Sd.Kfz. 252 LGM

[Pibwl]

Originally Posted by Imp

Its Wikipedia which is just about the most unreliable source on the net so you can assume its wrong.

This "most unreliable source" tells the same, as Jentz/Doyle in Encyclopedia Of German Tanks Of WWII (which is however very general source, and in some places made obsolete by newer research). Naturally, Wikipedia is sometimes wrong, but on the other hand, wrong info might be corrected there (contrary to once printed sources). It's only as good, as sources, upon which peculiar info is based. Unfortunately, I have no access to Panzer Tracts with SdKfz 252.

I assume, that the MG was carried inside, and could have been mounted on some external pivot; which was not practised, as photos show.

Michal

[cbo]

According to Spielbergers book on the StuG, it was part of the requirement for the SdKfz 252 that it carried one MG that could be mounted on an AA-mount.

That could be the origin for the assumption, that the vehicle had an MG.

I've seen one photo showing something which could be a mount for an MG on the front right corner of the top of the superstructure, but whether it is actually the case, I can't say.

If you could find a copy of an original German TOE for an early StuG battalion, you could probably see whether is had and MG.

The SdKfz 253 battery commander and observation vehicle does not seem to have had an MG at any point in its development, but there is a photo of the battery commander vehicle of 1/197 which sports an MG 08/15 mounted on the roof and a photo of an bservation SdKfz 253 from the same unit with an MG 34 mounted on the roof on what appears to be an arm allowing for AA-fire.