"12th Parachute Assault Gun Brigade (german)" Topic
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| ciaphas | 31 Dec 2013 12:59 a.m. PST |
Hi, does anyone have an OOB for this unit or am I about right in assuming it would be similar to the panzer brigades in general terms. cheers
jon |
| Martin Rapier | 31 Dec 2013 3:09 a.m. PST |
No, it was a battalion sized unit authorised 31 guns in three batteries of nine each. No-one knows it's actual strength, it arrived at the front on 15 June 44, but reported its strength on 27 June as 11 operational guns. A month later it still reported ten guns operational. (Seven Stugs and three StuH). Iirc the official to&e for a StuG brigade included small detachment of engineers, flak etc. |
| Jemima Fawr | 31 Dec 2013 3:49 a.m. PST |
Like a lot of StuG 'Brigades' it might never have received its full allocation of three companies and might only have existed as a single company-sized unit. |
| Martin Rapier | 31 Dec 2013 4:20 a.m. PST |
Some 'Brigades' also had an infantry escort company with SMG/Stug 44s as well as an attached tank company, but the 12th FJ didn't appear to have either. The official battery equipment was six Stugs and three StuH, not sure how that was supposed to break down into sections, four sections of two plus an HQ StuH? |
| Jemima Fawr | 31 Dec 2013 4:41 a.m. PST |
There was usually a battery HQ vehicle in addition – either another a StuG or an OP vehicle such as a halftrack. In the 'full strength' example given above, the 31 vehicles would break down into three batteries of 10 vehicles and 1x brigade command vehicle. Platoons were organised as 3x vehicles – either all of one type or with the StuHs distributed 1 per platoon. |
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