XLVII Motorized Corps (Nov.1940-June 1942)
6-651: XLVII Panzer Corps (also: 47th Panzer Corps or XXXXVII. Panzerkorps or XXXXVII Panzer Corps ) was a panzer corps of the German Army in World War II that was formerly designated as XLVII Corps . Various formations of the corps fought in the French campaign of 1940, in the invasion of Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944, and on the Western Front from June 1944 until April 1945. The first formation of
12-695: The XLVII Corps was on 20 June 1940, during the Campaign in France . This formation was shortly thereafter disbanded on 1 July 1940. The corps was formed again as a motorized corps on 25 November 1940 in Military Region XI. The new corps was initially stationed in Germany as part of Army Group C . In May 1941, the corps was subordinated to Panzer Group 2 (later 2nd Panzer Army ) and took part in
18-578: The initial period of the war the panzer corps predecessor, the motorised corps, were grouped into various panzer groups ( Panzergruppen ). Panzer groups were named (i.e. not designated with numbers) during the campaigns in Poland, France, and Greece, they were not used at all in Norway and Denmark in 1940, and numbered 1-4 during the first half year of the war against the Soviet Union . In the last case,
24-740: The invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa , in 1941. On 21 June 1942, the corps was retitled XLVII Panzer Corps. The corps remained on the Russian front until March 1944, when it was stationed in France . In 1944, the corps was transferred to the Western Front . The corps took part in the Mortain offensive, and attacked into the central Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge . The corps
30-680: The war, and existed in the Army , the Waffen-SS and even the Luftwaffe . Those renamed from ordinary motorised corps retained their numbering. Panzer corps underwent transformation as the war went on. Initially they were the main strike force of the Wehrmacht , and consisted of motorised infantry divisions ( ID (mot) ) and panzer divisions . Later in the war it was possible to find panzer corps that consisted solely of infantry divisions. During
36-645: Was retitled Army Group Lüttwitz in January 1945. On 16 April, the corps surrendered with other German troops in the Ruhr Pocket to the U.S. Army . Panzer corps A panzer corps ( German : Panzerkorps ) was an armoured corps type in Nazi Germany 's Wehrmacht during World War II . The name was introduced in 1941, when the motorised corps ( Armeekorps (mot) or AK(mot) ) were renamed to panzer corps. Panzer corps were created throughout
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