Panther Ausf.G of 12. SS-PzD ‘Hitlerjugend’ knocked out by Canadian soldiers of the Regina Rifle Regiment’s. This is in reply to this…

Panther ausf G, commanded by Untersturmführer Teichert from the 4th Company of the 1st Abteilung (Battalion), 12th SS Panzer Regiment, 12th SS Panzer Division “Hitlerjugend” outside 75 Rue de Bayeux in Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse. On the night of June 8-9, 1944, the 1st Abteilung and the 25th Panzergrenadier Regument made an attack on the 1st Battalion, The Regina Rifle Regiment, 3rd Canadian Division, with twenty-two panthers under SS-Obersturmbannführer Max Wunsche, two batteries of self-propelled artillery and a motorcycle company led by SS-Oberführer (later SS-Brigadeführer) Kurt “Panzer” Meyer. The Reginas had suffered heavy casualties in the landing on Juno Beach on June 6, but with reinforcements moved towards Caen and occupied Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse, Norrey, and Cardonville; other Canadian units occupied other towns, including Putot.  At 1100 Hours the attack began. Lacking heavy anti-tank weapons, the Reginas had to stop the Panthers with 6-pounder 57mm (2.24 inch) guns and Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank (PIAT), a spigot mortar with a 12 pound (5 kilogram) high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) shaped charge; the 6-pounders and the PIATs could only penetrate the lesser rear armor of the Panthers. The Reginas also had a large quantity of small arms and ammunition. One PIAT team - Rifleman Joseph E. LaPointe, Rifleman Gill A. Carnie and Lance Corporal Clarence V. Hewitt - took up a position 15 yards (14 meters) from the Regina Rifles Headquarters near Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse’s Church.