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Kitmaniak
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Posted: Monday, December 16, 2002 - 08:30 AM UTC
I just wanted to ask you if it's possible to put a sdkfz 251/1 C in france in 1940
thank you

Flavien
Posted: Monday, December 16, 2002 - 08:44 AM UTC
no, A or B. the C model came out in time for Barbarossa in the summer of '41.

Chris Pig no.1
ukgeoff
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Posted: Monday, December 16, 2002 - 08:55 AM UTC
Flavien, an SdKfz 251/1 ausf A, possably even an ausf B, but definitely not an ausf C in 1940. It only entered service sometime in 1941.


(0ops, guess Chris beat me to the punch while I was double checking my refs.)
screamingeagle
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Posted: Monday, December 16, 2002 - 08:13 PM UTC
Both are correct. The Ausf C was first used in Russia 1941.
- But the Ausf A was used in action as early as the Polish campaign in 1939.......
.......Heer 1.Panzer Div was the first to use it.

- ralph
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