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Re: Direct Communication Between German Troops and LW Aircraft?
Hello
only to add to Pieter's excellent post that also some of SdKfz 250/3s were equipped with air-to-ground radios. SdKfz 250 was a smaller armoured half-track but similar to the bigger SdKfz 251.
On timing, according to Florian K. Rothbrust's Guderian's XIXth Panzer Corps and the Battle of France. New York 1990 p.41 during the planning of the attack 1st PzDiv had requested permission for its panzer crews to talk directly to Stuka pilots, to guide them to their targets but Nahkampfführer II (of the Fliegerkorps II) rejected the idea on the grounds that the still technically inferior equipment would not allow that and that he did not want ambitious young tank commanders to divert Stukas destined elsewhere.
Juha
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