SS Panzer Division 1944 – Organization
You will often read that the SS Panzer Division was better equipped. Here we will see that the organization of an SS Panzer Divisions in 1944 were in fact designed to be better equipped...
You will often read that the SS Panzer Division was better equipped. Here we will see that the organization of an SS Panzer Divisions in 1944 were in fact designed to be better equipped...
Technology moves quickly during a war and the Germans soon found themselves with a lot of obsolete tanks. However, they did a great job of repurposing these chassis for other uses. Whether through rebuilding...
I found an interesting document regarding halftrack allocations to panzer divisions. The document related specifically to a second armored Panzergrenadier Battalion for Gross-Deutschland Panzergrenadier-Division; however, it has great information about authorized halftrack counts and...
A few years ago, I came across this German Assault Engineer Battalion (Sturm-Pionier Bataillon) organizational diagram (gliederung) . It seemed interesting as this was a fairly large battalion with a nice variety of equipment....
This booklet will cover the “Schützen” Brigades K.St.N” of 1937 to early 1939. Although many of the K.St.N.’s issued during this period of the war have been found, many have not. These K.St.N’s were...
The Flammpanzerzug organization (Armored Flamethrower Platoon) was very basic, it simply had 7 Pz.Kpf.Wg.III flamethrower tanks. The Pz.Kpf.Wg.III (Fl) had a three-man crew. The commander who served as the flamethrower gunner (also the coaxial...