6th PzD - OOB Question - Stalingrad

[Richrd]

I'm not sold. There were not a whole lot of StuG battalions and most of them can be accounted for. Why would a brand new battalion be formed according to a TOE which had already been discarded? It took the 6th Pz a month to get to s. Russia. So the 228th, once the orders had been issued for it's formation, lets just say on the very first day of november, had to assemble it's personnel and equipment, shake out it's command staff, familiarise itself with it's powerful new equipment, brief the crews on new tactics, provision itself, entrain, and chug all the way across to the easternmost extreme of Hitlers diminishing empire. It seems to me that this will take a little while.