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Hermann Bix - 75+ Kills (4th Panzer Division)-Knight's Cross 3/22/45
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Feldwebel Bix of the 35th Pz Rgt. 4th Panzer Division.
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    On the 4th of Oct. 1941 Feldwebel Bix in Pz III armed with a 5 cm L/42 encoutered T-34 and KV-1s tanks of the Russian Army tanks for the first time. In this battle which was in a part of Orel Bix for the first time, would also see Panzers retreating for the first time since the start of the war.
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    After this the crews of his tanks and others had to come to grips with the fact that they found tanks they could not stop by gunfire. On this occasion in Orel 8.8 Flak and 10.5 field artillery helped to stop the Russians.
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    As part of the Elberbach Brigade which was from the 35th Pz. Feld. Bix was in action again in Oslavaya.
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    In this action he was to fight and win his first battle with a heavy Russian tank.
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It was in the afternoon of the of the 14th of Nov. 1941 when the Brigade had been ordered to attack the village. While attacking into the village the Russians tanks that had been there forced out to fight. Bix on fighting his own little battle spotted a KV-1 at a range of 30 meters. At that range he order his gunner Kruase to fire special armor piercing shot. They fired three with no penatration to the surprise and horror of the crew.
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    At this time he called by radio to his Leutnant Bloke for pioneers. Bloke called back to him, "Bix, if nothing else works try to shoot his cannon in two,,"!
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Bix at first did not know what to think, but they tried.
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    The first shot the gunner Krause fired. The smoke from the gun firing and shell exploding at close range, blinded them both. Bix ordered another shot, but Krause fire twice more before Bix ordered him, to cease fire.
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    After the third shot the KV-1 came to life and started to rotate it's turret towards Bix's tank. Leutnant Bloke was just coming onto the seen and Russian stopped and fired at his tank as they fired back.
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The KV-1 started spewing spoke out of insides..
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Then Bix's radio operator calls up, " His barrel has burst, Herr Feldwebel."
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This was just the shot in the arm that Bix and the rest of of the Elberbach Brigade needed.
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    Then on the 24 th of November 1941, acting as the forward of the Elberbach Brigade, Feldwebel Bix advanced into Vanev there his tank destroyed 1 AA gun, 1 MG postion and while chasing a KV-1, 2 T-28 light tanks.
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    After this his unit caught up with him and his crew in the city. Hauptmann Lekschsat came up in his tank for a report from Bix. Just after the tanks quieted themselves Bix heard a tank engine starting from about a 100 m's away.
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    Bix who was outside of the tank called to the driver to drive ahead to a barracks, from which they could see the KV-1 one around the corner. "Open Fire!", Bix ordered but the shot blinded them as it struck the Russian. The short range was clouded so that they could not see the Russian.
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    Now it was the Russian's turn to fire but they were also blinded by the first shot. The Russian shot went high and wide. Bix now tried to get into the turret but his jacket caught on the hatch. His intercom was torn out now. To Bix's horror the KV-1 was on a ramming coarse with his tank, he had seen the Russians do this many times before.
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    He yelled to his driver to reverse but there was no response.. The intercom was not connected. He scrambled around the turret to the drivers visor and motioned for him to reverse. This Schrwatz did just in time. The Russian went past them with only a couple of meters seperating them.
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    The big KV-1 smashed into a large stone wall and stopped the wall falling down onto the turret.
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    At first Bix thought the Russian may be immobolizied. But then the KV started to try and move. At a range of 10 meters they fired into the side of the turret with no effect!
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By this time Bix had managed to get back into the tank and plug his radio in. The Hauptmann called, " Harpoon this is Chief, we are coming!"
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    Not a few secounds later the shots from the approaching tanks started to hit and bounce off the KV-1's thick armor. There were so many shots being fired that Bix's tank was getting rained on by pieces of shells, and armor.
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    Remebering his earlier success he ordered Krause to fire on the gun again, Krause anticipated this order and was ready, after three shots again. Bix ordered him to cease firing. Seeing the gun was hit he ordered Krause to target the running gear, after four shots he stopped.
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    Now the giant was done for, the Russians baled out and took off for safety.
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After his wounding he was sent home to Germany to get better, there on the 5th Nov. 42 he was awarded the German Gold Cross.
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    Then Early 43 he underwent officer training before strating to be trained on the Panther in Sept. 43. After his training it was back to the Russian front. But to his pleasure it was to be with his old unit Pz Rgt. 35's, 1st Abt. This was in June of 44.
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When they arrived in the Slutsk area there were no ramps to unload the Panthers so they pulled the train to favorable spot turned the tank 90 degrees and drove off. This was to take them into the battles to save what was left of Feldmarschell Busch's 34 divisions that held the center of the front. The 4 th Panzer fought with the 12 Pz. to the north and the 28th Jager Divisions to south.
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    In the areas of Baranovichi, Stoltce Bix leading an attack ran into a AT front and was hit 17 times, they thought the Panther had been disabled but it was only damaged roadwheels. Later he switched tanks and carried on the attack with 11 other Panthers, that were under the command of Oberleutnant Goldhammer. They succeeded in taking a small village and holding the night but without infantry it was impossible to hold. Then over night the front moved and when dawn came the unit was behind enemy lines. The unit decided the only way out was to drive as fast as possible, keeping formation and not stopping for anything. When they set out the first Russians were not prepared for this rash attack from behind and they folded up as the tanks sped by shooting at anything of danger. Then they had to head south down a dirt road in a field. To the right was trees and to the east of that the friendly lines. No one new in the German lines that this unit was out there, any who would of know would of written them off.
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    They were wrong. The tanks in wedge formation speeding at up to 50 kph approached the trees and started to come under fire. The leader called for individual tageting and not to stop. So Bix seeing the tank in front rotate, it's turret ordered his gunner and the company opened fire. The Russian fully alert but under fire and pooring out as much fire as they could had a disadvantage. The short range and the speed of tanks rushing by the them at a right angle. They just did not get lucky, at the time of turn the Oberleutnant Goldhammer called to his tankers over the radio, Only a few more kilometers, don't stop.
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The Germans in the trenches heard the firing from the Russian line and the fires starting, but had no idea what was happening. To there surprise the alarm of tanks approaching was called as one after another appeared, hell bent for leather.
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    A officer in the line looking through his binoculars shouted out that they were Panthers, he waved his hat and the lead tank as came nearer fired off a flare. They made it back. The exhausted tankers and amazed onlookers saw the tankers pile out of there machines that had gotten upto 120 degrees inside. They were exhausted but had a grim look of determination as they looked back at the smoke from where they came.
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    This was in July or Aug. of 44. It was also in Aug that he kept adding to his score but his Panther let him down finally. They were hit on the mantle and the shell went down into the radio operator compartment. This was Bix's secound wound that would take him from the front.
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Kurt Knispel was born in 1922 in the former Sudetenland. He had a carefree childhood and grew up to be a broad shouldered lad of medium heigh, whose dark hair was always a little too long, something he would be chided for later in life.
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After completing his apprenticeship in an automobile factory in 1940 Knispel applied to join the armored forces. Predestined by build and training, he was accepted immediately.
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For his basic training Knispel went to the Panzer Replacement Training Battalion at Sagan in Lower Silesia. There, like all other budding soldiers, he had to learn to march and salute, then progressed to basic weapons training. This included learning to handle the Kar 98k rifle and P 38 pistol, how to throw hand grenades and how to operate the MG 34, later followed training on the Pz I, II & IV.
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On 1 October 1940 (Aged 18)he was transferred to the 3rd Company of the 29th Panzer Regiment, 12th Panzer Div. Knispel completed his training as a loader and gunner in a Pz IV, training lasted until 11 June 1941 and consisted of courses at Sagan and Putlos.
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Knispel was gunner in Pz IV under Lt. Hellman at the time of Barbarossa, where he participated in the initial assault as part of Panzergruppe 3, LVII Army Corps (later LVII Panzer Corps) commanded by General Adolf Kuntzen. Knispel saw action from Yarzevo to the gates of Stalingrad, in the North around the Leningrad-Tikhvin area and also in the Caucasus under Mackensen.
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Knispel returned to Putlos at the end of January 1943 and became familiar with the new Tiger tanks, at this time, Knispel was credited with 12 kills. .(Aged 21)
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From Putlos, a group of men was sent to 500th Panzer Battalion at Paderborn. This group was led by Oberfeldwebel Fedensack and included Kurt Knispel, it was to become the 1st Company of the elite 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion, and fought at Kursk as flank cover to 7th PzDiv (Armee Abteilung Kempf). Knispel saw further action during the relief attack on the Cherkassy Pocket (a.k.a. Khorsun Pocket), Vinnitsa, Jampol, Kamenets-Podolsk. The Company re-equipped with Tiger IIs and fought around Caen and the retreat from Normandy. From there back to the Russian front and action around Mexotur, Tookszentmiklos, Cebled, Kekskemet, the Gran bridgehead, Gyula, Neutra, Bab Castle. (In one action, Knispel reports 24 enemy hits on his Tiger II), Laa and finally Wostitz, where he was killed in action.
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With 168 (all confirmed, possibly as high as 195) kills, Kurt Knispel was by far the most successful tank soldier of the Second World War. He was an exception in the German armored forces. He fought in virtually every type of tank as loader, gunner and commander. He was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class after destroying his fiftieth enemy tank and the Tank Assault Badge in Gold after far more than 100 tank battles. When Knispel had destroyed 126 enemy tanks (with another 20 unconfirmed kills) he was awarded the German Cross in Gold. He became the only non-commissioned officer of the German tank arm to be named in the Wehrmacht communique. As commander of a Tiger and then a King Tiger Knispel destroyed another 42 enemy tanks. This raised his total to 168 enemy tanks destroyed, making him by far the world's top "tank killer". Although it was richly deserved, he was never awarded the Knight's Cross although he was recommended four times.Possibly because his hair was too long and his appearance too scruffy.
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