Authors: Norbert Bacyk
Abteilung:
Battalion
AK: “Armia Krajowa”
The Polish Home Army
AT:
Anti-tank
BA-FAI:
A Soviet armoured car used by the Germans as a police armoured car.
BP 42:
Armoured train, model 1942
BP 44:
Armoured train, model 1944
Brummbär:
Assault tank IV, equipped with a heavy assault gun
Ersatz:
Replacement/training
Ersatz-StuG. Abt.:
Replacement assault battalion
Fallschirm-Panzer:
Parachute armour (Herman Göring)
Flak-Kaserne:
Anti-aircraft garrison
Flak-Vierling:
Four-barrelled anti-aircraft gun of calibre 20 mm
Funklenk (Fkl):
Radio controlled
Gammongranat:
British anti-tank grenade
Goliath:
Radio controlled mini tracked vehicle for the delivery of demolition charges
Heeresgruppe:
Armé Group (Army Group)
Hetzer:
Tank killer, a self-propelled AT-GUN mounted on a Czechslovakian T-38 tank, when in German service PzKpfw 38(t)
Jagdpanzer:
The standard description for all designed self-propelled AT-guns.
Kampfgruppe:
Battle-group
Karl Gerät:
Super heavy mortar of calibre 60 cm and was used for the destruction of the heaviest bunkers.
Kraftfahrpark:
Vehicle depot
MG 34:
Machinegun, model 34
MG 42:
Machinegun, model 42
Molotovcocktail:
Petrol bomb
Munitionsschleper:
Ammunition transport
Mörser:
Mortar, high calibre artillery gun similar technically to standard mortars firing shells in a high arc toward the target.
Nebelwerfer:
German rocket artillery
PAK:
anti-tank weapon
Pak 38:
Panzer Abwehr Kanone AT-GUN, 5 cm calibre
Pak 40:
AT-gun, 7.5 cm
Panzer-Abteilung:
Panzer Battalion
Panzer-Aufklärungs.Abt.:
Panzer reconnaisance battalion
Panzerbefehlswagen IV:
PzKpfw IV-vehicle with extra radio equipment for use as a battle command vehicle for a panzer battalion.
Panzer-Division:
Tank Division
Panzerfaust:
German AT gun
Panzergrenadier:
Tank grenadier
Panzer-Jäger-Abteilung:
Anti-tank battalion
Panzer-Kompanie:
Panzer Company
Panzer-Korps:
Tank Corps
Panzer-Nachrichten:
Tank communication/radio unit
Panzerschreck:
German bazooka
PIAT:
British RCL, a one-man, recoilless AT-gun
PzKpfw:
PanZerKamPFWagen = Tank
PzKpfw II:
A light tank, model 2, and reconnaissance vehicle
PzKpfw III:
A tank model 3 and medium tank
PzKpfw IV:
A tank model 4 and medium tank
PzKpfw V “Panther”:
A tank model 5 and medium-heavy tank
PzKpfw VI “Tiger”:
A tank model 6 and heavy tank
PzKpfw 38(t):
A reconnaissance tank of Czech origin also used by the Swedish Army
PzKpfw 736(i):
German codification for an Italian tank of model M13/40 and the M14/41
RONA:
Russian National Liberation Army
SA:
Sturm-Abteilung â Assault Battalion
Sd Kfz:
SonDerkraFtfahrZug = ID code for military vehicles in German service.
Sd Kfz 7/2:
Anti-aircraft- halftrack baring a 3.7 cm Flak 36 AA gun
Sd Kfz 10/4:
Anti-aircraft-halftrack baring a 20 mm Flak-Vierling 38 AA gun
Sd Kfz 132 “Marder”:
Self-propelled 7.62 cm AT-gun converted from the obsolete PzKpfw II â vehicle
Sd Kfz 232:
Armoured Radio Car
Sd Kfz 233:
Armoured car without turret, armed with a 7.5 cm short-barrelled gun
Sd Kfz 250:
Light half track for infantry transport
Sd Kfz 251:
Medium/heavy half-track for infantry transport
Sd Kfz 263:
Armoured radio car (6Ã4)
Sd Kfz 301, (B VI):
Borgward a so called “Sprengstoff-träger” vehicle built especially for the demolition of bunkers and obstacles.
SS-Obergruppenführer:
SS-General
SS-Standartenführer:
SS-Colonel
SS-Staufernkasern:
SS-Garrison
StuG Sturmgeschütz:
Assault gun
SS und Polizeiführer:
Chief of SS- and Police units within a specified occupied area
Sturm-Kompanie:
Assault Company
Sturmpanzer:
Heavily armed, assault gun of model Brummbär
Sturm-Pionier:
Assault sappers/pioneers
Sturmstiger:
One of the most heavily armed guns! A 38 cm rocket launcher also called “Sturmmörser” or assault mortar.
z.b.V zum besonderer Verwendung:
available â at command disposal
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