On 6 September the brigade was sent to Colmar and on 16 September sent to Saarburg.[1] Assigned to the 5th Panzer Army,[2] it participated in the Battle of Arracourt, as the Germans attempted to stop the US Third Army's penetrations in Lorraine.[3] By that time, the brigade had 42 Panther tanks.[4] The battle resulted in German defeat and the virtual destruction of the 113th Panzer Brigade,[5] leaving its commander, Oberst Erich Freiherr von Seckendorff dead in the battle as well.