Post your exciting SFL tank pic

[Laurens Q-fin]

No credits are given on the page with the photo. However, on page 2, the author writes acknowledgements to:

* Frau Caspsers, Frau Geilen and Frau Kuhl from the Bundarchiv
* Rare photos were provided by Enrico Bethge, Henry Hoppe Thomas Laber and Klaus Lüning
* John Rue in regards to translation
* Staff of Parula Museum - Finland (but that's for pictures from halftracks and have nothing to do with the Elephant)

I only know one person and that's Enrico Bethge because he's always selling photos on eBay-Germany.

Thanks for the warning on copyrights, I will adjust my post so nobody gets offended. I was too enthusiastic

Hello Laurens,

No he didn't get the photo from me but I got it from a very good friend who has published several books on Elephants. Does it give photo credit to anyone in particular? I never seen and don't possess that book. Thanks for your comments and joining in on this thread. Bill

[Mogdala]

Christian,

I believe you have the same Elephant (Ferdinand) that I have but photo was taken from a different angle from the front. Great pic is this in your collection??? - Bill

Every photo i´m posting is in my collection!!! Do you know were your photos were taken?

[tobau]

Great shot's again .Christian , how long collect you photos ?

Regards.

[W Petz]

Christian,

Great!!! If you mean by location the other pics with crew were taken in the Saporoshye Bridgehead and belonged to the 2nd Company of S. Panzerjaeger Abt. 653. The one pic that we share also belonged to the 2nd Company in the Orel and had a tactical #234 and the Pampas (unit crest) is located to the right of the cannon. - Bill

[Mogdala]

Christian,

Great!!! If you mean by location the other pics with crew were taken in the Saporoshye Bridgehead and belonged to the 2nd Company of S. Panzerjaeger Abt. 653. The one pic that we share also belonged to the 2nd Company in the Orel and had a tactical #234 and the Pampas (unit crest) is located to the right of the cannon. - Bill

Thank you for the information Bill

I´m collecting photos since 1999/2000. So i didn´t have got so much luck like Bill to get the photos for a cheap price, i always have to buy most of my photos for a lot of money. Sometimes i´ve got luck too, finding some cheap one´s.

Here another MARDER

[W Petz]

Christian,

You have done extremely well and my compliments on your excellent collection. My best sources for finding photos were at the flea markets in Germany. where you can still find them at a reasonable price (excluding us Americans now a days...since the dreaded EURO!!) but once they make it to Ebay then that's when they really get expensive!!! Bill

[Mogdala]

Christian,

You have done extremely well and my compliments on your excellent collection. Bill

I thank you very much for your compliments, but you´ve got also a wonderfull collection with so many nice photos and i enjoy seeing yours in every kind of tread. And also Akira has got an outstanding collection like you too!

But there are also other collectors with a lot of nice and unpublished photos outside and i thank everybody sharing them them with us

[W Petz]

Christian,

You are absolutely right that many others have great photos that they are sharing and I always point that out whenever I can. Thank you all for sharing your pics! Happy New Year!! - Bill

[W Petz]

Here is a nice closeup of a SFL. - Bill

[Mogdala]

Very nice! 2 Panzerjäger 1

[Mogdala]

Another one....

[Akira Takiguchi]

It appears that various types of Marder III and also Panzerjäger I seem to be most often encountered.

Here are two more Marder III's. One probably from P.561 (Rudolf Bittner's), the other is again from "leider mir unbekannte" unit.

[Mogdala]

I´ll take them, Akira!

The first photo is very detailed!

[Akira Takiguchi]

Leutnant Hugo Vogt was the platoon leader of Jägerzug, Stabskompanie, schw.Panzerjäger-Abteilung 519 in April 1944. He would go missing in action on June 25th during the collapse of Heeresgruppe Mitte.

[Akira Takiguchi]

We cannot forget this monster, 12,8cm Pak auf VK 30.01(H), which was assigned to Panzerjäger-Abteilung 521... Unfortunately this is the only photo I have (so some of you may have seen it on my web site). Recently an album from P.521 was split, how I wish I had money to keep them together... Anyway I was too late.

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