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Kirkhill said:We ended up where we are because we put "infantry" into armoured, tracked trucks and called it mech infantry following American practice. The Americans however, also created something called armoured infantry dedicated to the IFV Bradley. The Brits followed as did the Russians and everybody else. All following Germany's lead with its Panzergrenadiers and the Marder. Some Americans are now referring to the Armoured Infantry as Dragoons.
The marder was a anti-tank veh with a 75 or 88mm canon mounted on e pz 2 chassis. The veh you are talking about is the KMPF 251, a half-track veh mounted by 8 soldiers and equiped with 2 mg's (I know this for shure, my grandfather did serve into one of those
Edited to trim the quote down to only the referenced para.