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Mike, I think this has all been answered elsewhere but I am just so happy at having been able to login for the first time in about two years that I thought I'd post out of joy !

No British Regiments in WW2 were "sponsored" by a private individual, that was a thing from a couple of hundred years before.
There were two German Infantry Divisions which used the Green Heart as a sign, 87th and 134th, but neither of these was raised in Berlin.

I'm afraid that you are showing a lack of understanding of the British and German systems in WW2. It was a couple of hundred years ago that British Colonels "owned" their regiments . The Heer Grossdeutschland units also recruited throughout Germany regardless of Wehrkries. Neither of these things wo...

Would that be Das Reich ?

No they weren't issued with a third MG, they had to take one of the other two out and use that, but I'll be darned if I can remember which one !

If you follow the link on the bottom of the Gliederung for the Aufkl Abt you'll see that the claim is made for the 24 armoured cars to be a mix of SdKfz 222 and Panhard 178. The Gliederung has them as 18 x 2cm armed cars and 6 x MG armed cars so either none of them were Panhards or they only had MGs...

As the Pz.aufkl.kp. was exclusively outfitted with Sdkfz 250/251's Except for the ones outfitted with VW or Schwimmwagen of course, The vehicle in which he travelled did not make any difference to a man involved in an Infantry Assault as far as the award went. Just why would an infantryman, by what...

David, some information on IV./AAR 2(ex 529) have been posted on AHF.

https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic ... 8&start=30

Bender & Law ( Uniforms, Organisation and History of the Afrikakorps p76 confirms the following; Inf. Regt. (mot) 155 Inf. Regt. (mot) 200 (Formed by combining one btn. from Inf. Regt. 155 and III/Inf. Regt. 347 on March 24, 1942) Inf. Regt. Afrika (mot) 361 Pz. Gren. Regt. (mot) Afrika (previously...

Title says it all really.

I wonder if someone will be able to tell us why it was called "The Berlin Infantry Division" when it was raised in Lübeck in Wehrkries X and not Berlin in Wehrkries III.

They were produced in 1939 so yes to that and they certainly weren't in France in 1944 and even if they had been they wouldn't have been grey.

Raul, that isn't an SdKfz 250/3 in the foreground, it is in fact an SdKfz 253 Artillery OP Vehicle. If you look closely you'll see that there is a roof on it and the frame antenna is too low to be that of an SdKfz 250/3.

Panzerschütze is the lowest rank in the Panzertruppe of the Bundeswehr and was the lowest rank in the Infanterie (mot) of the Wehrmacht. Kindly regards from Belgium Prosper :wink: :wink: Propser, you've mixed up the Infanterie(mot) with the Panzertruppen. The lowest rank in the Infanterie was just ...

The 23rd Hussars were part of 11 Armoured Division and in the first week of September 1944 they were liberating Antwerp.
Have you tried searching for your man on the Commonwealth War Graves site ?

https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/