#pak 43

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Chars Cromwell du 10e Régiment de chasseurs (10th Mounted Rifles Regiment), unité de reconnaissance blindée de la 1ère Division blindée polonaise passant devant un canon antichar allemand Pak 43 de 88 mm, détruit par la Royal Air Force quelques jours plus tôt, au début de l'Opération Totalize, au sud de Caen - 8 août 1944

Photo : Sergent Wilkes - No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

©Imperial War Museums - B 8833

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Panzerjäger Tiger(P) “Ferdinand” - schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 654. Kursk, Russia, in July 1943. The “Ferdinand” number 501 was immobilized by a mine, captured by the Russian army was repaired and sent to landfill NIBT in Kubinka outside Moscow, where it is stored in the museum until now.

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Panzerjäger “Elefant” n°112 of schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 653 in Italy. During the transfer from Anzio area towards Orvieto, along the highway 71, near the small town of Ficulle the “Elefant” No. 112 had mechanical failures and lack of spare parts and impossible to tow it was decided to blow it up for not doing so capture by the enemy. Umbria, Italy, 10 June 1944.

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Some Panzer VI Ausf.B “Königstiger” (Tiger II) of Schwere Panzerabteilung 506 hidden in a nearby forest in Aachen in the first days of October of 1944, ready to defend the city. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.