(May 2, 2018 at 6:09 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:Thus speaketh Wiki:(May 2, 2018 at 1:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Certainly not the standard German potato-masher grenade.
Only a minority of german Grenades were of the potato masher type.
(May 2, 2018 at 2:03 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
Is that where the term panzer grenadier came from?
Quote:Panzergrenadier (pronunciation (help·info)), shortened as PzGren (modern) or PzG (WWII), is a German term for motorised or mechanized infantry – that is, infantry transported in combat vehicles specialized for such tasks – as introduced during World War II. It is used in the armies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
However, in the German Army, Panzergrenadier (Pzg) is also the lowest rank of enlisted men (Mannschaften) in the Panzergrenadiertruppe, comparable to NATO Other Rank-1 level.