Unit marking on Pz 38(t)
Unit marking on Pz 38(t)
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I need help identifying this unit marking. It looks like the early 4th Panzer division, but I`m not sure!
I need help identifying this unit marking. It looks like the early 4th Panzer division, but I`m not sure!
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HI Erik!
Aufklärung is right.... 12.Pz.Div.
Christoph
Aufklärung is right.... 12.Pz.Div.
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Erik
Did you also find this 38t in the countryside of your beautiful nation? Lots of stuff laying around up there by the sounds of it. Perhaps I could open a scrap metal business in Norway!
How much of this vehicle remains and in what condition? I'm guessing it was a turret and bunker combination. Strange as 12 Pz Div was predominantly on the East front. Use of surplus bits, I guess.
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Did you also find this 38t in the countryside of your beautiful nation? Lots of stuff laying around up there by the sounds of it. Perhaps I could open a scrap metal business in Norway!
How much of this vehicle remains and in what condition? I'm guessing it was a turret and bunker combination. Strange as 12 Pz Div was predominantly on the East front. Use of surplus bits, I guess.
Regards
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Well, this turret has been a victim of some post-war shooting exersises, so there is a big hole in it....... I am currently counting the Pz 38 turrets around here, and I have 14 now (found 2 "new" yesterday!) Most of them are only missing the barrel!
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They are a part of the "Landfront" defences south of Sola airport in southern Norway. The "landfront is some 20 Km long, and has a lot of Heavy PAK bunkers,anti-tank walls and ditches, tank turrets and loads of bunkers. As we speak I have 2 visitors from Interfest and Dawa, which are "bunker study groups" in Germany. We completed the Landfront today, and I have taken some 250 photos!Was it a stationary defence inlands or at the coast
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Interresting! I've just read the book Den nionde april (The ninth of April) by the Swedish writers Michael Tamelander and Niklas Zetterling, a very good book that handles the invasion of Norway. It says that Sola was a very importand airport because of its strategic location, far west. Disturbingly near Scapa Flow, the Englishmen thought. Was it from Sola that some German aircraft operated during the Battle of Britain? Were the Landfront defences placed to protect the airport?
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Hello!
Sorry for late answer, but I have been away for the northern batteries a couple of days!
All your suggestions are right Johan! Several missions from Sola to the Northern cities of GB was flown during the 1940. The units had heavy losses due to no fighter protection, so after 1940, these KG units were transferred to France. Sola airport was the only airport in western Norway with concrete runways, and capable of taking down large aircrafts.
Sola was also the first airport EVER to be taken by paratroopers........
EE
Sorry for late answer, but I have been away for the northern batteries a couple of days!
All your suggestions are right Johan! Several missions from Sola to the Northern cities of GB was flown during the 1940. The units had heavy losses due to no fighter protection, so after 1940, these KG units were transferred to France. Sola airport was the only airport in western Norway with concrete runways, and capable of taking down large aircrafts.
Sola was also the first airport EVER to be taken by paratroopers........
EE
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