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the long warred's avatar

Sesquipedalisch.

Actually sounds better.

Harald Gormsson's avatar

“In 1943, the standard German infantry regiment lost its junior battalions and, with it, its ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth companies.” So it lost one of its junior battalions and became similar to the panzer regiments?

Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson's avatar

Yes, the Schützen regiments of the early war Panzer divisions were two battalion outfits.