It's #TankTuesday once more and today's tank is a pristine German PzKw 38(t) in a wood with its crew and others posing for the photo.
Why is this interesting? Because it's not what it seems. Read on…
NB Alt text for each photo has a description plus extra detail.
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Why is this interesting? Because it's not what it seems. Read on…
NB Alt text for each photo has a description plus extra detail.
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Comments
But it's neither.
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With the foliage on the trees, this therefore dates the photo to summer 1943 at the earliest, possibly even 1944.
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Most were turned into training tanks, converted into mobile cranes or Marder III Ausf. H tank hunters, or were mothballed.
So what is one in pristine condition doing in a wood in 1943/44?
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Yet it has additional features from later versions (see the Alt text). It has also been painted in Dunkelgelb. It's also missing its hull MG.
All of the above indicates a factory rebuild.
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The explanation is that this is likely to be an escort tank assigned to an armoured train. For details on this, here's a thread I did recently:
https://bsky.app/profile/rivetsandpins.bsky.social/post/3lgb2fomxlc2a
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I'll post a thread soon with some of my favourite terrible captions.
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