Re: Ship Prefix's
From: Joachim Heck - SunSoft <jheck@E...>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:33:50 -0400
Subject: Re: Ship Prefix's
Stuart Ford writes:
@:) I have just been informed (a.k.a. I bugged one of my native
@:) German speeking co-workers) that "schwebepanzer" would be the
@:) correct term as "schwebepanzerkampfwagen" contained a bit more
@:) information than needed.
From my (limited but still it was my first language) knowledge of
German, I would guess that the term "Panzerkampfwagen" is used only by
American devotees of German military history.
-joachim
PS also, it was still funny, but they knew he didn't mean to call
himself a jelly doughnut.