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...Panzer units are in effect armored cavalry. After the break-through they move out ahead of the infantry to outflank the enemy and to reach and harass his rear. They influence the direction of the enemy's retirement, but all important is pressure by the masses of infantry...
...Panzer division, land warfare's most formidable post-World-War I innovation, contains some 450 tanks. It includes a tank brigade and a motorized infantry brigade. The tank brigade is divided into two regiments each of two battalions. Each battalion has three light and one medium tank company. Each company is subdivided into four platoons. In the light tank companies three of the platoons consist of three tanks (one the leader's) with a machine gun and a 20-mm. gun apiece, two with two machine guns. The fourth platoon's tanks all carry 37-mm. guns...
...Panzer division's infantry brigade has one infantry regiment of 70 officers and 1,247 men divided into two battalions equipped with light and heavy machine guns, howitzers, six armored cars and a motorcycle company. In addition to these highly diversified arms, the brigade includes a motorcycle battalion of 28 officers and 947 men with light and heavy machine guns and a field artillery regiment of 24 105-mm. howitzers. The brigade's anti-tank battalion has 36 37-mm. guns...
...tactical operations are identical, but above and below are illustrated Panzer troops, in a typical movement...
Above, on the far right, dive bombers working with the Panzer command have blasted an airport and are landing parachutists to demoralize the enemy rear. Center, the enemy bunkers and pillboxes, strafed from the air, are being attacked by ground troops with anti-tank guns and flamethrowers. Engineers are repairing blasted bridges and building new pontoon bridges to carry tanks across the river. Lower left, tanks of various types wait in hiding while on the hill above a radio car coordinates the battle and the supply train waits to move...