Captured Axis Vehicles

(Tanks. Images)

updatedJune 24, 2007
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Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Misc. vehicles


A Pzkpfw 38(t) from the Separate Tank Battalion Type «В» (commander Major Nebylov). The Soviet Western Front, 20th Army, August 1942. [1]

A Pzkpfw 38(t) from the Separate Tank Battalion. The Soviet Western Front, Summer 1942. [2]

Rem AMVAS: Seems it can be the same vehicle as above.

A Pzkpfw 35R 731 (f) (Renault R35) rearmed with soviet 20 mm ShVAK tank gun. Moscow, MZOK VIM factory, March 1942.

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A Pzkpfw III Ausf J (5 cm KwK L/60) tank of the 52nd Red Banner Tank Brigade. The Trans-Caucasian Front, November 1942. [1]

A separate company equipped with captured tank (a PzKpfw III and three StuG IIIs) at the Soviet Western Front, March 1942. The PzKpfw III has an inscription "Death to Hitler!"[1]

A Pzkpfw III Ausf J (5 cm KwK L/42) tank of the Separate Tank Company equipped with captured vehicles. The Soviet Western Front, spring 1942. [1]

A PzKpfw IV of the Separate Tank Company equipped with captured vehicles on the way to the Stalin repair plant of Taganrog, Sept. 1943
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A Pzkpfw IV Ausf F2 tank of the Separate Tank Company equipped with captured vehicles. The Northern Caucasian Front, 44th Army, Taganrog area, September 1943. [1]

A Pzkpfw IV Ausf F1 tank of the 79th Separate Training Tank Battalion. The Crimean Front, April 1942. This captured vehicle initially belonged to the 22nd Panzer Division. [1]

Another photo see here:

A Pzkpfw IV Ausf F1 tank of the 79th Separate Training Tank Battalion. The Crimean Front, April 1942. [1]

Political officer I Sobchenko is briefing the 107th Separate Tank Battalion personnel on the overall situation. Volkhov Front. July 6, 1942. [1]

Other photos are here:

Pz.Kpfw IV Ausf. F1. The107th Separate Tank Battalion. Volkhov Front. July 6,1942 [4]

Rem. AMVAS: According to the photo above the number onboard is "08" , not "02".

Pz.Kpfw IV Ausf. H Sd Kfz. 161/1 of the 6th Gds. Tank Army. Eastern Front, Moravia, late April 1945 [4]
Pz.Kpfw IV Ausf. H Sd Kfz. 161/2 of unknown unit of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. Bohemia, May 1945 [4]
The captured Panthers organic to the 366th Gds. Heavy SP Arty Regt, 47th Army, vic. Lake Balaton. Hungary, March 1945. German numbers and insignia are overpainted by red stars with white edges. [1]
A Pzkpfw V Ausf G «Panther» tank of the 366th Guards Heavy SP Gun Regiment. The 3rd Ukrainian Front, 47th Army, vic. Lake Balaton, March 1945. [1]
Another reconstruction Pzkpfw V Ausf G «Panther» tank of the 366th Guards Heavy SP Gun Regiment. The 3rd Ukrainian Front, 47th Army, vic. Lake Balaton, March 1945. [4]

The Panther-equipped tank company under command of Gds.Lt. Sotnikov vic Praga (Warsaw's suburb). Poland, Aug. 1944. [1]

Other photos see here

A Pzkpfw V Ausf A «Panther» tank of the tank company under command of Gds. Lt. Sotnikov. The 8th Guard Tank Corps, vic. Praga (Warsaw's suburb), August 1944. [1]

One more reconstruction of "Panther" from the same unit [3]
One more reconstruction of "Panther" from the same unit [5]
Poruchik Boris Cholpanov at the first row of tanks "Panther", Sofia, summer 1945 [6] NEW
Pz. V "Panther" of the 1st Bulgarian Armored Brigade, Sofia, summer 1945 [6] NEW


Literature
  1. M. Kolomiets, I. Moshchanskiy, "Trofei v Krasnoy Armii", Frontovaya Illustratsiya/Frontline Illustration, 1/2000, Ed. 2, Moscow, 2001
  2. "Tanki Vtoroy mirovoy voiny. Soviet Army " (Album) Moscow, Technika-Molodezhi, 2000
  3. M. Svirin. "Pantera. Pz.Kpfw V, Armada No. 5, Moscow, Exprint, 1996
  4. "Pojazdy zdobyczne w armii sowieckiej 1941-1945", Militaria No. 181, Wydawnistwo Militaria, Warszawa, 2003
  5. T. Anderson, Vincent Wai, "Panther", Armor at war series 7006, Concord Publications, Hong Kong, 1996
  6. K. Matev, "Equipment and Armor in the Bulgarian Army. ARMORED VEHICLES 1935 - 1945", Sofia, 2007.

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