Ripley, I apologize for not being clear about your hatch question in my earlier post, yes, the tank had no loader hatch, it was a remanufactured early turret. I wish I could find the thread again there were tons of images collected there of the tank. The image shoes him covered with a blanket and the tank in the background the turret had started turning in his direction but didn’t make it all the way around so presumably someones else shot the panzerfaust wielding german but not soon enough. I presume he may have destroyed the tank at the cost of his life. Once I found a german modeling forum that had a big thread on it, including a snapshot of a dead german soldier some 30-40 yards off to the right of the tank. I had it backed up on a memory stick but I think that’s gone missing Unfortunately, my PC crashed years ago and I lost the file I had on the tank with all it’s information and all the images I had collected a lot of images of it. The cages for the sand bag armor had similar construction as other tanks from the 756TB.Ī wrecked version would be very challenging for me without help from AM stuff. Interestingly tho the hull add on armor was not kit issue, it looks like it was a “homemade” custom job. It still had the African mods but the early low bustle it came with had been refurbished with the late shield and mantlet, cheek armor, and the late cupola. The tank had some fascinating features too.
In the pictures as time passed, the vehicle degraded as it was moved around, probably with bulldozers and also maybe even scavengers took things off of it? I think nowadays as a modeling subject it fascinates people to think a survivor from north africa could've made it all the way to germany. It was a curiosity to the GIs in that area so many people took pictures on it and around it. Apparently the tank lay wrecked there for a long time and was moved around a couple times to accommodate a victory parade event.
Ripley, there are tons of photos of this vehicle online.
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