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A quick n' dirty answer: Most vechiles used gasoline. A few used diesel, the PzKpfw 38(t) and SdKfz 234 as I recall (but don't take my word for it, I'm going by memory here). At least in part, the choice of petrol for the Germans was based on the fact that for the attack on France, panzers could ref...

This doesn't make much sense. If it was an official text on the ammo boxes, why would German soldiers have to be told not to be stingy with the ammo? Was a new text, telling soldiers to save ammo, printed on the ammo boxes later in the war? Now, if it was some sort of semi-official "slogan"...

To answer with a question: Why weren't helicopters used as tank killers in the Korean War, a decade later? Survivability, realiability, performance, payload and weapons efficiency are the keywords here.

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krise madsen

I googled "sturmpanther". Just the one line drawing, but there were some pics of a Sturmpanther model that might be of help

Good luck with your project :)

krise madsen

Generally speaking, WW2 small arms are, to an extent, still useful today. Bigger mechanical "items" (i.e. tanks, aircraft and the like) are not. The very simple reason is that while tanks and aircraft have been the subject of massive technological development since the end of WW2, small ar...

Greetings Politruk First of all, I think some corrections are in order. The 7.5cm L/24 gun you refer to was in fact the KwK37 L/24 or StuK37 L/24 as mounted on early StuG III's (A-E), and the PzKpfw III ausf. N. This was a rather different weapon than the 7.5cm leIG18, even though they fired shells ...

I wouldn't want to speculate on the model either, other than to say that the split hatch would rule out the latest Panzer III's (though that still leaves most of the versions out there!).

Yes, the Faustpatrone was an early name for the Panzerfaust (the early Kleine Panzerfaust, that is), simply replace "Faustpatrone" with "Panzerfaust".

I suppose you could also translate it as "version"

I think the correct term is "Jerry", not "Gerry". I've also heard of German officers having "halzschmertzen" (dunno if I spelled that correctly) i.e. "neck pains" meaning that they wanted a Ritterkreutz.

Obviously, the Tiger II design drew on experience with the Panther, notably the sloped armour. Tiger II production and design was in fact intended to coincide with the Panther II, and the two were to share as many parts as possible. As it happened, the Panther II never entered production, and in fac...

Thank you for your reply, von_noobie. Good info. However, you might want to consider turning your caps lock off the next time you post....

Recently saw a TV series where one person fired a British Lee Enfield (No. 1 I think, but I'm not sure) left-handed, working the bolt handle with his left hand, and rather quickly and effectively too. It was just TV, I know, but at least it was real footage of someone using a right-handed bolt actio...

Good info, thanks guys!

As we all know, the US Sherman tank was known for its desperately underpowered 75mm gun and poor armour protection, while the German Panther and Tiger had both gun power and armour protection in spades. However, a look at specs show that even the standard Sherman had quite thick frontal armour, and ...