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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17820 on: 06-05-2021, 06:05:23 »


German and Romanian remains on Cossack Bay, near Sevastopol, May 1944.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17821 on: 07-05-2021, 06:05:39 »


Kovel, April 1944.

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« Reply #17822 on: 08-05-2021, 06:05:01 »


Poznań 1945.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17823 on: 09-05-2021, 04:05:03 »


Final production Jagdpanzer 38 by Škoda.
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Note the two small notches on the Rundumfeuer-MG shield for 150 round Gurtsack, only seen on late production JgPz 38s.


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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17824 on: 10-05-2021, 05:05:33 »


In original colour: Sd.Kfz. 233 and Pz.Kpfw. II Ausf. F from Pz.Abt. 190, 90. leichte-Division captured by the 1st Ranger Battalion at El Guettar (Tunis), the spring of 1943.
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Pz.Kpfw. II Ausf. F still exists and basically in running condition, at U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection, Fort Benning, GA.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17825 on: 10-05-2021, 17:05:09 »
That's a cool photo, going to post it on the discord for ppl. True color photos are hard to find, can still see the dunkelgrau underneath. That yellow circle on the PzII hull is an addition by the Rangers I guess? I wonder it's significance.

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« Reply #17826 on: 11-05-2021, 02:05:58 »
That yellow circle on the PzII hull is an addition by the Rangers I guess? I wonder it's significance.

It's a Presidential Unit Citation, earned by the 1st Rangers.





Tiger B (with a pre-production turret) from Panzergruppe Paderborn, left behind in the front of Gasthof Klosterkrug (Falkenhagen), April 1945.
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Formed at the end of March 1945, out of the training tanks of Panzer-Ersatz-Abteilung 500. In the end, the unit had:

15 x Tiger E
3-4 x Tiger B
4 x Panther
3 x Pz.Kpfw. III


In comparison, 13 x Tiger E and 12 x Tiger B, 21 x Panther were available in Berlin area, 16 April 1945.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17827 on: 11-05-2021, 03:05:50 »
That yellow circle on the PzII hull is an addition by the Rangers I guess? I wonder it's significance.

It's a Presidential Unit Citation, earned by the 1st Rangers.

Do you have any more info on where you found that? It's hard to see how a presidential unit citation of a blue rectangle with a gold border would translate to that circle with stripes.

Someone on missing lynx suggested it's an 18th Infantry Regiment marking with the 1st ID, but that doesn't seem to make sense either.

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« Reply #17828 on: 11-05-2021, 07:05:02 »
Someone on missing lynx suggested it's an 18th Infantry Regiment marking with the 1st ID, but that doesn't seem to make sense either.

Either huh?

http://armorfortheages.com/MilitaryVehicles/PzKpfwII/PzKpfwII.html

This has been also mentioned in few books and booklets on the topic (Panzerwrecks or such), I'll see what I can find.
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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17829 on: 11-05-2021, 17:05:29 »
Either huh?

http://armorfortheages.com/MilitaryVehicles/PzKpfwII/PzKpfwII.html

This has been also mentioned in few books and booklets on the topic (Panzerwrecks or such), I'll see what I can find.

"Huh," would be a good way to put it. I'm curious how the distinguished unit citation would manifest itself as that, when the ribbon looks very different. Although the Executive Order states that;

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An appropriate streamer, emblem, or guidon band, of such form and design as may be determined by the Secretary of War, may be displayed by the organization, unit, detachment, or installation described above, to which such citation is issued.

Would be interested to read more documentation of where that emblem/ insignia comes from.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17830 on: 12-05-2021, 05:05:41 »
Would be interested to read more documentation of where that emblem/ insignia comes from.

I contacted the guys at old Patton, maybe they can explain it.





Seelow, April 1945.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17831 on: 12-05-2021, 10:05:44 »

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17832 on: 13-05-2021, 07:05:12 »


6.5 mm M/14 being used in Granholm coastal fort in area of Hanko Peninsula, September 1941.

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17833 on: 14-05-2021, 07:05:14 »


StuG III Ausf. G (MIAG, 03-05.44 prod.).

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Re: Picture of the Day
« Reply #17834 on: 15-05-2021, 07:05:28 »


Nettuno-Anzio.