StuG IV Divisions?
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StuG IV Divisions?
I've recently got back into modelling and am interested if anyone could help with stug IV divisions, insignias or both. Would like my models to be accurate. Including the numbers and colours, zimmerit etc..
SIKERone of "The Hit Squad"
According to Osprey New Vanguard # 37, Siker1, StuG IVs were normally issued as single companies of 14 (later 10) vehicles each to infantry, Jaeger, mountain and Volksgrenadier divisions. But there were exceptions; Panzer Abteilung 190 of the 90th Panzergrenadier Division in Italy was fully equipped with StuG IVs, as was Panzer Abt. 8 of the 20th Panzergrenadier Division, and the divisional tank battalions of the 4th and 17th SS Panzergrenadier Divisions.
It was also issued to the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, but the above mentioned book isn't clear about whether these StuGs were issued to the tank regiment, or to the divisional tank-destroyer battalion. Perhaps someone else can answer that.
Hope this has been useful to you.
Yours,
Paul
It was also issued to the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, but the above mentioned book isn't clear about whether these StuGs were issued to the tank regiment, or to the divisional tank-destroyer battalion. Perhaps someone else can answer that.
Hope this has been useful to you.
Yours,
Paul
Thanx Paul. Anything at all is helpful I have recently acquired that book and am trying to obtain some signal books to see what information they have on the subject. I was going to paint my stug IV dark yellow with "panzer lehr" L's on the mud guards just wanted to make sure that they actually existed in panzer lehr div!
Thanx
Thanx
SIKERone of "The Hit Squad"
What C. Gillono said was certainly true, Siker. A number of books about Kursk, for example, have photos of SS-crewed Panthers which are claimed to belong to an "SS-Panther Brigade", when in fact no such unit existed. The only Panther units at Kursk were the 51st and 52nd Panzer Abteilungen, of the Heer's 10th Panzer Brigade. The first SS Panther-equipped battalion was I/SS-Panzer Rgt. 2, which didn't arrive until mid-August 1943--a month after the Kursk operation was called off by Hitler.
Yours,
Paul
Yours,
Paul
No photos, just the plain facts
Link: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... eilung.htm
Well done!
Michael
Link: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gli ... eilung.htm
Well done!
Michael
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For a StuG IV units overview based on actual research check the good old 'StuG IV photofile' here:
http://missinglinks2.tripod.com/index.htm
Could need a little update here and there by now but for a start it's still a pretty complete overview - if I'm allowed to say so
Martin Block
http://missinglinks2.tripod.com/index.htm
Could need a little update here and there by now but for a start it's still a pretty complete overview - if I'm allowed to say so
Martin Block
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Sorry to hear that Paul! In that file you can find a complete list of StuG IV unit allocations I myself have compiled some years ago using original documents found in BA-MA and NARA archives. There's also a listing of units fielding StuG IV on 15.1.1945 and another one as of mid April 1945.
In addition to that you can find a list of photo captions for the 100+ StuG IV thumbnails on 'Sturmgeschutz IV Contact Sheet 1 - 3'.
Martin Block
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In addition to that you can find a list of photo captions for the 100+ StuG IV thumbnails on 'Sturmgeschutz IV Contact Sheet 1 - 3'.
Martin Block
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