The Competition & Teaser Thread

[ComradeP]

Interesting, I guess it's one of those cases where there are a variety of sources, some of which indicate that the unit had a certain component whilst it may not have had it.

You learn something new every day.

"Squardron" looks like a typo to begin with, even if "Squadron" is meant. It could be that "Squadron" is used sometimes for NATO compatibility, but the German word is Schwadron. Similarly, maybe some sources mention "Battalion", but that might also be for NATO compatibility as the German word is Bataillon.

Here's an example of 1st Reiter Regiment of 1st Kavallerie Division. "Eskadron" was changed to "Schwadron" in the 1930's, and as you probably know the majority of the recon units in the older divisions of the Wehrmacht were formed by splitting up cavalry regiments at the start of the war, hence the use of "Schwadron" instead of "Kompanie" to stick to the cavalry tradition.

http://lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederu...nt/RR1.htm

Units that were formed during the war or after redesignation, like the recon unit of the 7th Panzer, seem to have changed to "Kompanie".

The lack of a single standardized spelling for some unit or equipment types is challenging when describing the Wehrmacht. For example: you can write "Pak" or "PaK", "Flak" or "FlaK" and for units "Fla." or "Flak".

I see I made a typo myself:

Various: "Spah" should be "Spaeh" or have an Umlaut on the a. (originally I wrote: an Umlaut on the u).