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49:15th Panzer Division Unit insignia
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1198:Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
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275:33 Combat Engineer Battalion
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166:North African Campaign
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1299:26th Panzer Division
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461:Maximilian von Herff
375:21st Panzer Division
290:15th Panzer Division
33:15th Panzer Division
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1235:Ernst-Günther Baade
1216:Willibald Borowietz
654:Mitcham, p. 126–128
437:Commanding officers
394:Operation Battleaxe
298:15. Panzer-Division
225:15. Panzer-Division
38:15. Panzer-Division
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1121:2 Das Reich
1054:Panzer Lehr
954:20th – 27th
889:10th – 19th
753:Bad Nauheim
487:Erwin Menny
306:German Army
233:Parent unit
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1318:Categories
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379:Royal Navy
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227:(May 1941)
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184:Commanders
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345:Panzer II
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310:Wehrmacht
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