Hats off to Janez Čokl for correcting the location of the Jagdpanzer 38 on page 60 of Panzerwrecks 19: Yugoslavia. Over to Janez: I saw one location mistake in Panzerwrecks 19 (nice work). Photo of Hetzer on page 60 was taken in Celje, not in Maribor. (Google street view link) Probably was the same vehicle as those on […]
Finally I found some more info on the Ausfallflagge (repair flag). This description has been found in the manual D76 “Panzerangriff im Rahmen einer Infanteriedivision vom 23 Juni 1936.” When the flag was hung (ruhig gehalten) it meant ‘Breakdown,” when it was waved (geschwenkt), it meant “Help Required!” Type of flag a) hung […]
A reader asked for a caption for the cover shot. Roddy MacDougall obliges: The front cover shows Panther 101 which was originally the mount of Ostuf. Kremser the officer commanding 1./SS-Pz.Rgt.1 beside the Maison Communale in La Gleize looking South East. The vehicle behind Panther 101 is the Befehlspanther 002 that can also be seen […]
Stefano Di Giusto contacted me recently with a nugget of extra information concerning Repairing the Panzers Vol.2. Over to you Stefano: I have bought “Repairing the Panzers 2”, very fine book as usual. I just want to inform you that the unit of the tanks pictured on page 28 and 147-149 is Pz.Rgt. 201 (later […]
Conscientious authors that they are, the Duel in the Mist team have been finding a few things that needed correction. Over to them: No Hellcats P.8 This reserve was the result of the recent conversion to the mobile M-10 Wolverine tank destroyer. The 2nd Platoon, already equipped with four M-10 TD’s, had originally been with […]
Forget “Bulge,” “Patton,” and words like “Nuts!” and remember “Duel in the Mist 2.’ It is an important telling of important events and will not disappoint. That’s “Duel in the Mist 2,” the second volume in the saga of the Leibstandarte and Kampfgruppe Peiper in the Ardennes Offensive. If pitched by Hollywood agents, they would […]
Dear interested readers of RtP1 First, we need to apologize to Kevin Fish whom we forgot to put in the acknowledgements on page 6 even though he was among the generous donors of photos (see the photos on pages 121-123 marked correctly KF). He is an author himself (Panzer Regiment 8: In World War II […]
We are pleased to announce our first hardcover book, “Repairing the Panzers,” by Lukas Friedli. And what a book it is! All told, it is a massive 256 pages, with close to 300 photos depicting all aspects of maintenance, repair and recovery of German AFVs in exquisite detail. The majority of photos are unpublished, and […]
