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INTRODUCTION This mission command analysis evaluates the battle of Team Desobry at the town of Noville, Belgium. These events took place 18-19 December 1944, and later impacted the battle fought at Bastogne during World War II. It is the goal of this review to discuss and analyze three mission command principles displayed during this battle: Create shared understanding, exercise disciplined initiative, and the acceptance of prudent risk. One of the main characters that took part in this story

The reason for Hitler’s delay in attacking earlier in the year was for the 200 new Panther tanks which would take part of the operation as part of Army Group South. Also in Army Group South would be the crack SS Panzer Divisions which consisted of the majority of heavy armor vehicles and majority of Tiger tanks which would be the strongest tank on the battlefield. The Russians on the other hand were able to field an army that dwarfed the Germans forces. With the delay in the German plans to attack

Cobra aka. St.Lo. After which on Aug. 6 1944 they (30th division) was rushed by truck to the Mortain-St. Barthelmy area to take over positions that had been manned by the reinforced First Infantry division. Later that day without warning, four German panzer divisions attacked them. This is the day (August 6, 1944) in which Joseph Bradford was both injured and captured. On the third day of the Battle of Mortain a German SS officer came up the hill under a white flag, and gave Cpt. R.A. Kerley the

reassembling the German ranks of tanks.(Panzer) To hide his true intentions the tanks were officially called agricultural tractors.(Panzerkampfwagens) Of the tanks that were produced in the stretch from 1933 to the end of World War II, the most common series was the Panzerkampfwagen. Panzerkampfwagen and its shortened, more common form, Panzer, is translated in German as tank or armoured vehicle. From 1933 to 1937, The Panzer I through IV were developed.(Panzer) The Panzer I was initially meant as a training

Introduction During World War II, Nazi Germany developed numerous tank designs, each with varying levels of success. Out of these designs, the Panzer IV, Tiger I, and Tiger II tanks proved to be the most effective tanks produced by Nazi Germany. This impressive battle record is shown through the performances of the tanks themselves as well as the German implementation and tactics involved in using their armored divisions. The potency of their designs is shown through the analysis of their specifications

The Panzer IV The Panzer IV was not intended to be the main tank to engage in combat against enemy armoured vehicles. originally the Panzer III was supposed to be met with the challenge, but after the rise and increase of powerful opposition it was too vulnerable to be the German’s tank of battle. So, how was this tank a marvel in war creation, but the Germans still lost the war? The war saw many technological advances over the duration of the conflict. Many of these came in the form of weapons

unless Allied supplies could be captured intact and that was a long shot in any case. Hitler had been defeated by Allied air superiority, by the defenders of Bastogne, by poor coordination among his own forces (especially between the Fifth and Sixth Panzer Divisions) and by a new weapon, the proximity fuse which could make a shell go off at a distance from its target through the use of radars. However, in the end it was his extreme military belief that ‘attack is the best defense’, that proved fatal

viewed the capture of this city as a psychological advantage as well as providing an impact to Russian military manufacturing. Germany did not initially believe Stalingrad would prove difficult to occupy. The German 6th Army and elements of the 4th Panzer Army would be assigned as the lead effort to achieve this advancement known as Operation Blue. Figure 1 below is a depiction of disposition of forces during Operation Blue as well as planned assault locations. The commander of the 6th Army, Colonel

which included 14 German infantry divisions guarded by four Panzer tank divisions against a mere 80,000 Americans. The first assault happened on December 16, 1944, on a thinly guarded 85 mile stretch from Echternach in the south to Monschau in the north in the Ardennes Mountains, called the Ghost Front. For Adolf Hitler and the Reich, this was their last big push against the Allied Forces. For SS Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Peiper and his panzer division, it was their chance to

The Sixth Panzer Army which was under Sepp Dietrich. The Sixth Panzer Army was post to capture Antwerp. The second army was the Fifth Panzer The map that showed the Germans plan. Army lead by General Hasso von Manteuffel. There objective was to take the middle attack route and capture Brussels. The third army was the Seventh