talk about panzer I in north africa

need panzer I information in north africa!who can help me?thank you very much!

 

Rommel had quite a few, they were useless.

Are you looking for anything specific?

FNG

 

Some Panzer I. were modified to Panzerjäger 1 and were used by the Panzerjäger-Abteilung 506 of the 21. Panzer-Division in Africa.

 

There were 26 x PzkPfw I in the 5th Panzer Regiment of 5th Leichte Divisione as at March 1941.

25 more arrived in May 1941. At least 10 these were converted into Ladungsleger and served with 33rd Pz Pio Battaillon.

605th PzJag Abt (not 506th) had 27 of the PanzerJaeger vehicles illustrated above at the same time. They received 9 more in May of the same year.

What else would you like to know?

 

Whats a Ladungsledger? Google came up with nothing

FNG

 

I am looking for panzer I Aust A late information in north africa,need a lot of detail pics

 

from late 40 to 41 it was withdrawn from service in the main combat areas, last combat in finland and north africa
but no many pics can be found on the a model, sorry

 

I think they mean "Ladungsleger" which would translate "explosive charge (mine?) layer". This would explain why these vehicles were attached to the Pio (Pioniere = Engineers) Batallion.

 

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Any ideas how the thing on the back works?

FNG

 

Sorry. That extra 'd' I inserted threw a spanner in the works! (typical, some goons mis-spell loads of words per post & it matters not a jot. I get one wrong once in a while and............)

I am not sure of the breakdown between no's of I Ausf A & I Ausf B in N.Africa. But I think that I may have seen it somewhere. If I find it I will post it here, so watch this space.

 

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/pz11.htm (scroll down half the page)

http://users.swing.be/tanks.tanks/complet/637.html#1057

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_I