282nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
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282nd Infantry Division |
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| active | March 1, 1943 to October 9, 1944 |
| Country |
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| Armed forces | Wehrmacht |
| Armed forces | army |
| Type | Infantry division |
| structure | See outline |
| Installation site | Cherbourg |
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| list of | Commanders |
The 282nd Infantry Division was a major military unit of the Wehrmacht .
Division history
On March 1, 1943, the 282nd ID from parts of the 165th and 182nd Reserve Divisions was set up in Cherbourg in occupied France . Shortly afterwards, Army Group D was transferred to Army Group South and transferred from northern France to the Eastern Front near Kharkov in the Ukraine , where the Wehrmacht was in defensive battles against the advancing Red Army. As part of the 8th Army , the 282nd Infantry Division fought on the Dnepr and near Kirovgrad . In January 1944 there was a reclassification to a "Division new type 44". During Operation Jassy-Kishinev , the 282nd Infantry Division was destroyed together with the entire Army Group of Southern Ukraine in the so-called "Pruth Battle" and formally dissolved on October 9, 1944. The remnants were integrated into the 76th ID and 15th ID .
Commanders
- March to August 15, 1943 Lieutenant General Wilhelm Kohler
- August 15, 1943 until unknown Major General Hermann Frenking
structure
- Grenadier Regiment 848
- Grenadier Regiment 849
- 850 Grenadier Regiment
- 282nd Artillery Regiment
- Engineer Battalion 282
- Field Replacement Battalion 282
- Panzerjäger detachment 282
- Fusilier Battalion 282
- News Department 282
- Resupply Troops 282
Web links
- 200th through 370th German Infantry, Security, and Panzer Grenadier Divisions. Organizations and Histories 1939-1945 ( Memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 461 kB), Nafziger Collection, Combined Armed Research Library.
Remarks
- ↑ Cf. Georg Tessin : Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in the Second World War 1939–1945. Volume 9. The Land Forces 281-370 . Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1174-9 . P. 5