German Tanks & other Armoured Vehicle Photos

[Composite]

Might be worth cross-ref’ing to both the Shows and Museum threads too..... not all of us visit the TR section often......

[toot]

you are right.

[HetzersGonnaHetz]

Good you've bumped this back up Harvey , surely we must have some new Panzer and AFV photos to show !

After sorting out my dodgy scanner that didn't want to work with my PC, I'm now able to share this one of mine, which I think will be a decent bump to this thread.

A Panther on the move in Sedan in 1944, unfortunately only the place and year is listed on the back, so can't be more specific. Had it been a more obscure area, it may have been possible to try and pinpoint a unit, but with Sedan being a main crossing point over the Meuse and into Northern France, I'm not even going to attempt to pinpoint a unit The second word may be the month, but I can't make it out.

[McSeam]

Nice thread! Let me add something.
I have a soldier's photo album and there are two photos to share.



If I'm not mistaken it's Pz.Kpfw.I Ausf.A


and this one is Leichttraktor (Vs.Kfz.31) Krupp. It seems to be a rare beast, because, as Wiki told me, only 4 such tanks were built.

[BlackCat1982]

Here is a Panzer IV from Panzer Regiment 33.
Hit a French Anti-tank mine near Amiens, France. All 5 crew members were Killed. Graves can be seen behind tank

I hope you don’t mind me chipping in to this thread Bill T, but I think I can name the crew based upon my research of the losses.

Ernst Weller
Johann Wede
Constantin Epple
Anton Hümmel
Rudolf Körbler

[Rick W]

Here is a photo from my mother in laws collection
Taken by her 1941 in Latvia.
I saw an earlier photo in this thread of a training tank.
This looks of similar size.
Cheers Rick

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[earlymb]

Renault UE Chenilette, the Germans captured large amounts of them in France in 1940. Looks like it even still has the original French markings.

[lithgow]

The Germans were chronically short of AFVs and made use of pretty much any vehicles they captured-rarely for 1st line use, but widely used for training, internal security use against partisans, conversions to sp guns or as gun tractor/supply carriers-the French vehicles had the added bonus of the Germans having captured large supplies of spares and occupying the factories that made it all.

[Rick W]

Thanks for that info chaps ,
Sort of makes sense to us trying to establish a timeline putting together all her photos in order.
We have lots of photos of french POW's in the same box , some marked Heiligenbeil , which was further south in East Prussia.
It's all of interest and your input much appreciated .
Cheers Rick