5th Panzer Army

5th Panzer Army
5th Panzer Army
5. Panzerarmee
	5th Panzer Army
Active	8 December 1942 – 13 May 1943; 24 January 1944 – 17 April 1945;
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Army (Wehrmacht)
Type	Panzer
Role	Armoured warfare
Size	Army
Engagements	World War II; North African Campaign Tunisian Campaign; ; Western Front Operation Overlord; Falaise Pocket; Battle of the Bulge; Ruhr Pocket; ;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Jurgen von Arnim; Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg; Sepp Dietrich; Hasso von Manteuffel;

5th Panzer Army (German: 5. Panzerarmee) was the name of two different German armoured formations during World War II. The first of these was formed in 1942, during the North African campaign and surrendered to the Allies at Tunis in 1943. The army was re-formed in France in 1944, fought in Western Europe and surrendered in the Ruhr pocket in 1945.

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