Great, thanks for the info Will! So I guess it’s case closed ? I do think the first letter after 5/ could be an E and then maybe an i but I’m not too sure if these units also build normal bridges not related to trains.
Greetings
Anon
Great, thanks for the info Will! So I guess it’s case closed ? I do think the first letter after 5/ could be an E and then maybe an i but I’m not too sure if these units also build normal bridges not related to trains.
Greetings
Anon
No worries Anon.
I can't say it is case closed, but with the evidence we have, 5./Eisenbahn Pionier regiment 2 seems likely.
I would think that all of the soldiers would have undertaken pionier training, then would have received specialist training related to trains, so they would have been able to do anything a normal pionier unit would have done.
Kind regards,
Will.
To me it reads 20T Langsam Fahren (drive slowy)
Agree the unit is 5 Kompanie Eisenbahn Pi Rgt 2
20 t for me would have been a weight limit, (usually for a bridge). Add to the Langsam Fahren and I think it is an instruction for a crossing point.
I throw it in for what it is worth.
[QUOTE=vegetius;2261065]20 t for me would have been a weight limit, (usually for a bridge).
I would say that is exactly what 20t means in this context.
The wartime precursor to the NATO Military Load Classification (MLC) system;
Military Load Classification - Wikipedia
that, during the cold war saw virtually every bridge etc in W. Germany and most in mainland Europe displaying an MLC plate at either end
and all military vehicles with individual MLC plates aka "Bridging plates" so the 20t is the max load for a crossing vehicle and is qualified by the instruction to drive slowly.
The subsequent unit title stands as a kind of "signature" identifying the unit responsible for the crossing.
Sorry if that is "stating the blindingly obvious" but I suppose we have to allow that it might not be obvious to the next person to read the thread
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Thanks for all the help guys! It’s nice to put more small details in the pictures and story’s from relatives.
Best regards
Anon
Agreed Vegetius & Watchdog, I'd assumed that much was probably obvious.
Thank you both for explaining what I failed to, having assumed that we all knew what bridge classifications were.
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