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Originally Posted by zastava128
That topic you linked is amazing but yeah 403 pages...
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I already had over 500 new photos in SPWW2.......then I found that resource..... ( ! )
The selection of photos I have never seen before is fantastic ( and I have been taking advantage of it...) and it's not just German stuff although that makes up a lot of it
take a look at this for example
http://www.histomil.com/viewtopic.ph...918&start=3700
scroll down to the sixth photo down...............
"Soldiers of the Carpathian Lancers Regiment (2nd 'Warsaw' Armoured Brigade, 2nd Polish Corps) posing by a destroyed German Panther Ausf G tank."
look at what's on the roof of the panther. Look close it's actually two plates of spaced armour. That's the first time I have seen that and it appears to be a limited modification
Don
Here's another shot of the same tank ( before it had been looted a bit ) that shows the two plates better. This may have been a field mod but if so it was a sophisticated one
Futher digging reveals that in a book titled "Panzer Wreaks" there are "13 pictures of Panthers from 1./Pz.Rgt. 26. Two of these modified vehicles, numbers 424 and 434, have been knocked out in the night of the 15/16 April 1945 near Sesto Imolese, Italy."
So my best guess is this is a Field mod confined to this one unit but still......... never seen this before
FURTHER EDIT
Now I'm tripping over photos of this tank. Here's another one take from a different angle at a different time
