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1:35 German Horse Drawn Field Kitchen

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1:35 German Horse Drawn Field Kitchen
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The 'Tross' or train of a company or battery in the Wehrmacht was
composed of three groups, the combat train, the baggage train
and the ration train. The latter was equipped with a field
kitchen for the company and suitable transport for the rations.
The actual type of field kitchen and ration vehicle (or vehicles)
depended on the type of unit - horse - or truck-drawn - in an
ordinary infantry division, but sometimes completely truck drawn
in a panzer division or other types of machanised division.
Within a division, ration supply was organised through a
distributing point, and distribution to the ration trains within
the division was made daily at this point, iperational
commitments permitting. Within the company each man carried in
his pack or bread bag one day's rations, and one further day's
rations was carried in the unit field kitchen, with a further two
day's rations in the supply transport of the unit. A further
supply of one day's rations was carried in the divisional supply
columns. The supply problem was formidable when it is considered
that to supply daily rations for each man in a typical division
there was a requirement for 12 tons of bread, 2.88 tons of meat,
2.88 tons of peas, and 1.92 tons of wurst (sausage), plus
proportionate quantities of coffee, sugar, butter and salt. A
typical field kitchen was horse-drawn behind a two man limber and
had cart wheels. There were several varying patterns of field
kitchen and alternative pneumatic-tired wheels could be fitted if
the kitchen was drawn by a truck.