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      A German heavy tank battalion (German: "schwere Panzerabteilung", short: "s PzAbt") was a battalion-sized World War II tank unit of the German Army during World War II, equipped with Tiger I, and later Tiger II, heavy tanks. Originally intended to fight on the offensive during breakthrough operations, the German late-war realities required it to be used in a defensive posture by providing heavy fire support and counter-attacking enemy armored breakthroughs, often organised into ad hoc Kampfgruppen (battlegroups).
      The German heavy tank battalions destroyed a total of 8,100 enemy tanks for the loss of 1,482 of their own, an overall kill/loss ratio of 5.47 though individual unit ratios ranged from 1.28 to 13. The German losses also include non-combat tank write-offs.


      Formation


      Early formation units experimented to find the correct combination of heavy Tiger tanks supported by either medium Panzer III tanks or reconnaissance elements. In 1942 this consisted of 20 Tigers and 16 Panzer IIIs, composed of two companies, each with four platoons of two Tigers and two Panzer IIIs. Each company commander would have an additional Tiger, and battalion command would have another two.
      Later formations had a standard organization of 45 Tiger Tanks, composed of three companies of 14 Tigers each, plus three command vehicles. Maintenance troubles and the mechanical unreliability of the Tigers posed a continuous problem, so often the units would field a smaller number of combat-ready tanks.
      The limited number of these heavy tanks, plus their specialized role in either offensive or defensive missions, meant they were rarely permanently assigned to a single division or corps, but shuffled around according to war circumstances.
      In addition to tanks, each battalion planned to include the following


      = Organisation structure

      =
      The organisation structure of a German heavy Panzer battalion in 1943, in this case the schwere Panzerabteilung 508, was as follows.

      staff / German: Stab
      staff company of three tanks ( Stabskompanie )
      communications platoon / Nachrichtenzug
      armoured reconnaissance platoon (on IFV) / gepanzerter Aufklärungszug
      area reconnaissance platoon / Erkundungszug (ErkdZug)
      engineer platoon ( Pionierzug (PiZug)
      anti-aircraft platoon ( Fliegerabwehrzug (FlakZug)
      1st – 3rd Panzer company (14 tanks each) / 1. – 3. Panzerkompanie
      company detachment (two tanks) ( Kompanietrupp )
      1st – 3rd panzer platoon, each of four tanks each ( 1. – 3. Panzerzug )
      medical service( Sanitätsdienst )
      vehicle repair detachment ( Kfz. Instandsetzungstrupp )
      combat train I ( Gefechtstross I )
      combat train II ( Gefechtstross II )
      baggage train / Gepäcktross
      workshop company ( Werkstattkompanie )
      1st and 2nd workshop platoon (1. and 2. Werkstattzug )
      recovery platoon / Bergezug
      armourer detachment ( Waffenmeisterei )
      communications detachment ( Funkmeisterei )
      spare part detachment ( Ersatzteiltrupp )


      Army units


      By the end of the war, the following heavy panzer detachments had been created. Early units were re-built several times by the end of the war.
      Independent units within the German Army (Heer) were:

      501st Heavy Panzer Battalion - original unit surrended in Tunisia campaign, reformed and destroyed on Eastern Front
      502nd Heavy Panzer Battalion - redesignated 511th on 5 January 1945
      503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion - largely destroyed in Normandy, refitted and deployed on Eastern Front
      504th Heavy Panzer Battalion
      505th Heavy Panzer Battalion
      506th Heavy Panzer Battalion
      507th Heavy Panzer Battalion
      508th Heavy Panzer Battalion
      509th Heavy Panzer Battalion
      510th Heavy Panzer Battalion
      511th Heavy Panzer Battalion
      301st Heavy Panzer Battalion (radio control)


      SS units


      Waffen-SS units were

      101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion largely destoyed by end of the battle of Normandy, withdrawn and refitted with Tiger II and renamed as SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 501 (German: schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 501), part of I SS Panzer Corps in September 1944.
      102nd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion largely destroyed in battle of Normandy, refitted and renamed in September 1944, as SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 502 (schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 502), part of II SS Panzer Corps
      103rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion renamed in 1944, as SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 503 (schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 503), part of III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps
      104th SS Heavy Panzer Battalion (schwere SS-Panzerabteilung 104) was planned 22 October 1943, for IV SS Panzer Corps, but was never formed


      Combat performance



      Tank losses include losses inflicted other than by enemy tanks. Also, many tanks were abandoned by their crews due to a lack of fuel, ammunition or breakdown, especially at the end of war.


      See also


      Organisation of a SS Panzer Division
      Panzer Division


      Notes




      References

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