CZK - OPp 1t N (Sd.Kfz.250 a jeho modifikácie v československej armáde)

Sd.Kfz. 250 in the Czechoslovak Army
Listening to my dad's stories as a kid, reminiscing about his military beginnings (circa 1948), apart from the Cromwell, Stuart and Humber armoured vehicle (Humber Scout Car), there was also the terminus technicus "short hakl"...
Over time, we have identified it as a vehicle Sd.Kfz. 250, but with the exception of a single photo of this type in Sd.Kfz. 250/9 and probably with a red three-digit number (published in a magazine or subject book), all attempts to confirm its existence in the armament of the then Czechoslovak Army have failed....
Until I recently received a neatly "clipped" scan from a friend of mine from a magazine (probably Czechoslovak Soldier, judging by the "quality" of the printing) with the comment that the text was basically a banal agitprop on the subject of training of scouts and the fight against laziness of greasers and against bullying...

The context of the commentary on the training pictures basically fits exactly with the recollections of my father, who served in a reconnaissance platoon or company of a tank-propelled regiment, which for a time was armed with trophy and foreign equipment.

It is most likely a variant of the Sd.Kfz. 250/1 Ausf. B with a simplified hull, the vehicle lacks the Notek reflector and the machine gun armour shield.
I practically rule out that it could be a reconnaissance version Sd.Kfz. 250/5, as the armoured "box" on the left side near the upper edge of the armour is missing, covering the typical antenna joint for this variant, and I doubt that it could be a turret-less variant Sd.Kfz. 250/9 - that would probably make the picture of the soldiers jumping out of the vehicle after it was "shot" look different.
Also worth noting the armament of the scouts (folding "pumps"), the gear of the marker and the training scouts ("camouflage" hoods and boots with buckles - I hope I'm not mistaken)...

I suppose that there will be a good man who will add the number of vehicles of this type, which were in the armament of the Czechoslovak army at a certain date.

magazine Československý voják

Just ask. Just a colleague of Jirka contributed in the discussion about OT-810. The question about half-tracks in Czechoslovakia. army at https://www.vojenstvi.cz is I guess mine (sclerosis). I came across another designation Sd.Kfz.250, namely D7P .



The same numbers figure in question 700.

A note about the "Czechoslovak soldier" and J. Tintěra's contribution in another topic reminded me that I could also find something, two photos of the older version are from the year 1954 (if I did not write it down wrong)

And the second one, both of them suddenly don't want to take it from me I don't know what kind of unit it is, but the first one is quite a lot of them, so maybe it can be infantry and not scouts, but who knows.

No, vozidlo, označené taktickým číslem 2 na čelním listu pancíře se stalo objektem (rozuměj cílem) léčky - zásek ze stromu a dým z bojového prostoru je dost výmluvný...
Za chvíli se to bude "mlít" . Takže - opět snímek z výcviku průzkumníků.

In the magazine Naše vojsko year 1951 No. 24, I discovered an article about landscaping in a military camp, where a "combat vehicle and plow ..." was used to plow a furrow before planting trees.

Twice more Sd.Kfz. 250 Ausf.B from our army. * source: Magazine Czechoslovak Soldier year 1957

Light armored personnel carrier D 7 - reconnaissance vehicle of Czechoslovak army

After the end of World War II, the lack of reconnaissance vehicles forced the leadership of the Czechoslovak Army to introduce temporarily into service Sd.Kfz.250 / 1 under the designation "light armored personnel carrier D-7p". The repair of 154 of these transporters was provided in the years 1948 to 1955 by the Automobile Armory 1 Přelouč.

Organizationally, about 110 pieces of D-7p were incorporated into the armament of motorized battalions of rapid divisions, instructional and self-propelled battalions. The remaining 44 transporters were assigned by the Czechoslovak General Staff to Army Artillery Command. In the years 1951 - 1958, the D-7p was used by reconnaissance units of mechanized and partly also rifle divisions.

After the reorganization Czechoslovak Army in October 1958 took over 136 operations capable D-7p and created motorized rifle army. It used vehicles until the summer of 1963, when they were withdrawn from service by order of the Chief of General Staff and scrapped in 1964 in the Military Repair Company 026 Šternberk. For museum purposes, two vehicles were left in Slovakia, one for the Military History Museum of the SNP in Banská Bystrica and the other for the Duklian Museum in Svidník.


Source Mgr. Gabriel Blaško: VHÚ-VHM Piešťany - Museum Department Svidník, "German Explorer", Defense 2013, No.12, ISSN 1336-1910 - monthly MO SR

Sd.Kfz 250 Neu in the movie of 1957:

Po skončení 2. svetovej vojny zanechali kapitulujúce nemecké jednotky stovky obrnených vozidiel rôznych typov. Medzi nimi sa nachádzal i nemecký ľahký obrnený transportér Sd.Kfz. 250 rôznych verzií. V období zberu trofejnej techniky koncom 40. rokov 20. storočia bolo zhromaždených okolo 200 týchto obrnených vozidiel. Vozidlá prešli opravou v Leteckej továrni Slaný (ČKD) a AZ 1. Presné počty opráv však nie sú dostupné. Opravy boli prevedené a armáde boli dodané prevažne v období rokov 1947 - 1949. Malé obrnené transportéry sa používali prevažne k prieskumným činnostiam v peších plukoch a práporoch. Evidenčné čísla vozidiel neboli v ucelených radách, ale boli prideľované priebežne počas ich odovzdávania armáde. Prelínali sa tak s inými typmi vozidiel, resp. s číslami im priradenými.

Najviac vozidiel sa sústredilo v pechotných a ženijných jednotkách Tankového zboru. Jeho 13. prápor mal koncom roka 1950 vo svojom náhradnom oddieli v Olomouci okrem väčších OPp 3t N (42 ks) i 16 ks OPp 1t N (používanejšie bolo pôvodné nemecké označenie D 7p).
Ďalšie D 7p v počte 11 vozidiel mal olomoucký 6. peší pluk.
Po reorganizácii v rokoch 1950/51 sa mali obrnené transportéry sústrediť v evidencii Veliteľstva tankových a mechanizovaných vojsk (VTMV). Vozidlá mali byť presunuté k novovznikajúcim tankovým a mechanizovaným divíziám. V tom čase malo VTMV k dispozícii 55 vozidiel D 7p.
Ku koncu roka 1953 armáda evidovala 199 vozidiel D 7p.

Stav D 7p k 3/1955:


Ďalšie vozidlá D 7p boli jednotlivo zaradené v rôznych ďalších jednotkách a v opravách.

K 1.4.1956 bolo rozhodnuté o nahradení opotrebovaných obrnených transportérov nákladnými vozidlami Praga V3S a Tatra 805.
Technický stav doposiaľ slúžiacich obrnených transportérov bol jednotlivo ohodnetený a to takto:


Napriek plánom na postupné rušenie jednotlivých vozidiel od cca roku 1956, bola ich potreba a slušný technický stav predpokladom na to, že slúžili ešte ďalšie roky.
K 1.12.1959 armáda eviduje 138 vozidiel D 7p (26 vozidiel čakalo v Tankoopravárenskom závode č. 26 v Šternberku na zrušenie). Prvosledové vševojskové divízie mali v stave ešte stále veľké počty týchto obrnených transportérov. Dátum ich úplného vyradenia pravdepodobne siaha až do 60. rokov 20. storočia (viď. presun niektorých vozidiel do zbierok československých múzeí v roku 1964).

Známe evidenčné čísla OPp 1t N:

armada.vojenstvi.cz
korešpondencia s Marianom Uhrinom, Múzeum SNP v Banskej Bystrici
¹⁾www.vhu.sk

Přemístění a činnost velitelského pozorovacího stanoviště (1957) - inštruktážny film Československej armády.

The Coward, 1961