A View through the eyes of GI's - Knocked out German Armor

[W Petz]

Knocked Out Panther V in France # 14

[W Petz]

Knocked out Pak 40

[werner geier]

not exactly "armor" and "knocked out", but as this cutie came in today...

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[Stefan De Meyer]

Hello Bill,
I have indeed quite a number of photos of wrecks from the pocket of Mons.
BTW the originals of your latest postings (Panther - Pz.IV - Hummel) are in fact in my collection (small world). If my memory is correct you must have bought those repros at ebay a few years ago. I made those repros on cardboard photo paper.
They are all tanks of the 11th Pz.Div. that went lost during its retreat up north in August 44. Valens - Saint-Vallier etc..
KR
Stefan
PS : please check your mailbox.

Stefan,

Nice pic!! Do you have alot of photos of destroyed vehicles in and around Mons? To my understanding there were many vehicles knocked out or captured in the Mons pocket (Kessel). When I was stationed at SHAPE back in the 1970's I remember reading about a large amount of Vehicles that disappeared from that area. Unfortunately I wasn't into collecting at that time but did manage to pick up some nice daggers and a MP44...which I sold before I left Belgium in 1977.

Here are some nice large pics (12 x 9 1/2) that I rediscoved in a folder Knocked out Panzer IV.

[Stefan De Meyer]

Valence

Another one from that series

[Stefan De Meyer]

Saint-Vallier - 11 Pz.Div.

Close-up of previous posted beast

[W Petz]

Stefan,

Actually I didn't buy them on Ebay. I did a trade with a Frenchman about two or three years ago...He was looking for shot down or captured french aircraft being used by the Luftwaffe. Interesting that they came from your originals. Thanks - Bill

[W Petz]

Stefan,

Did you send something to my PM? I checked nothing is there! - Bill

[Stefan De Meyer]

Yes Bill...

... I sent you an email two days ago and it is marked as being sent in my mailbox.
Please send me a mesage and if possible also your emailaddress so that I could mail (if necessary) directly.
Cheers,
Stefan

Stefan,

Did you send something to my PM? I checked nothing is there! - Bill

[W Petz]

Stefan,

PM and Email address sent. - Bill

[werner geier]

abbie, france ´44

bill, did you get any of my mails lately?

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[W Petz]

Stefan & Werner,

Super Nice pics!!! Thanks for contributiing towards this thread. Stefan I would love to see more of the Mons pocket destroyed vehicles and tanks.

I dug out a few more pics that I would like to post...Here is a Panzerjaeger vehicle knocked out in the area of St. Lo, France.

[W Petz]

next pic is not exactly a knocked out Sdfkz 251 but shows German troops surrendering in Karlsbad, Czech

[W Petz]

Here is a knocked out Pz IV on tank transporter in Afrika...someone set it on fire to get a more dramatic photo.

[werner geier]

captured twice: blown up by it´s crew, this russian 8,5 cm m39 aa-gun in german service is inspected by some fun-loving g.i.´s, belgium 1944