101. SS-Artillerie Abteilung

 

Originally it was intended to raise a unit named 101. SS-Werfer-Abteilung. This was commenced in October 1943. However this was never completed, instead it was decided to complete the unit as 101. SS-Art.Abt.¹

The forming of the unit seem to have taken som time, since it was reported that the unit was only conditionally combat ready on 1 June.² The battalion had the following equipment³:

1. Batterie: Four 21 cm Mrs 18
2. Batterie: Three 17 cm K 18
3. Batterie: Three 17 cm K 18

After the allied landings, it was decided to send the battalion to Normandy. It arrived at I. SS-Pz.Korps 10 - 12 June, having travelled from its original location at Beauvais, via Paris.⁴

The battalion was intended to be a permanent component of I. SS-Pz.Korps and it seems to have remained with that corps during the entire campaign.

The battalion had three artillery pieces combat ready on 25 August.⁵

1	G. Tessin, Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS (Mittler & Sohn, Frankfurt am Main and Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1966-1975).
2	Status report from I. SS-Pz.Korps to the Inspector-General of Panzer Troops, 1.6.44, BA-MA RH 10/309.
3	Ibid.
4	H. Meyer, Kriegsgeschichte der 12. SS-Panzerdivision "Hitlerjugend", vol I (Munin Verlag, Osnabrück 1982) p. 115f.
5	Anlage 1 zum Gen der Art beim Chef Ge,St.d.Heeres Ib Nr. 2610/44 g.Kdos, 27.8.44, BA-MA RH 11 II/v. 4.