6th PzD - OOB Question - Stalingrad

[Richrd]

Beever says: 'It had been refitted in Brittany and was fully up to strength, with 160 long barrelled pzIVs and forty assault guns" This is all false. 6th Panzer had 21 PzII, 73 PzIII(lang), 32 PzIII (75 Kurz), 24 PzIV (lang), and 9 befehlPanzer. Plus a PzJgr Battalion with one company of Marders. He also says, on the same page, about the Tiger Tanks: 'The very first battalion to be formed had been rushed to the Ostfront and added to Kirchner's (57th Pz Kps) force'. This too is untrue. The first battalion had been sent to Leningrad. The one sent to southern Russia was the 503rd s.Pz.Abt. It entered action along the Manytsch river in January 43 when the Russians were driving on Rostov. Sorry to sound like an OOB geek but Beever, who sounds like his source was Raus, is not a credible source. That still leaves the 228th StuG Batt. I'm mystified.