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The number plate that you gave would only mean it was a Wehrmacht (WH) issued vehicle instead of a Waffen SS issued vehicle.
You could also add dead horses, as they made up more of the transports then people realize for German units especially in the Wehrmacht. In a leg infantry division they may make up close to 75% of the transport available. Many of the infantry divisions in Normandy were static, with no or little organic transport and horsedrawn being the majority of what was available. It has been stated in one review of the possible German invasion of England that it would have stripped all of the available military and civilian motorized transport in Western Europe.
The linked article can give you some more idea of how vehicles were marked . You at your kit instructions for decals and then refer to the charts to get an understanding.
http://www.feldgrau.com/articles.php?ID=43
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101stAirborne What I mean is like the lisence plate # but it stands for the unit. It would look something like this: WH 62234 But it would be for Normandy and I don't know the unit #'s for Normandy so I was asking if anyone knew them.
What I mean is like the lisence plate # but it stands for the unit. It would look something like this: WH 62234 But it would be for Normandy and I don't know the unit #'s for Normandy so I was asking if anyone knew them.
Sorry, i am still not sure what you are referring to. The only means of identyfing a unit would be the Div Insignia that many vehicles carried and possably a number referring to the Company next to the tactical sign. As for the number plates, they were not issued according to where they are being used, there is no code to tell you where a vehicle is or who it belongs to. Its juts a number that relates to the vehicle.
The main Pz Div in Normandy where off the top of my head:
21st Pz, Pz Lehr, 1st SS, 2nd SS, 9th SS, 10th SS and 12th SS.
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101stAirborne...I don't know the unit #'s for Normandy...
Any history of the campaign in Normandy will have dozens of German units named.
Das Reich eventually got to Normandy and took part in the campaign. LSSAH, etc.
Look at sites like world war 2 in color or flick'r to find pictures of German operations in France. Or go to the library and look at the old Time-LIfe series of WW2, or books on the France campaign. In a lot of cases the Germans were in retreat and used whatever transport that had wheels, never mind that they weren't operated by the proper units.
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Do you mean the numbers put on the side of vehicles such as the turrets of tanks. If so then soft skins didn't carry them. They would have carried a Unit insignia and maybe a symbol indicating there role which in some cases may have had the Company number next to it. But by 1944 much of this system had fallen out of use.
Pick the German unit you want; the unit probably had trucks assigned to it. Since your diorama is set in Normandy, you will want a German unit which was in Normandy at the time.
I am starting a new dio that includes an abandonded German truck along a road side in France after an allied bombing. I will post some pics soon but first I need to know the unit #'s for German trucks in Normandy. Thanks.
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