Redesignation of Panzers

A German Wehrmacht article on the redesignation of panzers from the German WWII publication Nachrichtenblatt der Panzertruppen, Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppen, No. 17, November 1944:

III. Neubenennung gepanzerter Fahrzeuge

Nachstehend aufgeführte Neubenennungen treten mit sofortiger Wirkung in Kraft:

 

Bisherige Bezeichnung        Neue Bezeichnung
le. Pz. Jg. 38 t   Jagdpanzer 38  
Sturmgeschütz III   Sturmgeschütz III
Sturmgeschütz IV   Sturmgeschütz IV
Sturmhaubitze   Sturmhaubitze
Sturmpanzer   Sturmpanzer
le. Pz. Jg. IV   Jagdpanzer IV
s. Pz. Jg. V   Jagdpanther
s. Pz. Jg. VI   Jagdtiger
Panzer IV   Panzer IV
Panzer IV lang   Panzer IV lang

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1 Response to Redesignation of Panzers

  1. rj2 says:

    Amazing that the Germans were still fooling around with issues like this in the autumn of 1944. Who could have possibly cared?

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