Actually I was just looking for a justification to drive to Arnheim and shoot pictures

Andy
If you can verify that a unit was using that somewhere along the line of the route, or was based close to any of the fighting I accept. A bit of research and you might find one was involved.



Pete

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Andy
If you can verify that a unit was using that somewhere along the line of the route, or was based close to any of the fighting I accept. A bit of research and you might find one was involved.



Pete

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Hi guys

I'm drawing a blank on finding records of a Radschlepper assigned to one of the units along the MG route.

One thing I can say is that of the 206 built, the vast majority were allocated to units on the western front between northern France, through Belgium and into Holland.The Radschlepper was found to be unsuitable for it's intended use on the eastern front and it simply wasn't needed in Czechoslovakia and Poland where the roads tended to be slightly better than Russia. Hence it's assignment to the west.

The best I can do is suggest that of 206 built it would have been more likely than not that one of the Axis units involved would have had and used one.

Additional support is given by the fact that a number were used (and captured by the Americans) during the later Ardennes Offensive showing that they were certainly in the area.

No doubt there is some record somewhere, but for me at least these aren't as readily available for something like a Radschlepper as they might be for a front line fighting vehicle.

By way of back-story. I intend the Radschlepper was abandoned by the Germans initially pushed back at Eindhoven. It was later pressed into service as an agricultural vehicle by the local population, and the model will be depicted circa 1952.

Any good?????

Hey everybody!

I want to do a diorama depicting one of the schwere Panzerabteilung 506's King Tigers (3rd company) during the battle around Elst, so I just picked up this guy:



I might have to wait until next February to start (it's usually kinda hairy during the semester) but I'm looking forward to this campaign!

See you,

Jerry

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Andy
If you can verify that a unit was using that somewhere along the line of the route, or was based close to any of the fighting I accept. A bit of research and you might find one was involved.



Pete

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Hi guys

I'm drawing a blank on finding records of a Radschlepper assigned to one of the units along the MG route.

One thing I can say is that of the 206 built, the vast majority were allocated to units on the western front between northern France, through Belgium and into Holland.The Radschlepper was found to be unsuitable for it's intended use on the eastern front and it simply wasn't needed in Czechoslovakia and Poland where the roads tended to be slightly better than Russia. Hence it's assignment to the west.

The best I can do is suggest that of 206 built it would have been more likely than not that one of the Axis units involved would have had and used one.

Additional support is given by the fact that a number were used (and captured by the Americans) during the later Ardennes Offensive showing that they were certainly in the area.

No doubt there is some record somewhere, but for me at least these aren't as readily available for something like a Radschlepper as they might be for a front line fighting vehicle.

By way of back-story. I intend the Radschlepper was abandoned by the Germans initially pushed back at Eindhoven. It was later pressed into service as an agricultural vehicle by the local population, and the model will be depicted circa 1952.

Any good?????

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This is just my best guess; The soil in the Netherlands and around "Market and Garden" operation area's where to soft for this vehicle to be useful. Remember that one of the many reasons 30th core was running behind was that they had to stick to the narrow roads in Holland. of the roads they got bogged down in mud. Also I'm almost certain that a German specialty truck like that would have ended up in the Museum at Overloon at one point. I did a tremendous amount of reading, tours and research on battles in my home country but never run into any proof they have been there so far.

Eric

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Hey everybody!

I want to do a diorama depicting one of the schwere Panzerabteilung 506's King Tigers (3rd company) during the battle around Elst, so I just picked up this guy:



I might have to wait until next February to start (it's usually kinda hairy during the semester) but I'm looking forward to this campaign!

See you,

Jerry

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Jerry

Are you revering to this unit?

http://www.defendingarnhem.com/schpzkphummel.htm

They "only" had tiger 1's, the schwere Panzerabteilung 506 had king tigers but Hummel joined that unit after the Arnhem battles.

Eric

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Andy
If you can verify that a unit was using that somewhere along the line of the route, or was based close to any of the fighting I accept. A bit of research and you might find one was involved.



Pete

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Hi guys

I'm drawing a blank on finding records of a Radschlepper assigned to one of the units along the MG route.

One thing I can say is that of the 206 built, the vast majority were allocated to units on the western front between northern France, through Belgium and into Holland.The Radschlepper was found to be unsuitable for it's intended use on the eastern front and it simply wasn't needed in Czechoslovakia and Poland where the roads tended to be slightly better than Russia. Hence it's assignment to the west.

The best I can do is suggest that of 206 built it would have been more likely than not that one of the Axis units involved would have had and used one.

Additional support is given by the fact that a number were used (and captured by the Americans) during the later Ardennes Offensive showing that they were certainly in the area.

No doubt there is some record somewhere, but for me at least these aren't as readily available for something like a Radschlepper as they might be for a front line fighting vehicle.

By way of back-story. I intend the Radschlepper was abandoned by the Germans initially pushed back at Eindhoven. It was later pressed into service as an agricultural vehicle by the local population, and the model will be depicted circa 1952.

Any good?????

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This is just my best guess; The soil in the Netherlands and around "Market and Garden" operation area's where to soft for this vehicle to be useful. Remember that one of the many reasons 30th core was running behind was that they had to stick to the narrow roads in Holland. of the roads they got bogged down in mud. Also I'm almost certain that a German specialty truck like that would have ended up in the Museum at Overloon at one point. I did a tremendous amount of reading, tours and research on battles in my home country but never run into any proof they have been there so far.

Eric

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Thanks for your advice Eric - but you're not helping ;-)

This is starting to annoy me.. Does anybody have an answer for my two questions?

Was the M4A1 used in Market-Garden?
And was the Piper L-4 used in Market-Garden?

Were any of these used during the Battle of Arnhem at all?