By R. Hedges
The official title of German army units using the Panzer Flamm Zug and as far as I'm aware they only had 7 Panzerflammwagen III, Kfz-1, M/C and a medium Truck as support vehicles. Some of the units below organised companies of 14 and as an educated guess these had 3 platoons of 4 plus 2 at CHQ 100 were built:
15 to Pz Regt 11 14 of each to Pz Regts 1, 24 & 26 7 each to Pz Regt 14 & 16 1 to Panzer Schule Wunsdorf GD transferred 13 to Pz Regt 15 At Kursk
11th Pz Div (Pz Rg 15) had 7 with 1 bttn and 6 with another at BHQ GD PzG Div had 7 with each BHQ The other units were not at Kursk. In October 43 14 & 24 Pz Division went to Russia.
In November 1943 1st Pz went to Russia.
On 20th Aug the following units were in Italy
Some of the Flammpanzer were passed on to Pz eistatz kp 35 which is listed with 7. This later became Panzer Battalion 208. Back to Frontline Vol. 2 Iss. 1 Table of Contents Back to Frontline List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Rolfe Hedges This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com |