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    Unit names & types

    Dobbler
    Dobbler


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    Join date : 2009-02-27
    Age : 45
    Location : Oulu, Finland

    Unit names & types Empty Unit names & types

    Post  Dobbler Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:47 am

    Hi, it might seem that I'm nit-picking (again) but I'd like to point out, that the Panssarijääkäri rank and unit type does not mean armored light infantry. Or it does today, but back in the 40s, it meant anti-tank crewmen and AT units. This is maybe due to the word jääkäri/jaeger meaning a hunter, and thus panssarijääkäri would be tank hunter. The only Panssarijääkäri Battalion we had, incorporated to the Panssaridivisioona, was totally an anti-tank unit, equipped with mainly German PaK38 and PaK40s, but also with some captured or home-made weaponry.

    Panssaridivisioona had 4 regular Jääkäripataljoona(light infantry) to work with the tanks. So probably the rank/unit name you would like to use, for realism and historical correctness, is Jääkäri and Jääkäripataljoona. I'll add the copy of original OOB for PsD. here. This OOB is (AFAIK) dated in May 1944

    Panssaridivisioonan Headquarters

    * Panssariprikaati (Armored Brigade)
    o I/Panssariprikaati (tank battalions)
    o II/Panssariprikaati
    o Rynnäkkötykkipataljoona (StuG battalion)
    o Panssarikoulutuspataljoona (tank training battalion)
    o Erillinen Panssarikomppania (Separate tank company, with BT42 "assault guns")

    * Jääkäriprikaati (Jaeger Brigade)
    o Jääkäripataljoona 2 (Jaeger battalions)
    o Jääkäripataljoona 3
    o Jääkäripataljoona 4
    o Jääkäripataljoona 5
    o Panssarijääkäripataljoona (AT Gun battalion)

    * Raskas patteristo 14 (Heavy Artillery battalion)
    * Viestipataljoona 6 (Signals battalion)
    * Pioneeripataljoona 2 (Engineer battalion)

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