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Don't worry Piet. I am not upset or anything. However, I think our discussion is getting a bit off topic-- it is supposed to be about available German researchers; it isn't supposed to be about Waffen-SS KStNs or the US War Department's Handbook on German Military Forces. Best regards and thanks for...

For the benefit of other readers, Piet and I were discussing the US War Department's TM-E 30-451 Handbook on German Military Forces. You missed my point entirely Piet. You said that you had "the US Army Handbook on the German army" and "in that there's some information on the Fallschi...

Aha-- Der fliegende Holländer schlägt wieder! :wink: Hi Piet: I could be mistaken, but I always thought that the Waffen-SS KStNs were included with those of the Heer. I would recommend for you Volume 15 of Tessin's series ("Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten W...

Thanks for the replies, Kameraden: Yes, the Bundesarchiv staff gave me names that are the same as the ones on your list. Auskunftei Militärgeschichte Dr. Ekkehart Guth Wannenweg 11 79312 Emmendingen Tel/Fax.: 07641/571298 E-mail: militaergeschichte@ t-oneline.de Sebastian Remus Oltmannstr. 4 79100 F...

Does anyone know the names of the commander of the signals company (Nachrichten-Kompanie) and of the medical company (Sanitäts-Kompanie) in the Ramcke Fallschirmjäger Brigade (Luftwaffen-Jäger-Brigade 1) in North Africa in the years 1942-1943? I think that the medical company commander might be Stab...

Hi Mattias: Unfortunately I don't think that the book has an ISBN number, because it was written in 1959. Here is the full title of the book: Schmidt, Gerhard. Regimentsgeschichte des Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 73, W. Boettcher Verlag, Bremen 1959 I don't have the book myself, but I have a friend in...

Thanks for the reply Tom: I am into everything, but my current interests are primarily equipment and organization (e.g., Krieggstärkenachweisungen and so forth). I had some names of professional reasearchers recommended to me by the Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv in Freiburg, Germany, and I also have a ...

I could be wrong, but I thought that at one time there was a section on the Feldgrau forum that had contact information on people who did military research for free or for pay (for example, private researchers, museum and archive contact information and so forth). Where in this forum would I be able...

In reference to the question on the 1. Fallschirmjäger Division having any tanks, Rich Anderson is absolutely correct-- they had no tanks. However, in 1943 one of the six companies in Fallschirm-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 1 was authorized Marder II self-propelled anti-tank guns, and the unit still had Ma...

Hi Rich et al.: Excellent post Rich. Do you have similar details on the 1. Fallschirmjäger Division in terms of theoretical and actual strength in terms of officers, officials, other ranks, and equipment? First I'll give you the information that I have. It is from Hans-Martin Stimpel's Die deutsche ...

I have seen information about the rate of traverse of hydraulically powered turrets (like those on the Panther and Tigers I and II); I've seen information on electrically traversed turrets (like those on the Panzer IV models, with the exception of the J model); but I have never seen figures on how r...

I found one new piece of information in Walter J. Spielberger's book "Sturmgeschütz and Its Variants". He claims that the SIG 33B unit that served with the 22. and 23. Panzer Divisions was initially called the Sturm-Infanterie-Geschütz-Batterie, Lehr Battaillon, XVII Armee-Korps. I also no...

Does anyone know the anything about the operational histories of the 24 SIG 33b assault guns that fought on the eastern front in late 1942 and early 1943? I was particularily interested in the unit name or designation for the assault gun company of the 12 SIG 33s (15 cm Sturm-Infanterie-Geschütz L/1...

Does anyone know the range and performance of the optical sights on German built tanks compared to their British, American and Soviet counterparts? I've read that the German Zeiss built optical sights were generally superior to their allied counterparts. One could clearly distinguish targets at much...

Sorry - that's all it said was "Gewehre". No 7. Kp. was listed. The FSJ Rgt. z.b.V. was a "special" unit in the sense that it was made up ad hoc, so to speak. As far as I/FSJ R 26, apparently von Ahlfen didn't think it deviated from the norm, while the Rgt.z.b.V. deserved specia...