I see that the Day-by-day is still referring to the Leibstandarte as a regiment. Rory’s pretty good about detail so I’m going to e-mail him and compare sources. I have them as a brigade at this time. Funny how this keeps showing up.
Newspapers are the first draft of history. Don't expect them to get everything right. More accurate information will be available days, months, years, decades later.
Add in the fact that this is the New York Times...
I think the newspaper is referring to it as a division, which is definitely wrong. I’m talking about the Day-by-Day history post. The owner of the site is very good at getting detail correct. One of the exercises we have done here with these threads is to see how the papers don’t correspond with the actual events.