. Commencementof Operation EPSOM.Ģ7 June, 1944: Counterattacks against British VIII Corps. Divisionbegins northward movement towards Kowel.ġ4 April, 1944: Soviet First Ukrainian Front captures Tarnopol.ġ7 April, 1944: Division still engaged west of the Bug River.ġ1 June, 1944: Hitler orders cancellation of a planned offensivenear Kowel, division ordered to France.ġ6 June, 1944: From his Rastenburg headquarters, Hitler orders thedivision to reinforce the disintigrating defence ofNormandy.Ģ3 June, 1944: Paul Hausser, II.SS-Panzerkorps commander, reportsto Generalfeldmarschal Erwin Rommel that the division hasarrived in France.Ģ5 June, 1944: Division arrives in Normandy, and proceeds topositions between Caen and Villers-Bocage. November, 1943: II Battalion, SS-Panzer-Regiment 10 “Langemarck”re-organized with two Panzer IV companies and two StuG III companies.Ģ5 March, 1944: Generalfeldmarschal Erich Manstein decides to commit thedivision to an operation for relief of the 1.Armee, located just east of the ZbruzRiver, 35 miles east of Tarnopol.ġ April, 1944: Division arrives at the front and is attached to 4.Panzer-Armee,Armeegruppe “North Ukraine” (formerly Armeegruppe “South”) I Battalion,SS-Panzer-Regiment 10 “Langemarck” remains in France.ĥ April, 1944: 4.Panzer-Armee begins its thrust east, its division beginattacks against Soviet positions across the Seret River.Ħ April, 1944: Fighting at Buchach starts opening the “Corridor”.ħ April, 1944: Division makes first contact with elements of 1.Armee.ĩ April, 1944: Elements of the 1.Armee withdraw to reinforce the Seretbridgehead, 600 tons of supplies are shipped through the “Corridor”. ![]() ReichsführerHeinrich Himmler, when questioned by Adolf Hitler concerning the averageage of the soldiers and officers of the division, states “18 Jahre” (18 years).ġ February, 1943: SS-Panzer-Regiment 10 formed, intially issuedPanzerIVs, and given the honor title, “Langemarck”.Ħ June, 1943: Division receives honor title, “Karl der Grosse”.ģ October, 1943: Designated SS-Panzer-Division “Frundsberg”.Ģ2 October, 1943: Re-designated 10.SS-Panzer-Division”Frundsberg”, and SS-Panzer-Regiment 10 “Langemarck” re-organized withone PanzerV (Panther) battalion, and one Panzer IV battalion. ![]() Frundsberg was a well known soldier and hero who fought in theservices of the Hapsburg Monarchy during several wars.Ĩ January, 1943: Recruiting in progress division being raised in Charente,France, intially named SS-Panzergrenadier-Division 10. This unit was named after Georg von Frundsberg who lived from 1473 to1528. 10.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division “Frundsberg”. ![]()
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