The LXXVI Panzer Corps (''LXXVI Panzerkorps'', 76th Armoured Corps) was a

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. Pan ...

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during

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. The headquarters were formed in France under Army Group D on 29 June 1943 as LXXVI Army Corps but renamed a month later. In August it shipped to Italy to become part of 10th Army. It spent the rest of the war in Italy fighting in the Italian Campaign mainly under 10th Army but with short periods from February 1944 ( Battle of Anzio) and January 1945 ( Spring 1945 offensive in Italy) under

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. The Corps was commanded for most of its active fighting by General Traugott Herr.

Order of battle

In 1943 the corps included: * 1st Parachute Division *

26th Panzer Division 23rd Infantry Division The German 23rd Infantry Division (''23. Infanterie-Division''), later the 26th Panzer Division, was a military unit operational during World War II. It was organized along standard lines for a German infantry division. ...

* 65th Infantry Division * 90th Panzergrenadier Division On 25 August 1944 the composition of the corps was:, (Appendix B). * 1st Parachute Division * 278th Infantry Division * 71st Infantry Division * 5th Mountain Division * 162nd Turkestan Division

Commanding officers

* Lieutenant-General (''Generalleutnant'') Traugott Herr, 23 July - 31 August 1943 (acting) * General of Armoured troops (''General der Panzertruppe'') Traugott Herr, 1 September 1943 – 28 February 1944 *Lieutenant-General Dietrich von Choltitz, 28 February 1944 – 15 April 1944 (acting) *General of Armoured troops Traugott Herr, 15 April 1944 – 23 November 1944 *Lieutenant-General

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, 24 November - 16 December 1944 (acting) *General of Armoured troops Traugott Herr, 17–26 December 1944 *Lieutenant-General

Gerhard Graf von Schwerin Gerhard Helmut Detleff Graf von Schwerin (23 June 1899 – 29 October 1980) was a German General der Panzertruppe during World War II. World War I Gerhard von Schwerin was born to a Prussian aristocratic family in 1899. His father was a civil ...

, 27 December 1944 - 31 March 1945 (acting) *General of Armoured troops

, 31 March – 25 April 1945 *Lieutenant-General

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, 25 April 1945 – 8 May 1945 (acting)

Area of operations

Source
Lexicon der Wehrmacht
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Axis History Factbook

References

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Axis History Factbook
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