Panzer Regiment 36 at Alexandrowka*
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Date: June 24, 1941*
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Battle Location: Alexandrowka, USSR*
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Battle Type: Germany vs Soviet Union Meeting Engagement*
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Description: The most vigorous resistance to Operation Barbarossa was encountered in the south where the able Soviet Colonel-General Mikahil Kirponos managed to have his mechanised forces converging on the advancing German Panzer Group one, just days after the German invasion.*
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One of the German units caught up in the ensuing battle, which would grow to the largest tank battle thus far was Panzer Regiment 36 of the 14. Panzer Division. Near Alexandrowka the German tankers of I Abteilung, PzRgt 36 met the Soviets in a fierce and untidy battle ultimately resulting in the destruction of some 156 Soviet tanks.*
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Sources: * 
Garms, Rolf; 14. Panzer Division*
Perret, Bryan; Knights of the Black Cross*
