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Originally Posted by Hagen
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Originally Posted by cyberia
A steel-wheel Panther paused at the bank of a small river
Information I have not yet been able to cross reference attributes this particular vehicle to Kampfgruppe Peiper during the Ardennes offensive and photographed near the village of La Gleize.
Can anyone confirm or dispel this? |
Great photo! I've never seen this one before. I didn't catch the one standard road wheel at first. Shows one of the problems with only building 24 of something, not any spare parts! |
Great photo Paul! It's rather difficult to say what's right n' not on this one.
But here's my take based on observations n' not hard facts.
It's indeed one of those 24 rare full steel wheel Panther Ausf. G's. But as observed the station six steel wheel have at some point been replaced with a rubber rimmed Ausf. G roadwheel. But that's not all folks 'cos this kitten have been back to the factory at some point n' been retrofitted with a crew compartment heater 'cos none of the 24 all steel'ers where produced without it. The difference on the station four steel wheel from a normal station two/four/six steel wheel is just that the center cap isn't in place. The station two wheel eludes me as it really looks wrong n' looks more like a Tiger I steel wheel than a Panther steel wheel. The idler looks to be the early bigger one.
I'm guessin' that the Panther did belong to LSSAH n' was put out of it's misery near La Glieze. Cammopattern looks to be dark brown n' a little dunkelgelb on a dunkelgrün base with most of the wheels in dunkelgelb.