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The Panzerkampfwagen IV (Pz.Kpfw. IV), commonly known as the Panzer IV, is a German medium tank developed in the late 1930s and used extensively during the Second World War. Its ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. 161 .
The kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen (English: light armoured command vehicle), known also by its ordnance inventory designation Sd.Kfz. 265, was the German Army's first purpose-designed armoured command vehicle; a type of armoured fighting vehicle designed to provide a tank unit commander with mobility and communications on the battlefield.
Sd.Kfz. 162 - Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer with 75 mm L/48 main gun on Panzer IV chassis Sd.Kfz. 162/1 - Jagdpanzer IV with 75 mm L/70 main gun) Sd.Kfz. 163 - Sturmgeschütz IV for Sturmkanone 40 (L/48) Sd.Kfz. 164 - Nashorn (until 1944 known as Hornisse) panzerjäger tank destroyer with 88 mm Pak 43 main gun)
Ostwind - popular name for the Flakpanzer IV mit 3.7 cm FlaK; Panther tank (name for the Panzerkampfwagen V) Jagdpanzer IV/70 (75 mm L/70 gun armed assault gun version of the Jagdpanzer IV, also Panzer IV/70) Panzerbefehlswagen III (command tank version of the Panzer III) Panzerbefehlswagen IV (command tank version of the Panzer IV)
Hornisse = 88 mm Pak43/1 auf Geschützwagen III/IV, later known as Nashorn (Sd. Kfz. 164) Möbelwagen = Self-propelled anti-aircraft. 37 mm Flak 43 L/89 on Panzer IV chassis (Flakpanzer IV Sd. Kfz.161/3) Wirbelwind = Self-propelled anti-aircraft. Quadruple 20 mm Flak 38 L/112.5 guns on Panzer IV chassis, with armoured turret (Flakpanzer IV)
The division was equipped with the light Panzer I and Panzer II tanks, with the very first pre-production versions of the more powerful Panzer III Ausf A. arriving by November 1937 for testing, [2] and the first examples of the Panzer IV Ausf. A being delivered from around the same time, and by June 1938 by the latest. [3]
During the combined Soviet winter offensives Operation Uranus and Operation Mars in late November through mid-December, the division fought near Rzhev, where it was rendered combat ineffective. By November 18, 1942, the division only had 7 Panzer II, 1 Panzer III, 19 Panzer IV, and 3 Sd.Kfz. 265 Panzerbefehlswagen operational. [5]
The Wehrkreise after the Anschluss Map of the Wehrkreise in 1943-1944. The military districts, also known in some English-language publications by their German name as Wehrkreise (singular: Wehrkreis), [1]: 27–40 were administrative territorial units in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. The task of military districts was the ...