"I am Blessed with Wurfrahmen" Topic

Help out a guy for whom WWII is a fringe period, please. A recent shipment of used microarmor fixed my Sdkfz 251 shortage, but included wurfrahmen models which were previously unknown to me. Sadly, neither the Spearhead nor the Command Decision org guides mention them that I can find. Does anyone know where in a division they would have been assigned, and in what numbers?

From: link after a very brief Google search.

The 28/32 cm NbW 41 units were organized into batteries of six launchers, three per battalion. They were deployed as independent Werfer-Regiments and Brigades, and assigned either to mechanized infantry (Panzergrenadiere) or engineers as well as "position rocket regiments" (Stellungs-Werfer-Regimenter). The first were created and trained after the Battle of France in 1940 but almost all saw service on the Eastern Front and well as the Italian Campaign, France and Germany after D-Day. It's on the eastern front that the need of a more mobile, better protected battery was thought of and based on the Sd.Kfz.251/1 II. They appeared depending on sources, in late 1942 or 1943 and stayed in limited numbers.

Article has a number of pictures, including one showing a rocket being launched.

Jim

Interesting question. My copy of the Spearhead TOE has 1 model (so 1 platoon effectively) of a 251/1 with Wurf 40 rockets in the Armoured Assault Company in the Engineer Battalion of the 1944 Panzer Division (page 4 of the TOE book). The Command Decision TOE book on page 55 has 4 Sdkfz 251/1s in its Pioneer Battalion for the 1944/5 Panzer Division – I think the "s" might stand for "Smoke" i.e. rockets as their TOE book does not normally use plurals. So potentially up to 4 stands per division?

What Andrew said, my Spearhead TOE also has the odd platoon of Wurhframen.

So (a) my fault reading Spearhead poorly, and I can use four of my five new friends? Excellent! Thank you all very much.