Picture of the Day

[nysä]

Seth - that's a second Pz.Slf.IV within a month. A hint, perhaps? Belarus map coming up? Stalingrad? 

Sorry to disappoint you but i'm focusing on France40 until we release it !

Just curious! Cannot wait for the Blitzkrieg 

[Matthew_Baker]

Anymore info on that pic? Looks like drivers of the Red Ball Express having a photo op next to a Panzer I, so I'd guess somewhere in France, 44.

[nysä]

This one is a mystery, even to the owner of the photograph. But yes, the year is 1944-45.

[Leopardi]

Suursaari September 17th 1944

[nysä]

Scheibenhardt, occupied by the 2nd Battalion of the 4th Tunisian Tirailleurs Regiment, after being shelled by the Algerian Infantry Division. March 1945.

[nysä]

Destroyed Befehlspanther Ausf. A, somewhere in Germany 1945.
Ed: likely the "Cologne Panther", with additional target shooting damage.

[Leopardi]

[nysä]

[nysä]

[Matthew_Baker]

3rd Panzer Dvision? I wonder what color the numbers are.

[nysä]

Yup. Red numbers with white outlines.

[Matthew_Baker]

It's interesting because the majority of 3.PzDiv tank photos seem to have 'hollow' numbers with just the white outline. But certainly a few show the insides colored like most of 7.PzDiv. Even this kleiner Panzerbefehlswagen I seems to only have white outlines in some photos, but then a clear coloring in another;




Do you think there's any credence to the idea that the colors may have been based on the traditional bayonet-knot scheme? So multicolored to some extent?

[Seth_Soldier]

[nysä]

I think so. The Germans had quite loose standardization in the numbering (incl. the colours) used during the French campaign, but it was getting "there". I have only read "To The Gates of Moscow with the 3rd Panzer Division", so that's my sole source on this colour topic. I'll ask around if anyone has some slides from the spring of 1940.




Montreal Locomotive Works, 1942.

[Leopardi]