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Saturday 25 May 2013

The Swedish Platoon from 1921-1937

Each platoon was made up of four squads. Each squad had 12 men, eleven with rifles and one with a light machine gun called kg mg/21. It was based on the american BAR 1918. In 1937 it was up-graded and the new model was called kg m/37.
The squad was lead by a Sergeant and he was assisted by a Corporal. The platoon was lead by an Lieutenant and he was assisted by an Sergeant. The Lieutenant also had two runners.
A platoon is made up of 52 persons. One Lieutenant, five Sergeants, four Corporals, two runners, four machine gunners and 36 riflemen.

4 comments:

  1. Very interesting information !!!

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  2. Quite large squads compared to other countries at the time-I wonder why?

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  3. What was the organisation for cavalry at this period?

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  4. Yes, pretty big. I think it could be because the Swedish army was a little backward.
    I'm afraid I don't know, haven't had time to research it yet. I have to find a good book about it.

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