Captured Axis Vehicles

(Tanks. Photos)

updatedJune 24, 2007
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Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Misc. vehicles


upPz 38(t)

 

A train load of repaired "Prague" (Pz.38(t))tanks on its way to the line units. Soviet Western Front, July 1942. [1]

 

upPz III

 

Red Army troops going in combat in captured PzKpfw III and PzKpfw IV tanks. Soviet Western Front, Sept. 1941. [1]
Red Army troops going in combat on the captured PzKpfw III. Soviet Western Front, Sept. 1941. [1]
A captured PzKpfw III under command of Milrofanov on the way into combat. Soviet Western Front, 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]
N. Baryshev's tank crew. The 107th Separate Tank Battalion, July 6. 1942 [1]

Commanders of the 107th Separate Tank Battalion specifies new combat mission. Volkhov Front. July 6, 1942. [1,2]

      
Political officer I. Sobchenko is briefing the 107th Separate Tank Battalion personnel on the overall situation. Volkhov Front. July 6, 1942. [1]
The same Pz. III No. 03 (see photos above) moving by road [?]
A Pzkpfw III Ausf J being repaired in the 151st Tank Brigade. The Northern Caucasian Front, March 1943. [1]
PzKpfw III tank. The 107th Separate Tank Battalion. Volkhov Front, April 1942. [1]

 

upPz IV

 

Red Army troops going in combat on the Kpfw IV tank. One can see insignia of the Wehrmacht's 18th Panzer Division and regimental insignia of the 18th Panzer Regt., painted on the turret of the PzKpfw IV. Soviet Western Front, Sept. 1941. [1]

Scout V.Kondratenko, former tractor driver, got behind the enemy lines and hijacked fully operational enemy tank to the friendly positions. North-Caucasian Front, Nov. 1943. [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 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]
A Pzkpfw IV Ausf F1 of the 151st Tank Brigade in Krasnodar. The Northern Caucasian Front, February 1943. [1]
Pzkpfw IV Ausf F1 of the 151st Tank Brigade moving to the frontline. The Northern Caucasus, February 1943. The side of the tank carries insignia of the 13th Panzer Division.
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Pzkpfw IV AusfF1 of the151st Tank Brigade after repair. The Northern Caucasian Front, March 1943. The side of the tank carries insignia of the 13rd Panzer Division and red stars. [1]

 

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

Pz IV from the 3rd Ukrainian Front coming to cover the loses during the fights in Drava river area, March, 14'1945 NEW

Rem. AMVAS: probably belongs to one of the units of the 1st Bulgarian Army


Literature
  1. M. Kolomiets, I. Moshchanskiy, "Trofei v Krasnoy Armii", Frontovaya Illustratsiya/Frontline Illustration, 1/2000, Ed. 2, Moscow, 2001
  2. Tankomaster, 4/1999, Moscow
  3. K. Matev, "Equipment and Armor in the Bulgarian Army. ARMORED VEHICLES 1935 - 1945", Sofia, 2007.
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