HG Assault Guns in Poland (Updated for V5)*
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Date: July 28, 1944*                     
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Battle Type: German delay vs. Russian advance*
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Design: CB Blackard*
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Battle Description:  On July 15, 1944, the Hermann Goring Assault Gun Battalion was pulled out of the Budrio-Bologna-Florence area and sent over the Brenner Pass to the army ordnance depot in Breslau.  There it was issued the Jagdpanzer IV which was based on the chassis of the Panzer IV and armed with a long-barrelled 75mm KwK.  On July 22, thirteen of the new tank-destroyers were loaded aboard trains and by July 26 were rolling through Warsaw in the direction of Pilawa.  The tank-destroyers detrained in Otwok, southeast of Warsaw, using the station's head ramps.  The unit then drove on to Pogorzel situated north of Siennice.  On July 28, the first T-34s were encountered.*
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Source:  Kurowski, "The History of the Fallschirm Panzerkorps Hermann Goring", pp. 278-83*
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