SS sPzAbt 502 Attacks Kustrin (Updated for V5)*
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Date: March 21, 1945*                     
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Battle Type: German Assault vs Soviet Defend*
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Design: CB Blackard*
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Battle Description: In order to smash the increasingly obvious advance of the 1st Belorussian Front (Zhukov) in the area of Kustrin - Frankfurt, Hitler ordered an attack to immediately smash the bridgehead formed by the Soviets at Kustrin.  On March 18, 1945, the schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 502, equipped with King Tigers, was subordinated to the XXXIX. Panzerkorps and received orders to transfer to Seelow where the Abteilung command post was established.  On March 21, 1945, the attack to eliminate the Soviet bridgehead at Kustrin was commenced, with the King Tigers of schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 502 leading the way.*
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Source:  Tieke, "In the Firestorm of the Last Years of the War", pp. 416-18; map p. 419*
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