333rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 333rd Infantry Division was a military major unit of the Wehrmacht.

Division history

The 333 ID was set up in November 1940 in Military District III in Berlin and Brandenburg as indigenous Division of the 14 -up shaft. She served for a time as an occupation force in France. End of October 1942, the unit was converted into a field deployable attack Division and moved to the Eastern Front, where it was placed under the Army Group South in the Ukraine. She struggled with the XXXX. Panzer Corps of the 1st Panzer Army near Donetsk and Isjum, in October 1943, the retreat to Zaporizhia on the Dnieper. After continuing strife in southern Russia, the 333 ID had to be officially disbanded in November 1943. The remains were divided between the divisional group 333 and the 278th and 294th Infantry Division.

People

Structure

• Infantry Regiment 679
• Infantry Regiment 680
• Infantry Regiment 681
• Artillery Regiment 333
• Engineer Battalion 333
• Field Replacement Battalion 333
• Tank Destroyer Division 333
• Reconnaissance Battalion 333
• News department 333
• Supply troops 333