HG Panthers in Silesia (Updated for V5)*
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Date: January 30, 1945*                     
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Battle Type: German and Soviet Meeting Engagement*
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Design: CB Blackard*
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Battle Description: The completion of training on the new Panzer V, or Panther, which the 1st Company of the Hermann Goring Panzer Regiment received on October 10, 1944, placed an extremely potent weapon in the hands of the company commander, Oberleutnant Kraus.  From October to December 1944, the company did battle against Russian forces in East Prussia.  In January 1945, it was transferred to Silesia to counter advancing Soviet forces there.  In this battle, Kraus and his 1st Company, advancing west to the Oder, surprise a Soviet armored column.*
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Source:  Kurowski, "The History of the Fallschirm Panzerkorps Hermann Goring", pp. 327-28*
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