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    Panzer-Aufklarungs-Abteilung 12 OOB

    Im researching a WP of a funker in 1/Pz.A.A.12 in March-November 1944.

    I take it that the 1st Company was the Panzer Spah Kompanie of the Battalion and id like to know what vehicles the unit would have been using at this stage? Ive looked in Jentz but not had much luck with the OOB of the Pz.A.Abt.

    If it helps the soldier received extensive training in radio communications and was a qualified Funker, Panzerfunker, Tastfunker and Sprechfunker.

    He was KIA on the 15.11.44 in Latvia but his name is not on the Volksbund register. His name has a u with the two dots on top, i know this sounds terribly thick but i do not know the proper name for this, and i was wondering whether typing an 'english' u will have an effect on the search results?

    Many thanks in advance for any help

    Jonathan

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    Scherzer has a 33 page pdf on the 12 panzer division for sale and download

    http://www.wehrmachtdivisionen.de/index_divisionen.html

    There you'll find scans of originaø divisional OOBs which will give you an indication of how the kompanie was equipped.
    Collecting German award documents, other paperwork and photos relating to Norway and Finland.

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      Wp

      The u with two dots is an Umlaut and can be written as "ue" in substitution. The sound of the letter has little to do with the regular "u" sound.

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        #4
        Thanks Simon and Pauke

        Joanthan

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          Jonathan,

          You may know this but if you want to use German characters in your searches you can hold the Alt key down and type the appropriate number code using the number keypad to get the requried character.

          Richard

          Ä - alt-142
          ä - alt-132
          Ü - alt-154
          ü - alt-129
          Ö - alt-153
          ö - alt-148
          ß - alt-225<O</O

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            #6
            Many thanks Richard

            I knew the ones for the spanish characters not the German ones

            Jonathan

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              Originally posted by Jonathan M View Post
              Im researching a WP of a funker in 1/Pz.A.A.12 in March-November 1944.

              I take it that the 1st Company was the Panzer Spah Kompanie of the Battalion and id like to know what vehicles the unit would have been using at this stage? Ive looked in Jentz but not had much luck with the OOB of the Pz.A.Abt
              Jonathan-

              I do not have a specific order of battle for Pz.Aufkl.Abt.12, but a few guesses would be: various SdKfz.250s (including the /08 and /09), various SdKfz.251s (including the SdKdz.251/09), SdKfz.234/01 through 03, SdKfz.140/1... All of these were used by various Aufklärungs units, but again since I do not have a specific breakdown I can't tell you for sure.

              There are of course other possibilities, but all of the above mentioned vehicles would have been in service around the time your guy was KIA.

              Rob

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                #8
                Many thanks Rob, a great help.

                wwiidaybyday is also gradually coming online again and im looking through its KStN section for some clues as well

                Many thanks again

                Jonathan

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                  Check out the kstn section at http://www.sturmpanzer.com/
                  Collecting German award documents, other paperwork and photos relating to Norway and Finland.

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                    Thanks Simon, i should have thought of sturmpanzer as i often have a look through the resources available there

                    Jonathan

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