Aufklaerung Abteilung III contained one armoured car Company; ‘’Pz.Spar.Wgn.Schwadron’’: 6 x heavy armoured cars and 18 x light armoured...
Hi Carronade, I too noticed the 10 x Sd.Kfz 251 per Battalion, I will try and dig further and see what I can come up with. I also noticed that...
Thank you Eartican, I will digest this info tonight, it’s a great start. Yan.
Hi, I was reading about the 5th Light Division yesterday, and when it landed in Africa in 1941 it had; 50 x Panzer Is (were these all Ausf IBs)....
Hi, I have been trying to gather data on the Norwegian 6.5cm Bergkanon m/1897, this what I have up to now; 6.5cm Bergkanon m/1897 Design:...
Hi, When an British Lieutenant pick a private to be his Batman in WW2 (Dog robber to the U.S. forces), was it from the men in his platoon, if so...
The first tank to enter Batogne when the 4th Armoured Division succeeded in breaking through was a M4A3E2 Jumbo called ‘’Cobra King’’. Has anyone...
Panzer Lehr suffered from air attacks when it moved it to the front, but I think most of these losses were half-tracks and trucks. Going back to...
Have a look at this Hummel. 101st Division Headquarters 327th Glider Infantry Regiment 401st Glider Infantry Regiment, disbanded 1...
If you count the Falaise pocket as part of the battle (I should have made this point clear in my last post) then air power played a significant...
You are right JB, I have read that the majority of German Armour in Normandy was destroyed by Air to Ground Fire and also that the Majority of...
The best way for the Americans to combat the Tiger Tank, would be to combine the Sherman Jumbo with the 17 pdr gun mounted in the Firefly, then...
I wonder if the Belgian forces and native forces too, had a similar TO&E to the Belgian Army in 1940, can anyone give me a breakdown of a Infantry...
once the Americans landed on Omaha, they had to stay and tough it out, which they did of course, and were victorious in the end, I wonder if the...
There is some debate over the break out from last stand hill to deep ravine, there could be a claim that very few men made it to deep ravine and...
He wanted the women and children, the Reno attack was to draw out the warriors from the village and Custer was to cut behind and capture the...
Custer should have kept his Regiment together; he could have still split it into four Battalions: Yates: E, F & L Companies (120 men) Keogh:...
Going on the height issues: Sherman = 2.62m Pz Mk IV = 2.68m There is not much between them. Turret traverse: Sherman = 16 sec Pz Mk IV = 12 sec...
The early version of the Pz IV and late versions of the Pz III used the 75mm L/24 Gun, this short barrelled gun held the advantage in urban...
