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| unit_name                     = 15th Panzergrenadier Division
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| caption                       = 15th Panzergrenadier Division, 1943–1945
| country                       = ((flag|Nazi Germany))
| type                          = [[Panzergrenadier]]
| role                          = [[Armoured warfare]]<br />[[Maneuver warfare]]<br />[[Raid (military)|Raiding]]
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| dates                         = July 1943 – 8 May 1945
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*[[Allied invasion of Sicily|Sicily]]
*[[Allied invasion of Italy|Salerno]]
*[[Battle of Monte Cassino|Cassino]]
*[[Operation Shingle|Anzio]]
*[[Battle of the Bulge]]
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'''15th Panzergrenadier Division''' was a mobile division of the German Army in World War II.

==Combat History==
===Sicily===
In July 1943 a new 15th Panzergrenadier Division, commanded by ''[[Generalleutnant]]'' [[Eberhard Rodt]], was formed by redesignating the Sicily Division and incorporated remnants of the former [[15th Panzer Division]], which had been assigned to North Africa but remained in Sicily due to the collapse of the Afrika Korps.
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J14874, Sizilien, MG-Stellung.jpg|thumb|left|Machine gun position in Sicily.]]
It was not long before it saw action again, this time in Sicily. As the Germans retreated from western Sicily (as a result of the Allied invasion, code-named [[Operation Husky]]), they halted and began setting up defences in the vicinity of the town of [[Troina]] along Highway 120, perched high on the hilltops. This was to become a linchpin of the [[Etna Line]]. In pursuit was the [[US 1st Infantry Division]], nicknamed "The Big Red One", commanded by Major General [[Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr.|Terry Allen]]. A six-day battle ensued from August 1–6, 1943, at the end of which, fearing encirclement, the 15th Panzergrenadier retreated down Highway 120 toward [[Cesarò|Cesaro]] and later [[Messina]] to be evacuated from the island.

===Italy===
By August 17, 1943, the 15th Panzergrenadier along with the [[29th Infantry Division (Germany)|29th Infantry]], the [[German 1st Parachute Division|1st Parachute]] and the ''[[Hermann Göring Division|Hermann Göring]] ''Divisions would escape across the [[Strait of Messina]] to the mainland and participate in the [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italian Campaign]]. Beginning on September 9, 1943, the Allied invasion of mainland Italy, (code-named [[Operation Avalanche]]), at [[Salerno]] and along the beaches to the southeast, found the 15th Panzergrenadiers among the principal defenders. On September 11, elements of the [[46th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|British 46th Infantry Division]] encountered stiff resistance from the 15th Panzergrenadier and  ''Hermann Göring'' Divisions around Salerno itself and to the east.
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-576-1847-26A, Italien, Fallschirmjäger auf Spähpanzer.jpg|thumb|Reconnaissance unit from 15th Panzer Grenadier Division travels through Italian town.]]

By mid-November 1943, the 15th Panzergrenadier Division had fallen back to help defend the [[Bernhardt Line]] in the vicinity of [[Mignano]] along Highway 6. On December 7, 1943, two battalions of the 15th Panzergrenadier, commanded by Captain [[Helmut Meitzel]], held strong defensive positions in the town of [[San Pietro Infine]] and on the vitally important and strategic [[Monte Lungo]] to the southwest. Elements of the [[71st Infantry Division (Germany)|71st Infantry Division]], held the German left flank on the heights of [[Monte Sammucro]] to the north, while the [[29th Infantry Division (Germany)|29th Panzergrenadier Division]] held the rear near the town of [[San Vittore del Lazio|San Vittore]], two miles to the northwest. The [[36th Infantry Division (United States)|36th Infantry Division]], commanded by Major General [[Fred L. Walker]], launched flanking attacks on their right, while the [[1st Italian Motorized Group]] attacked the left up [[Monte Lungo]]. The [[Battle of San Pietro Infine]] ensued. After ten days of intense attack and counter-attack, the Allies finally succeeded in gaining the high ground on both flanks. With the advantage lost, the 15th Panzergrenadier and its supporting units fell back to defensive positions in the vicinity of San Vittore in the early hours of December 17; they would hold these positions for the next three weeks.

Between January 20 and 22 1944, two battalions of the 15th Panzergrenadiers repulsed an ill-conceived assault by the [[US 36th Infantry Division]], when the Allies were attempting to establish a [[bridgehead]] in the vicinity of the town of [[Sant' Angelo]], to launch attacks on the [[Gustav Line]] near [[Monte Cassino]].

On May 11, 1944, the Allies launched [[Operation Diadem]] which finally resulted in the collapse of the Gustav Line and the capitulation of the German defences along the [[Winter Line]]. From May 15–19, the 15th Panzergrenadiers fought a retreating battle through the [[Aurunci Mountains]] against the [[3rd Algerian Infantry Division|3rd Algerian Infantry]] and [[4th Moroccan Mountain Division]]s of the [[French Expeditionary Corps (1943–44)|French Expeditionary Corps]], commanded by General [[Alphonse Juin]].

===North-west Europe===
The 15th Panzergrenadiers fought the rest of the war on the [[Western Front (World War II)|Western Front]]. It fought in the [[Battle of the Bulge]], where it participated in the [[Siege of Bastogne]] and in [[Operation Blockbuster]], serving under the [[First Parachute Army]]. It surrendered to the British at war's end.

==Order of battle (1944)==
* 104. Panzergrenadier Regiment (motorized infantry)
* 115. Panzergrenadier Regiment (motorized infantry)
* 33. Artillery Regiment (motorized)
* 115. Panzer Battalion
* 33. Panzerjäger Battalion
* 115. Panzer Aufklärung Battalion
* 33. Pioneer Battalion (motorized)
* 315. Heer Flak Battalion (motorized)
* Signal, Supply and Support Units

==Commanders==
{| class=wikitable
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!Date!!Commander
|-
|July 1, 1943
| ''Generalleutnant'' [[Eberhard Rodt]]
|-
|October 1943
| ''Generalleutnant'' [[Ernst-Günther Baade]]
|-
|November 20, 1943
| ''Generalleutnant'' [[Eberhard Rodt]]
|-
|September 5, 1944
|''[[Oberst]]'' (Colonel) Karl-Theodor Simon
|-
|October 9, 1944
|''[[Major General|Generalmajor]]'' [[Hans-Joachim Deckert]]
|-
|January 28, 1945
|''Oberst'' Wolfgang Maucke
|}

==War crimes==
The division has been implicated in the [[Bellona, Campania|Bellona]] massacre, [[Campania]], carried out between 6 and 7 October 1943, when 54 civilians were executed.<ref name= "Bellona" >((cite web |url=http://www.straginazifasciste.it/?page_id=38&id_strage=356&lang=en |title=cava di Bellona, 07.10.1943 |website=Atlas of Nazi and Fascist Massacres in Italy |access-date=20 September 2018 |language=it ))</ref><ref name= "fifteenpg" >((cite web |url=http://www.straginazifasciste.it/?page_id=297&ricerca=776&lang=en |title=15. Panzer-Grenadier-Division |website=Atlas of Nazi and Fascist Massacres in Italy |access-date=20 September 2018 |language=it ))</ref>

==References==
((Reflist))

* ((Cite book |last=Atkinson |first=Rick |title=The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 |location=New York |publisher=Henry Holt |isbn=0-8050-6289-0))
((Panzergrenadier divisions of the Wehrmacht))((Nazi war crimes in Italy))

[[Category:German panzergrenadier divisions]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1943]]
[[Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1945]]

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