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This is a list of Jäger units in various national armies. Jäger , or Jaeger , is the German word for " hunter ", and describes a kind of light infantry . [ 1 ] In English the word Jaeger is also translated as " rifleman " or " ranger ".
The Panzerjäger I (English: "tank hunter mark I") was the first German Panzerjäger ("tank hunter") to see service in the Second World War.It mounted the Czech 4.7 cm KPÚV vz. 38 (German designation "4.7 cm Pak (t)") anti-tank gun on a converted open-topped Panzer I Ausf.
Listed here are the 142 Knight's Cross recipients whose last names start with "J", [5] ordered alphabetically. Fellgiebel himself delisted one and Scherzer has challenged the validity of four more of these listings. [6] The rank listed is the recipient's rank at the time the Knight's Cross was awarded.
For instance, Feldjäger was the name given by the Prussian Army to scouts and runners. Conversely, in the modern German army (Bundeswehr), Feldjäger is the name given to military police. Jäger is usually translated into English as: "rifleman" (in an infantry role) or "Rifles" (in regimental names); and
The various names were a result of the complicated small arms nomenclature in Nazi Germany. Developed from the Mkb 42(H) "machine carbine", the 'StG44' combined traits of carbines, submachine guns and automatic rifles. StG is an abbreviation of Sturmgewehr. The name was chosen for propaganda reasons and means "assault rifle" as in "to assault a ...
Slightly heavier (5.9 tons) and taller (1.99 m) than the Ausf B, the klPzBefWg served with all Panzer units into the early war years. It received an additional 15 mm of armor later, and was moved to auxiliary duties by 1942. 184 were built by Daimler-Benz at the same time as Ausf B production, and six examples were built from Ausf A tanks. [10]
The 1st Ski Division (German: 1. Skijäger-Division) was a mountain infantry unit of the German Waffen-SS/Army trained to use skis for movement during winter. It was created on the Eastern Front in the autumn of 1943 in preparation for upcoming winter operations. It was enlarged into a full division in the summer of 1944.
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