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Military unit
The
384th Infantry Division
was formed during the winter of 1941/42, as part of the 18th wave. All infantry divisions of this wave, numbers 383 to 389, were referred to as “Rhine Gold” divisions. The 384th was sent to the 3rd Panzer Corps, 1st Panzer Army, just in time to be involved in defensive fighting during the Soviet offensive in the
Second Battle of Kharkov
, early in the summer of 1942. Afterwards, the division took part in the
offensive operations
that led to
Stalingrad
. After the Soviet counteroffensive,
Operation Uranus
, most of the combat elements of the division were split between the
44th
and the 376th Infantry Divisions, but both were surrounded at Stalingrad and destroyed.
The surviving combat troops, in the form of the 2/536th battalion, were allocated to the
9th Panzer Division
to help replace the
panzer grenadiers
in its schutzen brigade. The non-combat elements were set to northern France and the division was rebuilt. This process was completed in late 1943, and the division, minus its
reconnaissance
battalion and 3/384th Artillery Battalion, was again sent to
Ukraine
. After almost a year at the front, in the autumn of 1944, the 384th was surrounded and then destroyed in defensive fighting near the city of
Kishinev
, during the Soviet
Jassy?Kishinev Offensive
.
Organization
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Structure of the division:
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- Headquarters
- 534th Infantry Regiment
- 535th Infantry Regiment
- 536th Infantry Regiment
- 384th Artillery Regiment
- 384th Reconnaissance Battalion
- 384th Tank Destroyer Battalion
- 384th Engineer Battalion
- 384th Signal Battalion
- 384th Field Replacement Battalion
- 384th Divisional Supply Group
Commanders
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References
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German Order of Battle, 291st-999th Infantry Division, named infantry divisions, and special divisions in World War II
. p. 56.
- Tessin, Georg (1975). "Die Landstreitkrafte 371?500".
Verbande und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939?1945
(in German). Vol. 10. Osnabruck: Biblio. pp. 34?35.