Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An sake fasalin sojojin a ranar 24 ga Janairu 1944 a matsayin Panzer Group West, ajiyar makamai na OB West. An sanya sabon rundunar a karkashin jagorancin Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg. Hanyar amfani da Panzer Group West a yayin mamayewar kawancen ya kasance batun rikice-rikice da yawa, tare da OB West kwamandan Gerd von Rundstedt da Army Group B kwamandan Erwin Rommel suna son hanyoyi daban-daban. Rundstedt da Geyr von Schweppenburg sun yi imanin cewa ya kamata a ajiye rukunin panzer a wani nesa daga gaba, don yin adawa da kutse na Allied. Rommel ya tabbata cewa ikon iska na Allied da kuma bindigogi na jirgin ruwa ba zai ba wa 'yan Jamus damar' yanci ba don motsa manyan ƙungiyoyi kuma don haka ya nace cewa ya kamata a tura "panzers" kusa da layin gaba. Adolf Hitler ya tilasta wa kwamandojin yammacin kwangila mara kyau kuma ya ƙi ba su damar yin amfani da rukunin panzer ba tare da izininsa ba. Lokacin da Allied Invasion ya fara a ranar 6 ga Yuni, 1944, Panzer Group West ya kasance ba tare da motsi ba; a ranar 8 ga Yuni, Geyr ya sami damar hanzarta rarrabuwa uku na panzer zuwa arewa don kare Caen
a kan sojojin Birtaniya da na Kanada. Geyr ya shirya ya kaddamar da ƙungiyoyi a cikin wani harin da zai tura Birtaniya da Kanada a cikin teku. A ranar 10 ga Yuni, Schweppenburg ya ji rauni a harin da aka kai kan hedkwatar Panzer Group West a La Caine. Tankunan Geyr sun sami damar iyakance ci gaban Birtaniyya na wata daya amma an sauke shi daga mukaminsa a ranar 2 ga Yuli, bayan da ya ba da izinin Rundstedt cewa Hitler ya ba da izinin janyewa daga Caen. A ranar 2 ga Yuli an maye gurbinsa da Heinrich Eberbach. Rukunin panzer ya yi yaƙi da sojojin Allied a Normandy, yana fama da asara mai yawa kuma a ƙarshe ya sami yawancin rukunoninsa a cikin Falaise Pocket. Bayan ragowar ragowar rukunin panzer ya tsere daga Falaise, ya fara komawa zuwa kan iyakar Jamus.