Weapons and Equipment
of 21. Panzer Division

The 21. Panzer Division used much equipment built from French stocks captured in the 1940 conquest.
Items below may not be exactly what was used in the Division, but serve to illustrate what
may have been used. Pictures showing true 21. Division vehicles and equipment are noted.

Schutzenpanzerwagen U 304 (f).1.	Business end of PaK 43/41 88mm ATG2.
Side view of 88mm ATG3.	Gunner's view4.
20-barrelled 81mm mortar on Somua MCG S 307 (f) as used in 21st Panzer5.	Leutnant Hans Höller's SP 75mm AT gun 6.
10.5cm sFH 18/40 on GW H39 (f). 7.	Side view 8.
15cm sFH 13/1 auf Geschutzwagen Lorraine-S (f). SdKfz 135/1. As used in 21st Panzer. 9.	PzKpw IV Aust H of Pz Rgt 22, dug in near Caen. Photo taken 13 July 1944. 10.
PzKpw V Panther tank. As used in 21st Panzer. 11.	7.5cm PaK 40 on Somua MCG S 307(f) chassis as used in 21st Panzer. 12.
7.5cm PaK 40 on Somua MCG S 307(f) . Dug in 21st Panzer vehicle at Cairon before D-Day.13.

PICTURE NOTES:

1.) Picture from US Army on pg 57, Steven J Zaloga and George Balin, D-Day Tank Warfare, Concord Publications, Hong Kong, 1994. Used in 125th, 192nd Panzer Grenadier Regts.

2-4) These pictures were taken on the grounds of the US Army War College at Carlisle, PA. This type of
88mm Anti-tank gun was used by Panzer-Jaeger Abt 200.

5) Picture from US National Archives on pg 22, Steven J Zaloga and George Balin,D-Day Tank Warfare, Concord Publications, Hong Kong, 1994.

6) Picture from pg 68: Carl Shilleto, Battleground Europe: Pegasus Bridge and Merville Battery, Combined Publishing, Conshohocken, PA,1999, showing an SP gun from 8th Heavy Ko.(Lt. Hans Höller), 192 Pz Gren Regt., June 1944.

7) Picture from pg 22, Yves Buffetaut, Les Grandes Batailles de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, No. 12, La Campagne de Normandie (1), Histoire & Collections, Paris, France, 1994. Vehicles of this type were used in Sturmgeschutz Abt 200.

8) Picture from pg 33, Georges Bernage and Jean-Pierre Benamou, “Goodwood “ Bombardement géant anti-panzers, Editions Heimdall,1994.

9) Picture from US Army on pg 23, Steven J Zaloga and George Balin, D-Day Tank Warfare, Concord Publications, Hong Kong, 1994. Used in III. Abt, Panzer Artillery Rgt 155.

10) Picture from the Tank Museum on pg 44 , Steven J Zaloga and George Balin, D-Day Tank Warfare, Concord Publications, Hong Kong, 1994. Tank from Pz. Rgt. 22.

11) Picture from Sirpa/ECP Armees France (ECPA) on pg 53, John K. Small, editor, Allied-Axis, The Photo Journal of the Second World War, Issue 1, Panther Attack in Alsace-Lorraine, Ampersand Publishing Co., Florida, 2000. This Panther is identified as belonging to Panzer Brigade 111.

12) Picture from US National Archives on pg 22, Steven J Zaloga and George Balin, D-Day Tank Warfare, Concord Publications, Hong Kong, 1994.

13) Picture from Alexander McKee, Caen Anvil of Victory, Dorset  Press, New York, 2001.

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