SS-Panzergrenadiers Attack*
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Date: April 5, 1944*
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Battle Location: Horozanka, Soviet Union*
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Battle Type: Germany advance vs USSR delay*
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Description: By mid-March 1944 a major Soviet offensive had opened up threatening to separate Army Groups Centre and South while also having surrounded large parts of the German First Panzer Army near Kamenez Podolsk.*
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To help shore up the situation the German II-SS Panzer Corps constituted of the newly formed 9th and 10th SS-Panzer Divisions were dispatched from France to the east.*
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In one of the first engagements the I/SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 19 of the 9th SS-Panzer Division attacked Soviet troops near Horozanka. Commanded by SS-major Hagenlocher, the battalion was subordinated to the 367th Infantry Division and became the first unit of the 9th SS Panzer to see action.*
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Notes: If played against the AI the human player should take the German side.*
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Source: Reynolds, M - Sons of the Reich*
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Design by: Ulf Lundstrom.**













