A company of Panzergrenadiers in the summer of 1944. The three color camouflage pattern is quite visible. Though not identical, the patterns are very similar and feature sharp, straight line borders. The APCs nearest the camera are Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf.D but in the background can be seen two Sd.Kfz.251/9 Ausf.D armed with the 7.5cm KwK 37 L/25 tank gun as well as another two even farther in the background.
A shot of "GroBdeutschland" in East Prussia in the autumn of 1944. There are six Sd.Kfz.251 Ausf.D in the background while the 7.5cm barrel of a Panther, camouflaged with foliage, can be seen in the foreground. The "GD" was one of the best divisions in the Wehrmacht at this time, not only due to the priority in replacement of equipment, but also due to the large numbers of volunteers who had been incorporated into this unit throughout the war.
The crews of heavily camouflaged Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf.Ds from Panzer-Grenadier-Division "GroBdeutschland" rest by a lakeside in East Prussia, autumn of 1944. The vehicles are painted with a criss-cross camouflage pattern, probably brown in color, which was used in the early spring and autumn seasons to blend with the natural landscape colors. The standard Wehrmacht armored infantry divisions, known as Panzergrenadier divisions, were equipped in 1944 with about 90 APCs but the elite units, "GroBdeutschland" for example, employed many more, mainly in the first battalions of its Grenadier and Fusilier regiments. 31