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The engine and drive-train, including portal geared wheel hubs, are the same as in the Volkswagen Typ 166 Schwimmwagen amphibious vehicle. [ 1 ] 564 units of the Kommandeurswagen were produced; [ 4 ] in November 1946, [ 5 ] the Volkswagen plant — by then under British control — produced two more vehicles using spare parts from stores.
The German Africa Corps (German: Deutsches Afrikakorps, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃəs ˈʔaːfʁikaˌkoːɐ̯] ⓘ; DAK), commonly known as Afrika Korps, was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African campaign of World War II. First sent as a holding force to shore up the Italian defense of its African colonies, the formation ...
The vehicle featured a wheel-track layout and a diesel motor. The wheels were lowered when it was used on roads and retracted for tracked movement cross-country. A number saw service with the Afrika Korps, serving as artillery observation vehicles after being fitted with a radio and rail antenna.
A field modification, similar to that done to the Ausf B earlier in Spain, developed in preparation for the assault on Tobruk, by the 5th le division (5th Light Division) field engineers of the Deutsche Afrika Korps, and issued to the 5th Tank Regiment. the flamethrower was capable of 10-12 one-second bursts up to 25 m (82 ft).
The Panzer IV was the most numerous German tank and the second-most numerous German fully tracked armoured fighting vehicle of the Second World War; 8,553 Panzer IVs of all versions were built during World War II, only exceeded by the StuG III assault gun with 10,086 vehicles.
The two prototypes were completed in 1941 and they were organized into a platoon for troop trials with Panzerjäger-Abteilung ("Anti-Tank Battalion") 605 of the Afrika Korps. The first vehicle was reported received on 17 January 1942 by Panzerjäger-Abteilung 605 , but the second was not reported as arrived in Tripoli until 23 February 1942.
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Mercedes-Benz L 3000S truck in a museum in Noginsk, Russia Mercedes-Benz L 3000 S in Italy with Fallschirmjäger, 1944 Romanian soldiers riding a Mercedes-Benz L 3000, Hungary, 1944 A vintage L3000 bearing markings of the Dossenheim Fire Police in 2016