Plate01: Perhaps the best-known Sd.Kfz.250 ever built. Rommel’s Sd.Kfz.250/3 leichter Funkpanzerwagen “Greif”, often misquoted as a Sd.Kfz.250/5 leichter Beobachtungspanzerwagen it most definitely is a Sd.Kfz.250/3. The soldier standing on the left is standing on the seat box seen in the Sd.Kfz.250/3 series, but missing from the Sd.Kfz.250/5 series of half-tracks. It is a middle production vehicle with the track mounted semaphore indicators, but has the earlier medium height indicators. Of note is the spare aerial in its own brackets with a supplementary support tip of the semaphore.
The leather cover for the Notek light is still in place, the headlights have their own factory lens covers made of leather, the tracks hanging from the front lifting hooks, as does the tow cable. In the background to the right is Rommel’s personal Horch Kfz.21 Funkbefehlwagen plus a Kfz.15 Dienstwagen to the left,