Greetings Panzerwreckers. The following passage comes from a report by Major AG Sangster, whose photos have appeared in a number of Panzerwrecks. His report covers a few days in August 1944, when he brought a Bergepanther back to the UK from Normandy. 97-2-2/CACMain HQ First Cdn Army14 Aug 44 Report on trip to the UK […]
Patrice Debucquoy got in touch to share some information about how the load-bed of the UE carrier was operated, and how this could have been incorporated into the design for the Wurfrähmen equipment: “Page 51 you show a Renault UE mit Wurfrähmen and you say you don’t see how to elevate the rockets ; well, it’s an easy […]
The location of the Flakpanzer 38 on pages 34 and 35 of Panzerwrecks 17 is Rue Saint-Pierre et Miquelon in Tessy-sur-Vire. These are from Google Maps:
Some time ago I was contacted by Lionel Gonnet who kindly shared a couple of “Then & Now” style photos with us of the 12thSS prototype Wirbelwind photographed in Orbec. Apparently it was photographed on the road to Livarot. I took the liberty of Photoshopping the original wartime photo, taken by Major Sangster onto Lionel’s […]
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 […]
