21st Panzer division Werfers

[John Kettler]

Troops,

Am attempting to reprint here, for your delectation, what I couldn't post earlier.

Kingfish,

Here's the Marder I I just mentioned in model form

http://www.missing-lynx.com/gallery/german/marderi_sdwyer.html

Here are the tech specs for the two vehicles in question

http://www.wwiivehicles.com/germany/foreign/gw_fcm.html

Further digging indicates that I was wrong. There was indeed an LeFH16, both per the table and per Gander and Chamberlain's WEAPONS OF THE THIRD REICH.

The top three images here are all apparently Marder Is, each on a different chassis.

http://www.achtungpanzer.bos.ru/marder.htm

Per Hart & Hart's GERMAN TANKS OF WORLD WAR II, page 27, 200th Assault Gun Battalion consisted of "45 Marder Is in five batteries." Pages 25-27 cover Becker and his conversions.

Think I broke the code! "Ho" = Hotchkiss, as in H-39 chassis. If you go to

www.wehrmacht.org

and search under Tank Regiment 100 in the 21. Armored division -link's a mile long, but found it by Googling "baustab becker"-, you'll find a detailed OOB and a discussion of where the unit was, derived from a whole book on 21 PD.

The baustab becker term will kick up a review of an HPS game featuring 21 PD in Normandy. OOB's apparently highly detailed. Halfway down this link, you'll find a fabulous writeup on what the Germans did with captured French AFVs, to include a detailed list of types serving in 21 PD.

http://www.forum.fun-online.sk/viewtopic.php?p=52845&highlight=

Here is another fine discourse on the topic, to include 21 PD.

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=6135

Jackpot! 21 PD organization charts, tables, manning lists, etc. Extracts from research material for Zetterling's NORMANDY 1944. Main site has a good operational map, too.

http://web.telia.com/~u18313395/normandy/gerob/gerob.html

This is the FCM chassis conversion, apparently under construction. Note how thin the plates are.

http://ostpanzer.asty.ru/topics/sp_guns/french-shassis/75pakfcm/

And here's a writeup on Lorraine based Marder Is and other goodies (with the jam the computer part of the URL removed)

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47207/thread/1066416701/

Hope this helps.

Regards,

John Kettler

[ March 10, 2006, 06:35 PM: Message edited by: John Kettler ]

[Brent Pollock]

...and if you want to play with all these toys, you'll have to crack open the Pegasus Bridge HASL module...or be content with the listings on the pieces in the The Longest Day.

[JonS]

... or play PzC: Normandy '44 ...

[John Kettler]

Kingfish,

Was searching for some stuff on Panzerjaeger company TO&E data for a CMBB thread, but found this thread, which is positively awash with the most groggy data on 21 PD.

http://fow.flamesofwar.com/viewtopic.php?t=21438&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Regards,

John Kettler