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| Subject: | Re: late war stugs |  |
| Date: | Jun 28, 2001 |
| From: | Michael Kalbfleisch | |
I have found two pic's of early short barrelled Stug's late in the war. The first is
in the "Sturm&Drang" series on the Stug, on pp. 54 there is a Stug B in what looks
like the yellow paint sceme. The capation is in Japanese but the date is 1945. The
second pic is in the old "Tanks Illustraded" series "Last of the Panzers" it's on pp.
62 showing a Stug D in a vehicle dump after the war with late model Stugs and Panzer
III N's.
vze28yny@mail.verizon.net wrote:
> To quote from Von Manstein 8 June, 1936:
>
> "The Sturmartillierie is a support weapon for the normal infantry divisions...In
> addition, they will be the preferred offensive anti-tank weapon..."
>
> Also note that the original designation was s.Pak, which indicates that an
> anti-tank role was envisioned for the type from its inception. The long guns were
> simply an improvement on a tried and true weapons system and a reenforcement of
> the original doctrine, not some mid-war change.
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> The most probable reasons that short 7.5cm guns were not photographed later in the
> war was that they would have been quite rare at the time. This is not to say they
> were non-existant, however. And as the mentioned photo of the long gun on an early
> chassis would indicate, surviving chassis would have been re-fitted with the new
> gun when available.
>
> Frank |
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