LSSAH IN NORMANDY
诺曼底的警卫旗队装甲师
LSSAH started arriving on the Normandy front in the last week of June, being regrouped (aside from the units left in Belgium) on July 1st only. The division was engaged in small Kampfgruppen, as “firemen”, in the Caen sector for most of July: against the Canadian at Carpiquet on July 5th (Operation Windsor) or the British Тanks near the Bourguebus-Verrières ridge on July 18th (Operation Goodwood).
警卫旗队在6月的最后一周抵达诺曼底,在7月1日重组。该师作为小股战斗群,在卡昂区域作为救火队参加了7月的战斗:7月5日在卡皮奎机场和加拿大部队交火,7月18日在Bourguebus-Verrières和英军装甲部队交火。
The situation changed for LSSAH with the successful American breakthrough in the Saint-Lô sector (Operation Cobra) on July 25th. Alongside several other (or part of) Panzerdivisions, it was moved against the Americans and ordered to counter-attack. Despite losses, LSSAH was still powerful on paper, hАVing received numerous replacement Тanks. Yet Unternehmen Lüttich, started on August 7th, soon bogged down and turned into the death throes of the Panzerwaffe in the West.
7月25日,警卫旗队的境况因美国人在圣洛的突破而改变。警卫旗队和其他友军部队得到了阻止美军并发动反击的命令。纸面上,警卫旗队的实力仍然十分可观,他们接收了不少补充坦圌克。8月7日的莫尔坦反攻宣告了西线装甲战的死刑。
LSSAH retreated East with the rest of the German armies in Normandy trapped in the Falaise pocket. It had maintained enough discipline to be used as the core of the armored Kampfgruppe created to spearhead the breakout from the pocket. Losses in Normandy amounted to most of the division’s vehicLЕS & artillery guns, as well as 5 to 6,000 men out of an authorized strength of 19,000. It was during the breakthrough that Theodor Wisch was severely wounded to the legs, requiring both to be amputated. Command of the division passed to Wilhelm Mohnke.
警卫旗队和其他在法莱斯口袋被包围的德军部队一道向东撤退,并被作为突围的核心战斗群使用。在诺曼底该师损失了大部分的车辆和火炮,损失了一万九千人建制中的五六千人。突围行动中,Theodor Wisch腿部受伤,指挥权被交给了Wilhelm Mohnke。