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Hey Patreons!

This is the unit symbol I've created for the 377th Anti-Aircraft Armoured Train Battalion. This is probably the most obscure and unique unit to participate at the Battle of Stalingrad. No, it didn't drive into the city itself, and yes, technically it should be "377 AAAT" but I don't think anyone will notice the missing A. There's simply no room for it unless I make the text smaller, but then you won't see it when I zoom out, so two A's it is.

The reason I'm posting this is because I've been working on some of the Battlestorm Stalingrad units today, and this is one of the more obscure units on the insanely long list of units that I've slowly started working through.

Other units include - the "Krasnodar Machine Gun-Mortar School" (yes, School), "Women's Antitank and Antiaircraft Unit" (this one is kinda famous), "Kampfgruppe Waldow" (where's Waldow? At Stalingrad apparently!), and "912th Assault Boat Commando" (because everybody needs assault boats on the Russian Steppe).

Then there's units I'm going to enjoy pronouncing, like "Kampfgruppe Tzschöckel", and "Group Obergehtmann" (just rolls off the tongue).

And because of these units, I'm now on a quest to find more silly, obscure or hard-to-pronounce units, and their histories. Doesn't matter if they took part in Stalingrad or not, I just want to hear about them. And perhaps I can make smaller Their Story videos about them at some point. So if anyone has any information about these units, or knows where I can get more information about these units from, or knows of other obscure units, I'd be very grateful for the info.

And a quick update - my Battlestorm Stalingrad Research is at 309,293 words as of today. Thank you all for your continuing support! I'm planning on uploading a proper Patreon-only update video on Monday (my next day off work). If you have any questions, nows the time to ask!

Thanks!

P.S. Jeff, I will reply to you at some point! Probably tomorrow :)

P.S.S. I prefer "Where's Wally?" to Waldo. According to Wikipedia, the German version is Walter, and the Russian is Uolli. So will we find a Kampfgruppe Walter or Group Uolli at Stalingrad? Let's wait and see ;)

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Anonymous

They are fairly common, and at times practical, but always loved bicycle units.

Anonymous

Like it! Very cool.

TIKhistory

True although for me it's the same with cavalry units. They didn't fight on the bicycles or horses, they just rode into battle on them, but it's still funny that these "modern" militaries in WW2 had to use bicycles and horses because they hadn't yet made the transition to trucks and tanks.