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Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "What was the Point of Langermann's 24th Panzer Corps? (And more...) Stalingrad Addendum 4" video.
It was a common practice in the Heer for divisions to swap around corps. Hence it was common for a corps commander to have as few as one to as many as six divisions under his command. These links would even shift from day to day. In the case of the Leaping Horsemen they were over-staffed with talent precisely so that they would truly come up to speed with their panzer brothers in double-quick time. That's why the 24th had so many command tanks -- double what you'd expect. Remember that command tanks are Mark IIIs with only dummy main guns -- and stuffed with extra radios and a map table. Yes, it swung up and away when not needed. This scheme was abandoned when the Mark III was pulled from front line duty. Command tanks were supposed to blend in with the main battle tanks, of course.
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