Panzer Tracts No.7-3: Panzerjäger (7.5cm Pak 40/4 to 8.8cm Waffenträger) Panzer Tracts No.7-3: Panzerjäger: Panzer Tracts’ 37-year search for original records (created by those responsible for designing, producing, and using the Panzerjäger) has resulted in them uncovering the facts on their names (and correct nicknames) production, modification, issue, organisation, and frontline employment. Hundreds of research […]
Panzer Tracts No.6-3: Pz.Kpfw. Maus and E-100 For Panzer Tracts No.6-3: Pz.Kpfw. Maus and E-100, Panzer gurus Thomas Jentz and Hilary Doyle look at the development and production of the legendary super-heavy Maus and E-100 tanks. Thanks to the School of Tank Technology, Krupp’s correspondence and meeting notes survived to provide a detailed inside view […]
Panzer Tracts No.5-2 – Panther Ausf.A book For Panzer Tracts No.5-2, the authors spent hundreds of hours accurately measuring surviving Panther Ausf.A’s and hundreds of days drawing at full-scale to create as-built drawings for the first time – accurate to the same tight tolerances demanded of the original assembly firms. Hundreds of research hours went […]
Panzer Tracts No.22-5 – Armoured and Flak Sd.Kfz.7 Panzer Tracts No.22-5 – Armoured and Flak Sd.Kfz.7 features impressive new facts about the history of the armoured 8-ton halftrack built together with the 8.8cm Flak 18 bunker buster “Bunkerknacker”. Until now, the self-propelled guns on half-track “Sfl. auf m.Zgkw. 8t” have simply been identified by weapon: […]
Panzer Tracts No.22-4 – Sd.Kfz.7 Panzer Tracts No.22-4 – Sd.Kfz.7: The Sd.Kfz.7 was one of the most important German military vehicles. Due to their impressive size and the weapons they towed, they capture the imagination of all. Over time they faded into the background, though they were produced in ever-increasing numbers. The Panzer Tracts team […]
Panzer Tracts No.15-4: Final development of m.SPW – Schützenpanzer Sd.Kfz 251 to Vollketten M.S.P Kätzchen The first part of Panzer Tracts No.15-4 covers the ongoing development of the Sd.Kfz 251 with the objective of turning it into a suitable combat vehicle. By November 1941, a specification was issued for a fully tracked M.S.P. (Mittlerer Schützen […]
Nürnberg’s Panzer Factory by Darren Neely & Roddy MacDougall Nürnberg’s Panzer Factory is an illustrated study of the vehicles designed, developed and produced at the M·A·N plant in Nürnberg during the period 1934-1945. Although the production of trucks was, and remains, an essential factor in the company’s success, it was M·A·N’s experience designing armoured fighting […]
From Hilary Doyle in an email dated 30 April 2009: Panzerwrecks 8, Page 82/83 caption – Your tentative identification of a Sd.Kfz.251/2 turns out to be correct – but you are lucky as the missing Panzerschild and mount is definitely not a reliable identifier on its own. I have scanned the picture on page 83 […]
Bertha’s Big Brother: Karl-Gerät (60cm) & (54cm) The late Thomas Jentz looks at the development and employment of the massive German Karl-Gerät super-heavy self-propelled mortars. Wartime photographs taken by the manufacturers, PK units and after eventual capture by the US and Soviet forces show the details of the huge SP guns. The author has collected […]
