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01-29-2016 02:18 AM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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Machine gun battalion??? Or is not your question?
"Please", Thank You" and proper manners appreciated
My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
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Yes, the unit marking mystery is the question
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I'm taking a stab and am probably wrong as I don't study this..I'm sure this is 2nd nature to others and hopefully they come along for you...
2nd MG Company / 2nd Battalion / 2nd Regiment ????
Here is a WW1 1914 German Organizational chart. MG were are listed as a company.
And this...It says there were 3 MG companies...but this is 1914, not intrawar years.
"Please", Thank You" and proper manners appreciated
My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
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Thanks. But this buckle is what I would loosely call a 'transitional pre-Third Reich 1935 buckle ' Given that, do not think 1914 Org Charts are applicable. To be sure, this 1935-36 period was a rapidly changing time, and so quite interesting
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I actually had a typo
I meant to write 2nd Company / 2nd MG Battalion / 2nd Regiment
Yes, the pics are WW1 but it was to give general idea.
This might help a bit more after some more digging. But it is WW2 era MG Battalions.
Lexikon der Wehrmacht
And this......(which is a partial translation of the above)
Each MG-Bataillon had:
Bataillonsstab (Battalion headquarters) w/
-Bataillonskommandeur
-Adjudant
-Ordonannzoffizier
-Bataillonsarzt
-Techn. Offizier
-Stabspersonal
-Nachrichtenzug (signal platoon)
Drei MG-Kompanien (1. bis 3. Kp) (3 MG companies 1-3) w/
-Kompaniechef
-Kompanietrupp
-Nachrichtenstaffel (transmission) mit Fernsprechtrupp und Funktrupp (one radio and one telephone squad)
-Vier schwere Maschinengewehr-Züge (4 heavy MG platoons) w/ each:
Zugführer
Zwei Gruppen mit je 2 sMG (2 squads with 2 heavy MG each)
Schwere Kompanie (Heavy company) w/
-Pionierzug (engineer platoon)
-Infanteriegeschützzug (2 leichte IG) (infantry gun platoon w/ 2 75mm howitzers)
-Pak-Zug (antitank platoon, composition unknown)
-Granatwerferzug (6 Granatwerfer 8 cm) (mortar platoon with 6 80mm mortar)
that's 48 heavy MGs per battalion, and it was fully motorized.
"Please", Thank You" and proper manners appreciated
My greatest fear is that one day I will die and my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them
"Don't tell me these are investments if you never intend to sell anything" (Quote: Wife)
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I believe MAP is going in the right direction here.. Military abbreviations and jargon still hold true to this day in certain instances... Nice buckle too..
I'd rather be A "RaD Man than a Mad Man "
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NIce buckle Jeff and a nice pick up mate, I would go for Machine gun company also to be honest
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Hello,
it means :
2./ Maschinen Gewehr Batalion 2.Kompanie II.Zug
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