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I've always admired the Mark IV and Mark V designs in the tank hunter (jagd?) configuration.

I've never posted an image before, so let's see if this works - a Mark IV in the tank hunter configuration:

How much? I'll never need to search for parking again!

ok Jagdpanther:






and also JAGDTIGER:

JAGDTIGER:
I was kicked off of a JagdTiger at the Aberdeen Tank Proving Grounds.

They are HUGE; like an apartment building on treads (with a big gun instead of a chimeny).

//BW

My favorite tank scene in a movie was in "Kelly's Heros"

There was some type of German tank that they all feared ( Kelly's group )

What kind of tank was that?

It was the Tiger tank (Pzkpfw V), which due to its far superior armor and gun outclassed the US Sherman tank and the British Cromwell. Only the Sherman firefly had any chance of penetrating the Tiger's armor at a distance, but they were in short supply in Normandy.

Fortunately for the allies, Tiger tanks were also in short supply, as was the petrol to drive them. The textbook example of the relative impunity which Tiger tanks enjoyed on the battle field was the action of captain Wittman who with a single Tiger tank stopped the advance of the entire British 7th armoured division, knocking out 20 Cromwell tanks, 4 fireflies, 3 light tanks, 3 armoured cars and a half-track in a single action.

Incidentally, what <b>John Bush</b> displays as Jagdpanthers are, from top to bottom, the Hetzer (built on the adapted carriage of a Czech light tank), the mark III sturmgeschütz, the mark IV sturmgeschütz (2 versions) and the Jagdpanther. Of the Jagdtigers, the first is built on a mark V undercarriage and the second on the undercarriage of the mark VI and it carried a massive 128 mm gun.

Thanks, Paaskynen.

My father commanded some time this altered version of Panzer I:



(Different to the pic, he only had the Red Cross on it for two days. He than removed it, because he didn't want to be a motorized/armoured prime target any more.)

hey Hitler your pic?....

Incidentally, what <b>John Bush</b> displays as Jagdpanthers are, from top to bottom, the Hetzer (built on the adapted carriage of a Czech light tank), the mark III sturmgeschütz, the mark IV sturmgeschütz (2 versions) and the Jagdpanther. Of the Jagdtigers, the first is built on a mark V undercarriage and the second on the undercarriage of the mark VI and it carried a massive 128 mm gun.[/quote]


paaskymem: Thanks a lot with the extra knowledge that was provided by you. thanks

sorry

first i deeply apologize for i replacing "hintler" with "hitler", it was all due to my damn inadvertence.

And then i admit that i really cant see your pic

at last : really sorry

Actually it is Hinteler, and my family is called such since at least 1287.

god what a guy of me!

John - I truly admire people who communicate across different languages and cultures as you do. I am very glad you've joined us at A2K....and don't worry about a few goofs in the English.

Thanks jim

Thanks for reminding me of that film, by the way. I particularly liked Donald Sutherland as the goofball, hippy-avant-la-date, tank commander.

I wonder if the allies ever used captured Tiger tanks in battle (Goofball seemed to be eager to ) It would make sense to use superior weaponry if you get your hands on it, but perhaps it would not have been practicable due to lack of spare parts (or a fear of drawing "friendly fire").

During the Winter War and the Continuation War the Finns used captured Russian tanks and guns in significant numbers (we had no choice, there was no supply from elswhere, or none that we could afford).

Rgrds,
P.

But actually German troops really had captured some soviet tanks (like T-34) after they found the advantage of them.
here are some photos of T-34 captured by German soldiers.

this was captured by German 10th. panzer division. Its code is PzKpfw T-34 747(r). ("r" stands for russia)

The T-34 captured by Germans in the Winter of 1942

this one:

And the T-34 that had been improved by Germans.

And dramatically a T-34 utilized by Germans was destroyed by their former owners in Kursk.