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| Subject: | Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot |  |
| Date: | Apr 28, 2008 | |
| From: | Dan | |
There were exceptional circumstances when crewmen were deliberately employed as infantry. When there were insufficient tanks or assault guns, sometimes the excess crewmen were allocated into adhoc infantry to escort the armour; in response to the absence of escorting infantry (panzergrenadiers), usually due to heavy casualties. This tended to happen in some of the assault gun brigades because most units did not receive the organic escort infantry company whose job it was to fend off soviet infantry. Most all of the situations that I've read about happened late in the war when replacements of both personnel and vehicles became erradic.
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 | Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Brian Kelly - Apr 28, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Roy Chow - Apr 28, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Christopher C. Tew - Apr 28, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Dan - Apr 28, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Juan Contreras - Apr 29, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Steve Camley - Apr 29, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Christopher C. Tew - Apr 29, 2008 |
| . . . Good theatrical depiction - David Nickels - Apr 29, 2008 |
| . . . . . . You're a Soldier first and Tank Crew second - Michael Magyar - Apr 29, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . I would say it depends - David Nickels - Apr 30, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Richard Griffith - Apr 29, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Gazza Hollett - Apr 29, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Neil Oram - Apr 30, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Christopher C. Tew - Apr 30, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Gazza Hollett - Apr 30, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - a. syalabi - Apr 30, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Panzer Crew fighting on foot - Anthony Sewards - Apr 30, 2008 |
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