Campaigns- Poland 1939
- Eastern Front 1943-1945
HistoryThe 8. Armee was established on 1 August 1939 and fought in the Polish Campaign from 1 September 1939 to 20 September 1939. On 20 October 1939 it was re-organized as Armee-Oberkommando 2 and was assigned to the Western Front. The 8. Armee was re-established on 22 August 1943 from Armee-Abteilung Kempf. They fought entirely in the East and on the southern setors. The 8. Armee was in existence for 706 days of which 626 were spent fighting in the East. OrganizationKorück 530
Armee-Nachschubführer 531
Armee-Nachrichten-Regiment 511 after reformation Korück 558
Kdr. Armee-Nachschubtruppen526
Armee-Nachrichten-Regiment 570
Höherer Arko 310 CommandersJohannes Blaskowitz 8.1.1939
after reformation
Otto Wöhler 8.22.1943
Hans Kreysing 12.28.1944 Calendar of Battles and Engagements| Polish Campaign Calendar of Battles and Engagements |
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| 1. | BorderFighting in West Poland. | 9.1.1939 | 9.3.1939 | 3 | | a. | Captureof Kempen and Schildberg. | 9.1.1939 | 9.1.1939 | 1 | | b. | Battle byKrotoschin, Bosjanowo and Lissa. | 9.3.1939 | 9.3.1939 | 1 | | c. | CrossingOver the Prosna River. | 9.2.1939 | 9.2.1939 | 1 | | d. | Battle byWieruszow and Grabow. | 9.1.1939 | 9.2.1939 | 2 | | 2. | Fightingon the Warthe Line. | 9.2.1939 | 9.4.1939 | 3 | | a. | Fightingby Dziakoszyn and Osjakow. | 9.2.1939 | 9.3.1939 | 2 | | b. | Fightingby Sieradz and Wartha. | 9.3.1939 | 9.4.1939 | 2 | | 3. | Battle onthe Bzura. | 9.7.1939 | 9.19.1939 | 13 | | a. | PursuitFighting to Rawka. | 9.7.1939 | 9.10.1939 | 4 | | b. | Battle byJeszow. | 9.9.1939 | 9.9.1939 | 1 | | c. | Fightingfor Sochaczew-Uniejow. | 9.9.1939 | 9.14.1939 | 6 | | d. | Battle byPiekary. | 9.11.1939 | 9.11.1939 | 1 | | e. | Battle byJezionka. | 9.11.1939 | 9.11.1939 | 1 | | f. | Battlefor and West of Zyradow. | 9.12.1939 | 9.12.1939 | 1 | | g. | Advanceand Pursuit to the Weichsel River. | 9.15.1939 | 9.19.1939 | 5 | | h. | DefensiveFighting by Lowicz. | 9.14.1939 | 9.14.1939 | 1 | | i. | Attack onKiernozia. | 9.15.1939 | 9.15.1939 | 1 | | k. | DestructionBattle south of Wysogrod. | 9.16.1939 | 9.19.1939 | 4 | | l. | Fightingin the Puszca Kampinoska. | 9.17.1939 | 9.19.1939 | 3 | | 4. | Fightingfor Warsaw and Modlin | 9.20.1939 | 9.28.1939 | 9 | | a. | Encirclingof Warsaw. | 9.20.1939 | 9.24.1939 | 5 | | b. | Battle bySierakow | 9.20.1939 | 9.20.1939 | 1 | | c. | Battle byLimianki and Mlociny. | 9.21.1939 | 9.22.1939 | 2 | | d. | Attack onWarsaw | 9.25.1939 | 9.27.1939 | 3 | | e. | Encirclingof Modlin. | 9.20.1939 | 9.20.1939 | 1 |
| Eastern Campaign Calendar of Battles and Engagements |
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| 1. | DefensiveBattle in the Charkov Area. | 2.9.1943 | 3.4.1943 | 24 | | 2. | AttackingBattles in the Charkov Area. | 3.5.1943 | 3.31.1943 | 27 | | 3. | PositionFighting on the Upper Donets River. | 4.1.1943 | 7.1.1943 | 92 | | 4. | DefensiveBattle in Southern Russia and Retreat to the Dnieper River. | 7.13.1943 | 9.27.1943 | 77 | | a] | DefensiveBattle in the Area West of Charkov. | 8.13.1943 | 9.14.1943 | 33 | | 5. | DefensiveBattles on the Dnieper River. | 9.28.1943 | 12.23.1943 | 87 | | a] | DefensiveBattle near Cherkassy. | 11.13.1943 | 12.13.1943 | 31 | | 6. | DefensiveBattles in the Southern Ukraine. | 12.24.1943 | 4.27.1944 | 126 | | a] | Battlenear Shaschkow and Jlinzy. | 12.28.1943 | 1.31.1944 | 35 | | b] | DefensiveBattle Around Kirovograd. | 1.5.1944 | 1.18.1944 | 14 | | c] | DefensiveBattle and Breakout Battle West of Cherkassy. | 1.24.1944 | 2.25.44 | 33 | | d] | DefensiveBattle Near Uman and Withdrawal Fighting Across the Bug and Dniester. | 3.5.1944 | 3.26.1944 | 22 | | 7. | DefensiveFighting in Northern Bessarabia. | 3.27.1944 | 5.12.1944 | 47 | | 8. | AssaultNorth of Jassy. | 5.30.1944 | 6.6.1944 | 8 | | 9. | PositionalFighting Between the Dniester and Pruth. | 6.7.1944 | 8.20.1944 | 75 | | 10. | Battle inBessarabia and Destruction near Jassy | 8.21.1944 | 8.24.1944 | 4 | | 11. | PositionFighting by Remnants in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains. | 8.25.1944 | 9.27.1944 | 34 | | 12. | Fightingin Eastern Hungary and the Carpathian Mountains. | 9.28.1944 | 10.28.1944 | 31 | | 13. | Fightingin Upper Hungary Between the Thieß and Gran. | 10.29.1944 | 12.24.1944 | 57 | | 14. | FightingAround the Gran. | 12.25.1944 | 4.15.1945 | 112 | | 15. | WithdrawalFighting North of Donau to Lower & Upper Austria then Moldau [Budweis]. | 4.16.1945 | 5.8.1945 | 23 |
German Bibliography- Die deutschen Infanterie-Divisonen, Band 1-3, by Werner Haupt
- Die deutsche Feldpostübersicht 1939-1945, Band 1-3, by Nobert Kannapin
- Die Pflege der Tradition der alten Armee in Reichsheer und im der Wehrmacht, by Schirmer/Wiener
- Die Truppenkennzeichen… der deutchen Wehrmacht u. Waffen-SS, Band 1-4, by Schmitz/Thies
- Der Zweite Weltkrieg im Kartenbild, Band 1-3, by Klaus-Jurgen Thies
- Deutsche Verbände und Truppen 1918-1939, by George Tessin
- Verbände und Truppen der deutchen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS…, Band 1-14, by Georg Tessin
- Formationsgeschichte und Stellenbesetzung 1815-1939, Teil 1, der deutschen Heer, Band 1-3, by Günter Wegner
- Die Deutsche Wehrmacht u. Waffen-SS, Ihre Kommando. u. Grossverbände… im Zweiten Weltkrieg, author unknown
- Das Reichsheer und Seine Tradition, author unknown
- Deutsche Rote Kreuz Suchdienst, Divisionsschicksale, author unknown
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