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« on: 23-04-2024, 05:04:44 »
Flak train captured in Germany, 2 May 1945.
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Flak train captured in Germany, 2 May 1945.
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Off-Topic / Re: Picture of the Day
« on: 21-04-2024, 08:04:16 »
Streckenschutzzug "Berlin" at its final destination - the south of Seelow (Vorwerk Ludwigslust; modern-day Friedersdorf, Vierlinden) - after being destroyed by Soviet aircraft and artillery on 16-17 April 1945. Fairly intact looking Panther Ausf. A has been secured to the flatbed with steel cables.
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Track protection train "Berlin" was built by Krupp-Drunckenmüller in Berlin-Tempelhof and it left the factory on 12 February 1945 to operate between Ludwigslust and Werbig.
The train had five flatcars with immobile Panthers, "tanks equipped with 88mm guns", and/or disabled Panzer IV Ausf. Hs. Reportedly, about 56 Soviet tanks were claimed by the train. Krupp-Drunckenmüller also prepared 22 damaged Pz IV and Panthers for the Panzer-Kompanie (bodenständig) "Berlin".
Source: "Marshal Zhukov at the Oder" by Tony Le Tissier, "PanzerZug!" by Glen Coomber and "Panzers in Berlin 1945".
The train had five flatcars with immobile Panthers, "tanks equipped with 88mm guns", and/or disabled Panzer IV Ausf. Hs. Reportedly, about 56 Soviet tanks were claimed by the train. Krupp-Drunckenmüller also prepared 22 damaged Pz IV and Panthers for the Panzer-Kompanie (bodenständig) "Berlin".
Source: "Marshal Zhukov at the Oder" by Tony Le Tissier, "PanzerZug!" by Glen Coomber and "Panzers in Berlin 1945".
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« on: 20-04-2024, 13:04:57 »
Panzer IV L/70(V) wreck in Ardennes, January 1945. This one was built in October 1944, complete with 'ambush camouflage'.
Trivia-bit: at the start of the Ardennes Offensive there were 210 Panzer IV/70(V) available with the units, reinforced by another 90 in early '45.
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« on: 18-04-2024, 17:04:01 »
Beutepanzer M2, originally captured from the 275th Armored Field Artillery Battalion at St. Vith.
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« on: 15-04-2024, 16:04:40 »
You sure about metal though? 
Mitteltragheim, April 1945.
Mitteltragheim, April 1945.
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« on: 14-04-2024, 07:04:27 »
67th Guards Heavy Tank Brigade, 5th Shock Army on it's way to Berlin, March 1945.
Trivia-bit: the formation lost 343 personnel killed or wounded in Berlin. 12 IS-2 were burnt out by AT and tank/SPG fire, while 18 were destroyed by Panzerfaust. 41 tanks were damaged but later repaired. This represents a 109% loss ratio, meaning that many tanks were repaired more than once.
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On 4 March 1945, it was adviced that the commanders of the brigade should stop drinking among the personnel and increase military discipline.
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« on: 13-04-2024, 16:04:38 »
Sd.Kfz. 7/1 für 2 cm Flakvierling 38/1 of Panzerjäger-Abteilung 29 crossing the Bug River, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, June 1941.
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« on: 09-04-2024, 07:04:48 »
Detail from the Enso Parade, featuring support vehicles of the Assault Gun Battalion. From left to right - Steyr Typ 1500 A/02 FuKW as a parade conductor, DKW NZ 350 ccm, BA-20M, VW Typ 82 and Ford V 3000 S trucks. Pelkola, 4 June 1944.
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Initially, Finland received 4x Steyr Typ 1500 A/02 (Kfz. 15 and 17 types), 11x DKW NZ 350 ccm, 8x VW Typ 82, 18x Ford trucks + 3x Opel Kapitän Pkw (m 1939), 5x Büssing-NAG type 4500 A Lkw, 14x Lkw Ford V/8 Maultier and 2x Sd.Kfz.9 in January 1944. Further deliveries followed until the fall of '44.
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« on: 05-04-2024, 06:04:06 »
StuG.Abt. 185 in Estonia, the summer of 1941.
