Check this out. Civil crane on Panther chassis.
Wonder if it still exists.
Wonder if it still exists.
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Was this sort of thing a common occurrence?
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This picture was in a book I used to have......really annoyed as I seem to have lost it
All about Normandy if I remember correctlyComment
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Yeah I guess it was in Normandy.Originally posted by philip turland View Post
The French Army used 1 or 2 battalions equiped with Panther until the 50ies.
I don't know if it was common to use the chassis for civilian use. A lot of them ended as hard target on tank firing ranges.Comment
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Hi,
Only a (very) few dozen of Panzer (Pz IV, Panther, Tiger 1 and Tiger 2) were still in working condition at the end of the war and in the late 40's in France.
Most were used for testing and the creation of new french prototypes.
The 503e RCC and the 6e Cuirassiers (battalion-sized units) had infact only a few Panther, probably one or two sections (heavy sections).
A F.F.I. kind of "Kampfgruppe" ("Bataillon Besnier")was used against the Germans of the St Nazaire Pouch (1944-1945) with various captured german Panzer.
The Panther used by the ACM is maybe one wreck that was purchased by the Weathcroft collection ?
Similar german armoured vehicles were used for earthwork vehicles.
The best examples are the famous SWS of the late Guy Arendt of the R.I.P. Victory Museum.
Article in two parts courtesy of "39-45 Magazine" issues #78 & 79.
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I have a pic somewhere of a Pz III chassis-armoured superstructure-pulling railcars around in a yard.
I think it is in France and they mentioned the lack of functioning train engines at the time.
Latewar or early postwar period.MLPComment
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