He then goes on to say this only scratches the surface, with many inconsistencies and variations. The system could be expanded to four numbers, in which case the first number indicated the Brigade. Therefore 100 was the battalion commander's tank, 110 was command tank of first platoon first company, 114 was command tank of 2nd platoon first company.

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the first number indicated the brigade, the second and third numbers were issued to all 65 tanks of the brigade consecutively. was eventually supplanted by two- and three- digit numbers without hyphens or letter in 19. The meaning of the numbers varied from unit to unit. By coincidence I stumbled upon a (partial) answer to this question in an old Zaloga book of mine.

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