A German soldier in Westende, Belgium, washes a 1937 Opel Super 6 cabriolet by the coachbuilder Hebmüller, civilian car impressed into German military service. The tactical symbol for a motorized Pionier Company has been painted on the left front fender alongside a small letter "K" and above the Wehrmacht Heer prefix (WH). The right fender carries an unknown unit emblem. The car still carries the civilian license plate IZ-226285 where IZ is the prefix for the Rhine Provinz. Once officially incorporated into a German unit, the car would be assigned a military license plate. The German military and government license plate prefixes during WWII were: WH = Wehrmacht Heer (army), WM = Wehrmacht Marine (navy), WL = Wehrmacht Luftwaffe (air force), SS [runes] = Schutzstaffel, OT = Organization Todt, Pol = Polizei, DR = Deutsche Reichsbahn, and RP = Reichspost.
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https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=73232&p=2125953#p2125953
http://www.lonesentry.com/features/f41_german-military-car.html
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