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Sturmgeschütz Units 90 - 197

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 90

Nov 42 - formed from 1./Sturmgeschütz-Abt. 242 and sent to Africa (6x StuG III F/8  2 StuGs lost in transit from Sicily to Tunisia)

1942-43 Attached to 90th Light Afrika Division; Fallschirm Regiment Barenthin and Fallschirm Brigade Ramcke

May 43 destroyed in Tunisia.

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 107

Mar 45 - XIII SS Corps, 1st Army, Army Group G, Italy

Lehr- Abteilung II Burg

Sturmgeschütz-Lehr-Brigade II

Sturmartillerie-Lehr-Brigade 111

Jan 45 – Formed from personal from Sturmgeschützschule Burg 191, 909 and 1.-3. leFH-Batterie

Apr 45 - 33 StuG III, 9 StuH 42 and 5 JgdPz IV/70

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 177

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 177 (Feb 44)

Panzerjäger-Abteilung 69 (Aug 44)

Aug 41 - Formed at Jüterbog with three batteries

Sep 41 - Transferred to Russia. Arrived in Smolensk and assigned to XII Corps, 4th Army, Army Group Center

Mar 42 - Refitted at Mogilev with long-barreled StuGs and then transferred to Belgorod

Mar 42 - 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center

Aug 42 - Transferred to the Stalingrad area

Nov 42 - XIV Panzer Corps, 6th Army, Army Group B (less one battery assigned to VIII Corps)

Jan 43 - Destroyed at Stalingrad

Mar 43 - Reformed at Artillerie-Schule II, Jüterbog (by redesignating of StuG-Brig 911) with three batteries

Apr 43 - Transferred to the Orel area, Russia

Jul 43 - XLI Panzer Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center (Orel) (22 StuG III and 9 StuH 42)

Nov 43 - IX Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Feb 44 – Redesginated Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 177 and attached to 3. Kavallerie-Brigade

Jul 44 – XXIII Corps, Second Army, Army Group Center

Aug 44 - Reorganized as Panzerjäger-Abteilung 69 (3. Kavallerie-Brigade)

Sturmartillerie-Abteilung 184

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 184 (Feb 41)

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 184 (Feb 44)

Heeres-Sturmartillerie-Brigade 184 (Jun or Oct 44)

Aug 40 - formed at Zinna near Jüterbog with three batteries

Sep 40 - transferred to France

Jan 41 - transferred to Kolmar in the Warthegau (Poland)

Feb 41 - transferred to Austria

Apr 41 - participated in the invasion of Yugoslavia as part of Heeresgruppe Weichs

Apr/May 41- transferred to Austria and then to Lötzen, East Prussia and later to the Suwalki area of Poland

Jun 41 -VIII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Jul/Aug 41 - 9th Army, Army Group Center and XXXX Corps (mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Center

Sep 41 - XXXX Corps (mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Center

Sep 41 - 9th Army and 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center

Oct 41- transferred to Jüterbog for refitting (less its 1. Batterie)

Dec 41 - 9th Army, Army Group Center

Jan 42 - 1. Batterie attached to Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 189; and replaced by Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 666

Jan 42 - ordered to transfer to the Kholm area

Feb 42 XXXIX Corps (mot.), 16th Army, Army Group North with only Stab and 2 batteries (later 3 batteries plus another rebuilding)

Mar 42 - XXXIX Corps (mot.), 16th Army, Army Group North less 3./ assigned to X Corps, 16th Army

Jun 42 - XXXIX Corps (mot.), 16th Army, Army Group North less 1./ assigned to II Corps, 16th Army and 2./ assigned to X Corps, 16th Army.  Summer 42 transferred to the

Jul 42 – Transferred to 30th Inf. Div., II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North (Demyansk Pocket)

Mar 43 - evacuated with the rest of II Corps from the Demyansk Pocket.

Apr 43 - ordered to Haanja, Estonia for refitting

Jun 43 - transferred back to the front, assigned to II. Corps (9 short-barrel , 24 long-barrel StuG IIIs)

Nov 43 - attached to 58th Infantry Division, L. Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

Feb 44 - Armeeabteilung Narwa, Army Group North

Mar 44 - 18th Army, Army Group North

Apr 44 - XXVIII Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

Nov 44 - refitting near Burg

Dec 44 - II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North, Kurland Pocket

Early 45 - transferred to Army Group Vistula without equipment

Apr 45 - assigned to 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Vistula (3 StuG III, 8 StuH 42 operational)

Sturmartillerie-Abteilung 185

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 185 (Feb 41)

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 185 (Feb 44)

Heeres-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 185 (Jul 44)

Aug 40 - formed at Jüterbog with three batteries

Nov 40 - moved to Braunsberg and Heiligenbeil, East Prussia

Jun 41 - I Corps, 18th Army, Army Group Center

Jul 41 - XXVI Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

Aug 41 - XXVI Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North (less 1 battery attached to Kampfgruppe Friedrich)

Oct 41 - XXXVIII Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

Nov 41 - I Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Dec 41 - I Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

Jan 42 - 18th Army Reserve, Army Group North (less one battery assigned to XXVI Corps, 18th Army)

Jul 42 - 18th Army, Army Group North

Oct 42 - 3. Batterie re-equipped with StuH 42

Nov 42 - LIX Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Feb/May 43 - refitted at Mogilev

Jul 43 - XXIII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center at Orel, (27 StuG III, 5 StuH 42)

Jun 44 - XXXIX Panzer Corps, Fourth Army, Army Group Center

 Aug 44 - 4th Army, Army Group Center (17 StuG III and 5 StuH 42 operational)

Sep 44 - Cavalry Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Oct 44 - XX Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Winter 44-45 - East Prussia

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 189

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 189 (Jun 44)

Heeres- Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 189 (Jul 44)

Jul 41 - formed with three batteries

Aug 41 - moved to East Prussia and then to Russia; assigned to IX Corps, Ninth Army, Army Group Center

Sep 41 - XXXX Corps (mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Center

Sep 41 - 9th Army and 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center

Dec 41 - 9th Army, Army Group Center

Jan 42 - Stab and 2./ 9th Army, Army Group Center; 1./ assigned to XXIII Corps  and 3./ assigned to XXVII Corps Feb 42 - 9th Army, Army Group Center (less 2./ assigned to VI Corps, 9th Army)

Mar 42 - 9th Army, Army Group Center (less 1./ assigned to XXIII Corps  and 2./ assigned to VI Corps)

Apr 42 - XXXXVI Corps (mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Center

May 42 - 9th Army, Army Group Center

Aug 42 - VI Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center (later 2./ attached to 6th Inf.Div.)

Oct 42 - XXVIII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Dec 42 - assigned to 78th Sturm-Division

 Jul 44 - detached from 78th Sturm-Division and ordered to refit in the Magdeburg area

Aug 44 - diverted to Mielau (less 3. Batterie) and organized as Panzerjäger-Abteilung 70, 4. Kavallerie-Brigade.   

Sep 44 - Refit ( less 3./) completed.  3. Batterie continued to Magdeburg and was later renamed 3./Heeres-Stu.Gesch.Brig. 244.

Sturmartillerie-Abteilung 190

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 190 (Feb 41)

leichte Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 190 (Apr 43)

leichte-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 190 (Jan 44)

Oct 40 - formed at Jüterbog with three batteries

Nov 40 - declared ready for combat

Nov 40 - transferred to Lure, France

Jan 41 - arrived in Balaci, Romania

Apr 41 - XXX Corps, 12th Army, the Balkans

Apr/May 41 - participated in the invasion of Greece 15 May 41 ordered from Athens to Romania

Jun 41 - arrived in Bucharest, Romania

Jun 41 - 11th Army Reserves, Army Group South (less 1./ XI Corps, 11st Army)

Jul/Aug 41 - assigned to IX Corps, 11st Army, Army Group South

Jul 41 - XI Corps, 11th Army, Army Group South (less 1./ assigned to XXX Corps)

Sep 41 - XXX Corps, 11th Army, Army Group South (later LIV Corps, 11th Army, Army Group South, less one battery assigned to XXX Corps)

Oct 41 - LIV Corps, 11th Army, Army Group South

Apr 42 - assigned to XXX Corps, 11st Army, Army Group South

Apr/May 42 - 6 long-barreled StuGs received and participated in the attack on Kertch

Jun 42 - LIV Corps, 11th Army, Army Group South, conquest of Sevastopol (6 StuGs with L/43 guns)

Jul 42 - refitting in the Yalta area; transferred to the Kursk area and assigned to 2nd Army

 Aug 42 - 14 long-barreled StuGs arrive

Sep 42 - 12 more long-barreled StuGs arrive; 27 StuGs operational

 Jan 43 - refitting in Treuenbrietzen, reorganized with each batterie having a section of StuH 42s

Mar 43 - 3./ attached to 168th Infantry Division, Corps Raus z.b.V., with one StuG

Jun 43 - returned to the East, Army Group Center reserve (22 StuG III and 9 StuH 42 operational)

Jul 43 - reached Karachev and assigned to 4th Army, Army Group Center

Sep 43 - XXVII Corps, 4th Army, Army Group Center

Nov 43 - transferred to the Vitebsk-Nevel area under 3rd Panzer Army

Feb 44 - transferred to the Kovel area

May 44 - transferred to the Mogilev area, 4th Army, Army Group Center

Sep 44 - XX Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Oct 44 - XXIII Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Nov 44 - ordered to the rear for refitting

Jan 45 -ordered back to the front near Danzig under the Second Army

Sturmartillerie-Abteilung 191

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 191 (Feb 41)

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 191 (Feb 44)

Heeres-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 191

Oct 40 - formed at Jüterbog with three batteries

Jan 41 - transferred to Ploesti, Romania

Mar 41 - transferred to Bulgaria

Apr 41 - XVIII Mountain Corps, 12th Army, the Balkans

Apr 41 - invaded Greece

May 41 - transferred to Olmütz, Czechoslovakia and refitted

Jun 41 - III Panzer Corps, 1st Panzer Gruppe, Army Group South

Jul 41 - LV Corps, 6th Army, Army Group South, later LI Corps, 6th Army, Army Group South

Aug/Sep 41 - 6th Army, NW of Kiev

Sep 41 - LI Corps, 6th Army, Army Group South

Oct 41 - VII Corps, 4th Army, Army Group Center

Dec 41 - transferred to Spas Demenskoye, XX Corps, 4th Army, Army Group Center

Feb 42 - 4th Army (less one battery assigned to XXXX Corps (mot.), 4th Army), Army Group Center

Mar 42 - refitted at Mogilev

Jun 42 - transferred to the Kursk area; VII Corps, 2nd Hungarian Army, Armeegruppe von Weichs

Jul 42 - 1st Panzer Army, Army Group South

Sep 42 - III Panzer Corps, 1st Panzer Army, Army Group A

Jan 43 - transferred to the 17th Army in the Kuban Bridgehead

Apr 43 - refitted at Kertsch

Jul 43 - 17th Army, Army Group A (31 StuG III operational)

Jan 44 - 17th Army, Army Group A, Kertsch Bridgehead

Mar 44 - V Corps, 17th Army Reserve, Army Group A

Apr 44 - V Corps, 17th Army Reserve, Army Group A, Crimea

May 44 - evacuated from the Crimea to Romania

Jun 44 - ordered to Schieratz Training Area, in the Warthegau for refitting

Jul 44 - reinforced with 4./H.Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 201 to four batteries

Aug 44 - 2nd Panzer Army, Yugoslavia.

 Sep 44 – Serbia, 2. Batterie transferred to Altengrabow and assigned to Lehr-Brigade II

Oct 44 - 2nd Panzer Army, Serbia

1945 - Sixth Army (Hungary)

May 45 - Heeresgruppe Ostmark, Army Group South

Sturmartillerie-Abteilung 192

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 192 (Feb 41)

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung Großdeutschland (Apr 42)

Nov 40 - formed with three batteries and transferred to Huta-Dambrova, Poland shortly afterwards

Mar 41 - assigned to XXXXIV Corps, 4th Army, Army Group B

Jun 41 - XII Corps, 4th Army, Army Group Center

Jul 41 - XXXXVII Corps (mot.), 2nd Panzer Group, Army Group Center

Sep 41 - XIII Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Dec 41 - 4th Army, Army Group Center

Feb 42 - 4th Army, Army Group Center (less one battery assigned to XII Corps)

Mar 42 - transferred to Germany and deactivated

Apr 42 - consolidated with Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 640 and 16.(Sturmgeschütz) Kompanie/Infanterie-Regiment Großdeutschland and redesignated as Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung Großdeutschland.   Attached to Inf.Div. (mot.)/Pz.Gren.Div. Großdeutschland

Dec 44 - redesignated II./Panzer-Regiment Brandenburg

Sturmartillerie-Abteilung 197

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 197 (Feb 41)

schwere-Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 197 ( Jan 43)

schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 653 (Apr 43)

Nov 40 - formed with three batteries

Jan 41 - transferred to Brieg in Silesia

May 41 - Attached to 132 ID during invasion of Yugoslavia; transferred to Glatz then Zamosc, Poland

Jun 41 - XXXXVIII Panzer Corps, 1st Panzer Group, Army Group Center

Jul 41 - XXXXIV Corps, 6th Army, Army Group South; later LV Corps, 6th Army, Army Group South

Sep 41 - LV Corps, 17th Army, Army Group South (less one battery assigned to LII Corps)

Nov 41 - Transferred from 6th Army to 11th Army ; assigned to LIV Corps for the initial attacks on Sevastopol; supported 24th Infantry Division during final assault on Sevastopol.

Jul 42 - Transferred to VII Corps, 2nd Army (Voronezh)

Aug 42 - Transferred to LIII Corps, 2nd Panzer Army (Orel) - (received first StuGs with L/48 guns)

Oct 42 - 2nd Panzer Army, Army Group Center

Jan 43 - Transferred equipment to 270 StuG.-Abt. Moved to Jüterbog beginning for conversion to heavy Panzerjägers

Apr 43 - redesignated as schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 653 at Bruck/Leitha

Oct 43 - formed at Neiße with three batteries

Nov 43 - transferred to Tours (Ausbildungs-Stab West)

Dec 43 - transferred to Eastern Front

Oct 44 - LIX Corps, 17th Army, Army Group A

Jan 45 - XXXXVIII Panzer Corps, 4th Panzer Army, Army Group A

Feb 45 - reinforced with “Kampfgruppe Gruber” (formed from Sturmgeschütz-Ersatz und Ausbildung-Abteilung 300 and 3./184

Feb 45 - VIII Corps, 17th Army, Army Group Center

Dec 41 - formed at Neiße from Artillerie-School Command

Apr 43 - redesignated Sturmgeschütz-Ersatz und Ausbildung-Abteilung 300

Feb 45 - used to form “Kampfgruppe Gruber”

Oct 43 - formed at Burg with three batteries (or at Ausbildungs-Stab West at Tours and incorporated remnants of Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 243, destroyed at Stalingrad)

Jan 44 - transferred to Sagan (Silesia)

Feb 44 - transferred to Eastern Front (1./301 to Tarnopol (and later destroyed); remainder of brigade to Proskurov and assigned to First Panzer Army)

Sep 44 - transferred to Slovakia

Oct 44 - transferred to Krakow for refitting (planned formation of 4./301 not carried out)

Jan 45 - returned to combat

Oct 43 - formed at Burg with three batteries without equipment

Fall  43 - transferred to Neiße where it absorbed personnel from Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 742; transferred to Ausbildungs-Stab West (Tours) where it was assigned 30 Sturmgeschütz III and 12 Sturmhaubitze 42

Jan 44 - transferred to northern Russia; entered combat 25 Jan 43

Mar 44 - XXXVIII Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

May 44 - L Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Jun 44 - Transferred to Finland 23 Jun 44; Armeeabteilung Narwa;  4. Batterie authorized

Jul 44 - 4. Batterie added

Sep 44 – withdrawn from Finland

Nov 44 - 6th Army (Hungary)

Jan 45 - IV SS-Panzer Corps, 6th Army (Armeegruppe Balck), Army Group South (45 vehicles)

Apr 45 - III Panzer Corps, 6th Army, Army Group South

Nov 43 - formed at Burg with three batteries; transferred to Ausbildungs-Stab West (Tours)

Mar 44 – transferred to Eastern Front destroyed in Tarnopol

Apr 44 - reformed in Brzezany area (operational July 1944)

Nov 43 - formed at Burg with three batteries (or at Tours from cadre of 3./184)

Mar 44 - transferred to Eastern Front (Army Group South); 2./322 committed to Tarnopol, remainder of brigade to Brody

May/Jul 44 - Army Group North Ukraine, Southeastern Poland

Oct 44 - LVI Panzer Corps, 4th Panzer Army, Army Group A

Jan 45 - disbanded and remnants merged into Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 210 & to Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 911

Apr 43 - formed at Neiße, from cadre of 1./912 (WK VIII) with three batteries

Sep 43 - transferred to Altengrabow

Nov 43 - transferred to Ausbildungs-Stab West (Tours)

Apr 44 - transferred to Eastern Front (Romania); attached to Romanian Guards Infantry Division, V Romanian Corps, 4th Romanian Army, Army Group South Ukraine

Aug 44 - Romanian VI Corps, 4th Romanian Army, Army Group South Ukraine, Aug 44

Fall 42 - formed in Uman with Italian assault guns; destroyed near Stalingrad (may confused with Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 393)

May 43 - formed at Neiße with three batteries as “Kommando Grief”

Nov 43 - transferred to Ausbildungs-Stab West (Tours)

Mar 44 - received assault guns

May 44 - 45 vehicles

Jun 44 - at Narbonne (19 StuG IIIs, 9 Sturmhaubitze 42s)

Jul 44 - fully equipped with 33 StuG IIIs and 12 Sturmhaubitze 42s; entered combat in Normandy with 1. Batterie

Aug 44 - reported strength of 20 assault guns

Oct 44 - LXXXI Corps, 7th Army, Army Group B (10 operational assault guns; 13 in repair); LXVII Corps, 15th Army, Army Group H

Nov 44 - attached to 116th Panzer Division, LXXIV Corps, 5th Panzer Army, Army Group B, Hürtgen Forest battle

Dec 44 - 15th Army reserve, Army Group B

Mar 45 - Division Bayerlein, 15th Army, Army Group B

Fall 42 - formed; redesignated as Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 393 when assigned to Sturmbataillon 393

Mar 45 - LXXXIX Corps, 1st Army, Heeresgruppe G

Mar 45 - LXXXIX Corps, 1st Army, Heeresgruppe G

Fall 42 - formed as Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 345, but redesignated as 393 when assigned to Sturmbataillon 393; served in 8th Italian Army sector

Feb 43 - attached to 298th Infantry Division

Jul 43 - Armeekorps Raus zbV, ArmeeAbteilung Kempf, Army Group South  (12 StuG III)

Aug 43 - 8th Army, Army Group South (7 StuGs under repair)

Nov 43 - disbanded

Mar 44 - formed at Schweinfurt with three batteries (or formed at Neiße, transferred to Tours)

Apr 44 - formation complete;  transferred to Jutland and issued assault guns

Jun 44 - transferred to Daugvapils area and assigned to Army Group North

Aug 44 - 18th Army, Army Group North

Sep 44 - XXVIII Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North (less 1./) assigned to II. Corps, Armeeabteilung Narwa

May 45 - 16th Army, Army Group North, Courland Pocket

Mar 44 - formed at Deutsch-Eylau from 18. Artillerie-Division without vehicles

Apr 44 - transferred to Ausbildungs-Stab West (Tours)

Jun 44 - incorporated Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 741 and received vehicles

Jul 44 - strength of 31 StuG IIIs

Aug 44 - LXXXIV Corps, Normandy (31 StuG IIIs); entered combat near Vire

Sep 44 - attached to 12th Infantry Division, LXXXI Corps, 7th Army, Army Group B

Oct 44 - LXXXI Corps, 7th Army, Army Group B

Dec 44 - LXXXIV Corps, 7th Army, Army Group B; later LXXIV Corps, 15th Army (20 StuG IIIs)

Jan 45 - XXXIX Panzer Corps, Alsace-Lorraine

Jan 43 – formed; served in Russia

Mar 43 - disbanded

May 44 - formed at Neiße with three batteries

Jul 44 - disbanded and used to form Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 1550, 1551, 1552, 1553, 1558, 1559

Mar 44 - formed in Denmark with three batteries; transferred to Ausbildungs-Stab West (Tours)

Jul 44 - disbanded and used to form Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 1550, 1551, 1552, 1553, 1558, 1559

Mar 44 - formed in Posen

Jul 44 - disbanded (formation not completed)

May 1944 - formed in Posen, but formation not completed

Sturmgeschütz-Ersatz-Abteilung 400

Sturmgeschütz-Ausbildungs-Abteilung 400

Sturmgeschütz-Ersatz und Ausbildungs-Abteilung 400

1942 - formed at Demba (Poland)

1943 - transferred to Denmark (Stab at Hadersleben)

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 428

Feb 42 - formed at Jüterbog

May 42 - disbanded

Sturmgeschütz-Ersatz und Ausbildungs-Abteilung 500

Aug 43 - formed at Burg-bei-Magdeburg

Sep 43 - “given its oath”

Nov 43 - transferred to Posen

Artillerie-Abteilungstab z.b.V. 600

Apr 40 - formed at Jüterbog from VI./Artillerie-Lehr-Regiment Jüterbog for Operation Sealöwe with Sturmgeschütze Batterie 659, 600, 665

Jun 41 - accompanied Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 659 during Barbarossa, ambushed and “ceased to exist”

Stab Sturm-Artillerie-Abteilung 600

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 600

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 600 (Feb 44)

Heeres-Sturmartillerie-Brigade 600 (Fall 1944)

Jul 40 - transfer from 2nd Army, Army Group C begins

Jun 41 - II Corps, Army Group North with Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 659, 660, 666

Jul 41 - II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Aug 41 - I Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Sep 41 - 9th Army and 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center

Oct 41 - XXXXI Corps (mot.), 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center with Batteries 660 and 665

Jan 42 - XXXXI Corps (mot.), 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center

Feb 42 - XXXXI Corps (mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Center

Mar 42 - Abteilung formed with three batteries from Sturmgeschütz-Batteries 660 [1. Batterie], 665 [2. Batterie] & 666

May 42 - XXXXI Corps (mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Center

Jul 42 - 2nd Panzer Army, Army Group Center]

Aug 42 - XXXXI Panzer Corps, 2nd Panzer Army, Army Group Center

Oct 42 - LIII Corps, 2nd Panzer Army, Army Group Center

Dec 42 - 2nd Panzer Army, Army Group Center  (less 1./ assigned to LIII Corps 23-31 Dec 42 and 3./ assigned to XXXV Corps from 31 Dec 42)

Mar 43 - reorganized from schwere to leichte Sturmgeschütz Abteilung

Spring 43 - transferred without vehicles to Jüterbog to be rebuilt

Jul 43 - Army Group Center reserve (22 StuG III, 9 StuH 42 on-hand)

Jun 44 - Kholm

Nov 44 - 3./ attached to 4th Panzer Division, 18th Army, Army Group North (9 StuGs)

May 45 - Courland Pocket

Sturmgeschütz-Ersatz und Ausbildung-Abteilung 600

Jul 43 - formed at Neiße with four batteries and transferred to Deutsch-Eylau

1945 remnants at Altengrabow

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 640

Nov 39 - formed at Artillerie-Lehr-Regiment, Jüterbog

Apr 40 - attached to Infanterie-Regiment Großdeutschland

Jun 40 - assigned to Infanterie-Regiment GD as 16./

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 659

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 287 (Mar 42)

Jan 40 - ordered formed [Spielberger: served in France under XIII Corps.]

Feb 41 - transferred from France to J&uuuml;terbog for refitting

Jun 41 - Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 600, II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Aug 41 - I Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Oct 41 - II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Jan 42 - 16th Army, Army Group North; transferred from Russia to Jüterbog for refitting

Feb 42 - X Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Apr 42 - X Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Jun 42 - Korück 584, 16th Army, Army Group North

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 660

Apr 40 - formed at Zinna

May 40 - transfered to France

Feb 41 - transferred to East Prussia

Jun 41 - Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 600, II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Oct 41 - XXXXI Corps (mot.), 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center under Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 600

Nov 41 - II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Dec 41 - XXXXI Corps (mot.), 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center under Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 600

Jan 42 - LVI Corps (mot.), 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center

Feb 42 - LVI Corps (mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Center

Mar 42 -combined with Sturmgeschütz-Batterien 665 and 666 to form leichte Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 600

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 665

Apr 40 - formed at Jüterbog

Jun 40 - transferred to Saarbrücken and then to France

Jul 40 - transferred to Mons, Belgium

Jun 41 - XXVIII Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Oct 41 - XXXXI Corps (mot.), 3rd Panzer Group, Army Group Center under Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 600

Jan 42 - LVI Corps (mot.), 3rd Panzer Army, Army Group Center

Feb 42 - LVI Corps (mot.), 9th Army, Army Group Center

Mar 42 - combined with Sturmgeschütz-Batterien 660 and 666 to form leichte Sturmgeschütz Abteilung 600

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 666

May 40 - formed at Zinna

Jul 40 - declared combat ready; served in France

Aug 40 - transferred to Ghent

Feb 41 transferred to East Prussia

Jun 41 - Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 600, II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Aug 41 - I Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Sep 41 - I Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Oct 41 - II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Dec 41 - II Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Jan 42 - 16th Army, Army Group North

Jan 42 - X Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North (partly rebuilding [Auffrischung])

May 42 - assigned to Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 184 as its 1./ Batterie in the Demyansk Pocket

Feb 43 - relieved of its assignment to Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 184 and transferred, without equipment, to Jüterbog where it was disbanded. Most personnel used as cadre for Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 912

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 667

Jul 40 - formation completed at Zinna and transferred to France shortly afterwards

Dec 40 - transferred to Döberitz

Jun 41 - XXVIII Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Jul 41 - X Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Aug 41 - XXVIII Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Oct 41 - XXVIII Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

Nov 41 - XXVIII Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

Mar 42 - withdrawn back to Zinna and re-organized as 1./Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 667

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 667

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 667 (Feb 44)

Heeres-Sturmartillerie-Brigade 667 (Jun 44)

Jun 42 - formed at Jüterbog from Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 667 with four (initally, five) batteries

Jul 42 - transferred to the Rzhev area of Russia

Aug 42 - 2./ (later 1./ & 3./) attached to 1st Panzer Division, XXXIX Panzer Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Oct 42 - XXVIII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Nov 42 - 2./ assigned to XXXIX Panzer Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Jul 43 - 3./ Batterie withdrawn and replaced;  4th Army, Army Group Center (3 short and 28 long-barrel StuG III)

Jun 44 - two Panzer-Batteries of Panzer II Ausf. L added

Jul 44 - almost wiped out during the Soviet summer offensive

Fall 44 - remnants consolidated with remnants of Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 245 and rebuilt

Sep/Oct 44 - the Netherlands, assigned to Kampfgruppe Chill

Nov 44 - Panzer II Ausf. L’s withdrawn.

Dec 44 - LXXXIV Corps, 7th Army, Army Group B; 6th Panzer Army, the Ardennes ( 5 StuG IIIs)

Jan 45 - XXXIX Panzer Corps, Alsace-Lorraine

Sturmgeschütz-Ersatz-Abteilung 700

1945 - formed by Sturmgeschutze-Schule Berg, later Altengrabow

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 741

 Jan 43 - formation begun in Finland from volunteers from independent panzer platoons 217, 218, 219 and Armee Lapland

Feb 43 - shipped to Germany

May 43 -batterie formally established at Jüterbog

May 43 - shipped from Gotenhafen for XVIII Mountain Corps in northern Finland

Jul 43 - 20th Mountain Army, Finland (10 StuG III on-hand)

Oct 43 - completed unloading at Danzig; later transferred to Wilno and assigned to 18th Artillerie Division

Dec 43 - unloaded at Kasatin, Ukraine and moved to Belaya Tserkov

Mar 44 - encircled by the Soviets as part of 1st Panzer Army

Apr 44 - withdrawn, without equipment, to Saarbrücken

Jul 44 - disbanded, absorbed by Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 394 and remaining personnel used as replacements

Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 742

Jan 43 - formation begun in Finland from volunteers from independent panzer platoons 217, 218, 219 and Armee Lapland

Feb 43 - shipped to Germany

May 43 - batterie formally established at Jüterbog; shipped from Gotenhafen for XVIII Mountain Corps in northern Finland

Jul 43 - 20th Mountain Army, Finland (10 StuG III on-hand)

Oct 43 - completed unloading at Danzig; later transferred to Neiße, absorbed by Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 303

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 901

Listed in German OB for 1945; existence questionable

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 902

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 902 (14 Feb 44)

Jan 44 - formed as "Lehr-Abteilung" in Western France from the Sturmgeschütz school at Tours

Jan 44 - 2 batteries arrived in Tours; Stab in Camp du Ruchard

Jun 44 - equipped with 25 operational StuG IIIs and 6 more in maintenance

Jul 44 – in Normandy (30 combat-ready StuG IIIs and 1 more in maintenance); total losses by end of Jul 44 (Normandy) were 3 StuG IIIs totally destroyed

Aug 44 - strength reported as 1 StuG III and 3 Sturmhaubitze 42 combat-ready and 7 more StuG IIIs in maintenance

Sep 44 - 10 StuGs on strength, assigned to 19th Army

Oct 44 - LXXXI Corps, 7th Army, Army Group B (19 combat-ready StuGs; 1 in maintenance)

Dec 44 - Corps Feldt, 1st Parachute Army, Army Group H; later LXXIV Corps, Fifteenth Army, Army Group B (11 StuG and 7 StuH 42)

1945 - Fifth Panzer Army (lower Rhine)

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 904

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 904 (14 Feb 44)

Dec 42 - formed at Jüterbog with three batteries

 Jan 43 - redesignated Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 270; but order soon cancelled

Feb 43 - transferred to Eastern Front; attached to 4 Panzer-Division, Army Group Center

Jul 43 - XLVII Panzer Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center (Orel) with 31 StuG III (21 vehicles operational and 10 under repair)

Aug 43 - one battery attached to 45th Infantry Division, XX Corps

Nov 43 - 1./ assigned to LVI Panzer Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Jun 44 - VIII Corps, Second Army, Army Group Center

Jul 44 - attached to 4th Panzer Division, Gruppe Harteneck, 2nd Army, Army Group Center (14 StuG)

Sep 44 - Cavalry Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Oct 44 - Cavalry Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

1945 - not listed in OB

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 905

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 905 (Feb 44)

Heeres-Sturmartillerie-Brigade 905 (Fall 44)

Dec 42 - formed at Jüterbog, with three batteries

Mar 43 - arrives in 7th Army's sector

Apr 43 - transferred from 7th Army, France

Jul 43 - Corps Raus, Armee Abteilung Kempf, Army Group South (23 StuG III and 9 StuH 42; 23 vehicles operational and 8 under repair)

Aug 43 - attached to 282nd Infantry Division, XLII Corps, 8th Army, Army Group South (2 StuGs operational 21 under repair)

Jan 44 - assigned to XI Corps, 8th Army, Army Group South, Kirovograd; later Fourth Rumanian/Eighth Army, Army Group South Ukraine

Aug 44 - Eighth Army, Army Group South Ukraine

1945 Fifth Panzer Army (Eifel and Rhine), after rebuilding

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 907

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 907 (Feb 44)

Jan 44 - formed at Schweinfurt

Jan 44 - transferred to Italy and received StuGs at Ferentino

Feb 44 - Anzio Bridgehead, Tenth Army

May 44 - Monte Cassino

Feb 45 - XIV Panzer Corps, 10th Army, Army Group Ligurien

Mar 45 - XIV Panzer Corps, 14th Army (20 StuG and 10 StuH)

Apr 45 - XIV Panzer Corps, 14th Army, Army Group Ligurien

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 908

Jan 43 - formed at Jüterbog, but only 1./908 raised; personnel transferred to Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 184 and Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 908 disbanded

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 909

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 909 (Feb 44)

Jan 43 - formed at Neiße with three batteries

Apr 43 - in action near Kursk

Jul 43 - XLVI Panzer Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center at Orel (31 StuG III, of which 4 have the short 75mm gun)

Aug 43 11 StuG III operational; 8 in repair

Late Aug 43 - attached to 4th Panzer Division, XXXV Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Jan 44 - 3./ attached to 4th Panzer Division, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Apr 44 - I Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Jun 44 - I Corps, Sixteenth Army, Army Group North at Polotsk (21 StuG III (16 operational), 8 StuH 42 (7 operational)

Jul 44 - Refitting, Third Panzer Army, Army Group Center; 20 StuG III (18 operational), 8 StuH 42 (8 operational);   received 4./909

Sep 44 - Gruppe Gen Kleffel, 16th Army, Army Group North

Oct 44 - XX Corps, 2nd Army, Army Group Center

Jan 45 - 1./909 detached and later redesignated 1./111

1945 - East Prussia

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 911

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 911 (Feb 44)

Heeres-Sturmartillerie-Brigade 911 (Dec 44)

Feb 43 - formed at Neiße and later transferred to Jüterbog, with three batteries

Mar 43 - 1./911 detached to Corsica/Sardinia and replaced

Mid-Mar 43 - transferred to the Kharkov-Poltava area of Russia

Jul 43 - XXXXVIII Panzer Corps, 4th Panzer Army, Army Group South (22 StuG III and 9 StuH 42)

Jul 43 - 25 vehicles operational and 12 under repair

Jan 44 - assigned to XXXXVII Panzer Corps, 8th Army, Army Group South, Kirovograd

Jun 44 - Sixth Army, Army Group South Ukraine (Kishniev)

Aug 44 - XXXXIV Corps, Sixth Army, Army Group South Ukraine; destroyed in Romania and reformed at Lüneberg (Lohburg) with 3 StuG batteries and one Infanterie-Begleit Batterie

Dec 44 - assigned to Führer-Grenadier-Brigade (Cottbus) after rebuilding with 34 StuGs

Jan 45 - attached to Führer-Grenadier Brigade with three batteries (10 StuGs each)

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 912

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 912 (Feb 44)

Heeres-Sturmartillerie-Brigade 912 (Winter 44/45)

Mid-Feb 43 - formed at Schweinfurt and transferred to Jüterbog for fitting out

Apr 43 - transferred to the Leningrad area of the Eastern Front

Jul 43 - 18th Army, Army Group North (22 StuG III and 9 StuH 42)

Aug 43 - XXVI Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North

May 44 - VI SS-Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Jun 44 - X Corps, 16th Army, Army Group North

Sep 44 - Gruppe Gen Kleffel, 16th Army, Army Group North

Dec 44 - attached to 11th Infantry Division, X Corps, 18th Army, Army Group North, Kurland Pocket

May 45 - XXXVIII Corps, 18th Army, Army Group Kurland

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 913

Formed beginning of 1943 at Jüterbog with three batteries; but disbanded 1943

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 914

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 914 (Sep 44)

Jan 44 - formed at Posen, with three batteries

Feb 44 - transferred to Italy; received its Italian StuGs in Verona; redesignated Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 720

Sep 44 - 10th Army, Italy; still equipped with Italian StuGs

Feb 45 - LI Corps, 14th Army, Army Group Ligurien; equipped with German StuGs (13 StuG and 10 StuH

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 915

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 916

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 918

The above units were formed Winter 1942/43 with three batteries, and disbanded Summer 1943; they may be a ‘paper unit’ that never actually existed.

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade I

Sturmgeschütz-Lehr-Brigade 920 (Sep 44)

Panzer-Vernichtungs-Abteilung 303 (Feb 45)

Sturmgeschütz-Lehr-Brigade 920 (Feb 45)

Jul 44 - formed at Sturmgeschütz-Schule at Burg as Sturmgeschütz-Lehr-Brigade I with four batteries, but 4./Batterie attached to Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 209 and sent to Eastern Prussia.  Remainder of brigade sent to Poland, south of Warsaw

Sep 44 - VIII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Center

Oct 44 - 9th Army, Army Group Center

Jan 45 - VIII Corps, 9th Army, Army Group Vistula; destroyed during the Soviet Vistula-Oder offensive

Feb 45 - temporarily designated Panzer-Vernichtungs-Abteilung 303 when attached to Infanterie-Division 303 "Döberitz", but then returned to old designation

1945 - Oder River region

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 1170

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 1170

Mar 45 - formed with three gun batteries and escort battery; 1./1170 formed from remnants of StuG.Brig 322; 4./1170 formed from remnants of StuG.Brig 278; remnants of StuG.Brig 249 also absorbed

Apr 45 - attached to Division "Scharnhorst"; XX Corps, 12th Army

Heeres-Sturmartillerie-Brigade-Stab 1178

Apr 45 - formed; still forming at the end of the war

Probably confused with 1170 as that unit had the structure of a Heeres-Sturmartillerie-Brigade

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 1180

1945 - Deployed in Budapest-Hungary

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung Großdeutschland

Apr 42 - formed by re-designation of Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung 192 . Consolidated with Sturmgeschütz-Batterie 640 and 16.(Sturmgeschütz) Kompanie/Infanterie-Regiment Großdeutschland and redesignated as Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung Großdeutschland.   Attached to Inf.Div. (mot.)/Pz.Gren.Div. Großdeutschland

Dec 44 - redesignated II./Panzer-Regiment Brandenburg

Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung Burg

 Dec 43 - formed in Burg from 1st Lehr-Batterie/Sturmgeschützschule Burg

Jul 44 - Kampfgruppe Weidling, Fourth Army, Army Group Center

Sep 44 - VI Corps, 4th Army, Army Group Center

Sturmartillerieschule

Sturmgeschützschule Burg (1944)

Jul 43 - formed at Zinna bei Burg from Artillerie-Schule II at Jüterbog with "Aufstellungsstab," "Lehrstab" and "Sturmartillerie-Lehr-Abteilung" with three batteries

1944 - Sturmgeschützschule Burg with "Lehrgangen I-V and Sturmgeschutz-Lehr-Abteilung

Aug 44 - 4th Army, Army Group Center (5 StuG III operational; 5 in repair)

Sturmgeschütz-Lehrbrigade III

Sturmgeschütz-Brigade "Schill"

Apr 45 - formed from Sturmgeschützschule Burg and initially deployed against the Americans. Later reinforced and transferred to the Eastern Front as part of Division "Schill"