Ritterkreuz Action of Gerhard Hensel

Gerhard Hensel (24 May 1912 - 26 January 1943) received the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 26 December 1941 as Oberfeldwebel and Zugführer in 2.Kompanie / I.Abteilung / Panzer-Regiment 15 / 11.Panzer-Division. On 29 July 1941 Oberfeldwebel Hensel and his Zug clashed with double the number of enemy tanks near Manjokowka, with Hensel at the spearhead of his unit. Despite the loss of two of his own Panzers Hensel resolved to carry on the battle, and succeeded in eliminating 6 enemy medium tanks with his Panzer. As a result of this deed the march route for the continued advance of the Division was cleared and it could continue its movement without interruption. Hensel would be awarded the Ritterkreuz for this action.

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https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Hensel,_Gerhard
https://www.kometmilitaria.com/product-page/signed-private-picture-of-ritterkreuztr%C3%A4ger-gerhard-hensel-panzer-regiment-15
https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/85692/Hensel-Gerhard.htm

Guderian with a Panzer IV

Generaloberst Heinz Guderian (Oberbefehlshaber Panzergruppe 2) standing beside a Panzerkampfwagen IV of Panzer-Regiment 35 / 4.Panzer-Division, 12 September 1941. The picture was taken in the Eastern Front during Unternehmen Barbarossa, German invasion of Soviet Union.

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https://www.ebay.de/itm/385120762924?hash=item59aafc7c2c:g:9FoAAOSwhjljJXfT

Panzer III in Poland 1939

Poland.- Group of tanks standing in a meadow behind a village in Poland, September 1939. The tank in the foreground is a Panzer III Ausf. D with crews in turret. The picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Rascheit. Starting the Second World War since the invasion of Poland, Germany had only about a hundred Panzer III tanks, so in the Polish campaign and the battles with the French and British armies in the west, this tank was not so noticeable among the mass of more outdated tanks with which at that time it was armed tank forces Germany. But by the beginning of the eastern campaign of the Wehrmacht, the Pz.III had already become the main tank of the German army. On the Soviet borders on June 22, 1941, there were 965 Panzer III tanks!

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Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-318-0083-30
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-318-0083-30,_Polen,_Panzer_III_mit_Panzersoldaten.jpg
https://kvartiraidoma.ru/en/construction/pz-kpfw-3-modifikacii-f-n-rabochie-mesta-ekipazha-tanka-pz-iii-tank-pzkpfw.html

The Funeral of Regimentskommandeur Gustav-Adolf Riebel

This picture was taken by Kriegsberichter Dieck from Propaganda-Kompanie 694, and it shows the funeral of Oberst Gustav-Adolf Riebel, Kommandeur of Panzer-Regiment 24 / 24.Panzer-Division. Riebel was killed in action by artillery shell on 23 August 1942 whilst commanding his regiment just outside Krasnoarmeyskiy, which is just south of Stalingrad on the Volga bend. He was posthumously promoted to Generalmajor.

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https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=154141&start=15