Last Days of May, errata questions

[leonard]

  W15TCC.docx (Size: 45.99 KB / Downloads: 4)     So what is a WT15? It looks like a 47mm APX portee to me. But with a higher DF.

Is it that Belgian thing? Should it be tracked? 1 or 2 steps?

PS: I think I found it. What can I say but, really?

Weapons en portée on trucks were popular during WW1. The W15TCC tank destroyer was naturally born out of that tradition when an armored prototype was built in 1939. The prototype was made of a Laffly W15T wheeled tractor mounting the excellent 47mm APX AT piece on its rear deck. However performant, the vehicle was not accepted for production (preference was given to the Somua SAU 40). On 24 May 1940, in full urgency, 10 X tank destroyer batteries were ordered. The W15TCCs eventually reached 70 in numbers and 12 batteries were built in just a few weeks. Unlike the prototype, the serie W15TCC was only lightly armored : FT17 armored plates were used to protect the gun shield, roof and forward shield of the vehicle. the vehicle armament was completed with a FM24/29. CC stands for "Contre Chars" (= anti-tank).
The BACA (batterie antichar automotrice = AT SP battery) was:
12 NCOs
73 men
5 X W15TCC
3 X 25mm AA (25 CA modèle 39) + trucks