Regiment (I & II Battalions) 7 Motorcycle Battalion 37 Reconnaissance Battalion 78 Motorized Artillery Regiment (I, II & III Battalions) 58 Motorized Combat Engineer Battalion 42 Antitank Battalion 58 Field replacement battalion Divisional services The 25th Panzer Regiment had absorbed the 66th Panzer Battalion, which had been the panzer force of the original 2nd Light Division. By 1941, this unit had become the 3rd Battalion of the 25th Panzer Regiment. On the eve of Operation Barbarossa, the tank strength of the division had risen to 53 Pz II, 167 Pz 38(t), 30 Pz IV, and 15 French Char B, for a total of 265 tanks. The artillery regiment had added a 3rd battalion of heavy guns, with two batteries of 150 mm sFH, and a battery of 100 mm guns. Each panzer battalion comprised four companies instead of three, and a third company had been added to the antitank battalion. A field replacement battalion of three companies had also been added. The division totaled 400 officers leading 14,000 men at the start of Barbarossa. June 1943 In May 1942, the division was withdrawn from the Soviet Union and rebuilt and reorganized in France. The Panzer Regiment now consisted of two battalions equipped with German tanks. The infantry regiments were now renamed Panzer Grenadiers, with II / Panzer Grenadier Regiment 6 equipped with armored half tracks. The motorcycle battalion was merged into the reconnaissance battalion and contained an armored car company, a half track company, two motorcycle companies, and a heavy company. On its return to Russia in December 1942, the Panzer Regiment was now equipped with 21 Pz II, 91 Pz III (50mm long), 14 Pz III (75mm), 2 Pz IV (75mm), 18 Pz IV (75mm long), 9 Befehl (command), a total of 155 tanks. 25 Panzer Regiment 6 Panzer Grenadier Regiment 7 Panzer Grenadier Regiment 7 Reconnaissance Battalion 78 Motorized Artillery Regiment 58 Armoured Combat Engineer Battalion 42 Antitank Battalion 296 Anti-aircraft Battalion (attached Army troops) 58 Field replacement battalion Divisional services See also SS Panzer Division order of battle Panzer division Notes References Citations Bibliography 0*07 Military units and formations established in 1939 Military units and formations disestablished in 1945 1939 establishments in Germany 1945 disestablishments in Germany