Panzer Artillerie
One of the confusing points about artillery units is that they are titled differently to most other units, where for instance other units were Kompanie and Abeilung with artillerie its Batterie and Battallion.
Specifically for Pz Artillerie Regiment 74 on 1st June 1944, they had three Battalions, I, II and III, each had three Batterie, numbered 1,2,3 (I Batt), 4,5,6 (II Batt) and 7,8,9 (III Batt).
As with all Pz Art Rgt the I Battalion were Self-Propelled guns (Sfl) whilst the other two Battalions were towed guns (mot).
Thus the I Batt contained Hummel Sfl and Wespe Sfl, and used the fully tracked tactical sign with the howitzer sign above it, to the right the Batterie number would we written (1, 2 or 3) and to the left the 's' for schwere (heavy) or 'le' for lichte (light) guns, Hummel being heavy and Wespe being light.
As it happens Pz Art Rgt 74 in June 44 had its Wespe in Batterie 1 and 2 and its Hummel in Batterie 3, in other Pz Art Rgt's it could easily be the the reverse, it was their choice.
Of interest and to show the typical confused German situation, the 7th Batterie of Pz Art Rgt 74 was not Artillerie but an 8,8cm flak Batterie, which I suppose could be considered dual-purpose flak and artillerie .
lennard
Last edited by Lennard; 03-12-2007 at 11:40 AM.
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