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Front cover image: Grenadiers near a Panther from I./SS-Panzer Regiment 12, 25 June
1944. (Ullstein Bilderdienst)
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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Glossary
Introduction
Part I: The Combat History of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 in Normandy
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2
3
4
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9
Organization and Training of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 (29 June 1943–6 June
1944)
The First Battle for Caen, 6–10 June 1944
The Second Battle for Caen, 11–18 June 1944
Operational Interval, 19–24 June 1944
The Third Battle for Caen, 25–30 June 1944
Another Operational Interval and the Fourth Battle for Caen, 1–10 July 1944
Replacement and Reorganization, 12–17 July 1944
Fighting between Falaise and Caen, 18 July–21 August 1944
Fighting between Touques and the Seine, 22–29 August 1944
Photo Gallery
Part II: The Combat History of SS-Panzerjäger Abteilung 12 in Normandy
1
Organization, Equipment and Training of SS-Panzerjäger Abteilung 12 (6
February–9 July 1944)
Combat of SS-Panzerjäger Abteilung 12 in the Battle for Normandy, 10 July–26
August 1944
2
Conclusion:
The Effectiveness of the Armour of the 12.SS-Panzer Division
“Hitlerjugend” in Normandy
Appendices
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
Table of Ranks
Officers of SS-Panzer Regiment 12*
Assignment of Tactical Numbers to SS-Panzer Regiment 12, January 1944
Tanks assigned to SS-Panzer-Regiment 12 1 January-30 April 1944
Weapons inventory of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 30 April 1944
Allied aircraft shot down by the 2cm anti-aircraft guns of SS-Panzer Regiment 12,
10 May–3 August 1944
Tank strength of SS-Panzer Regiment 12 1 June-11 August 1944
Total losses of I./SS-Panzer Regiment 12 in Panther tanks 7 June-4 September
1944
Allied tanks knocked out by II./SS-Panzer Regiment 12, 7 June–9 August 1944
Battle casualties of the Stab of SS-Panzer Regiment 12, 7 June–27 September
1944
Battle casualties of I./SS-Panzer Regiment 12, 7 June–31 October 1944
Battle casualties of II./SS-Panzer Regiment 12, 7 June–20 October 1944
Effectiveness of the armoured fighting vehicles of 12.SS-Panzer Division related
to Allied operations 7 June-16 August 1944
Summarised report of enemy tanks and other weapons knocked out by SS-Panzer
Regiment 12 7 June-1 September 1944 (report dated 17 October 1944)
Allied tanks knocked out by the Panthers of I./SS-Panzer Regiment 12 8 June-1
September 1944
Supply of new tanks for SS-Panzer Regiment 12 during the combat in Normandy
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