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  2. Tank Overhaul - Wikipedia

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    The Elephant is possibly the rarest surviving tank from World War 2. Only 90 were ever built and now only two are thought to exist. At the US Army Ordnance Museum, you will see a crack team restore a rusted beat up machine that has been left on the sidelines since 1944. "The M-24 Chaffee" March 26, 2009: 3 Featuring restoration of an M-24 ...

  3. The Wheatcroft Collection - Wikipedia

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    The Wheatcroft Collection is perhaps notable for having a number of extremely valuable and rare Second World War-era German military vehicles, including four Panther tanks, [9] one of which is close to full restoration, a StuG III assault gun, a Panzer III, and a Panzer IV tank and various components from many other vehicles.

  4. Jon Phillips Armor Collection - Wikipedia

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    This tank was recovered from the Pirbright fire range in UK, and was then part of Kevin Wheatcroft collection. [4] The project was started on 1 May 2013 and was completed 1 July 2016. [5] The engine and transmission are not original, but were sourced through a surplus FV432 armoured personnel carrier. Social media. The StuG III Ausf.

  5. Panzer III - Wikipedia

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    However, when it initially met the KV-1 heavy tanks and T-34 medium tanks it proved to be inferior in both armour and gun power. To meet the growing need to counter these tanks, the Panzer III was up-gunned to the 5 cm KwK 39 , a longer, more powerful 50-millimetre (1.97 in) gun, and received more armour but still was at disadvantage compared ...

  6. Panzer IV - Wikipedia

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    Most of the tanks Romania had received were lost during combat between 1944 and 1945. These tanks, designated T4 in the army's inventory, were used by the Army's 2nd Armoured Regiment. On 9 May 1945, only two Panzer IVs were left. Romania received another 50 captured Panzer IV tanks from the Red Army after the end of the war.

  7. Panther tank - Wikipedia

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    The Panther tank, officially Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (abbreviated Pz.Kpfw. V) with ordnance inventory designation: Sd.Kfz. 171, is a German medium tank of World War II.It was used in most European theatres of World War II from mid-1943 to the end of the war in May 1945.

  8. Tanks in the German Army - Wikipedia

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    Leopard 2A5s of the German Army (Heer). This article deals with the tanks (German: Panzer) serving in the German Army (Deutsches Heer) throughout history, such as the World War I tanks of the Imperial German Army, the interwar and World War II tanks of the Nazi German Wehrmacht, the Cold War tanks of the West German and East German Armies, all the way to the present day tanks of the Bundeswehr.

  9. Wirbelwind - Wikipedia

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    The Flakpanzer IV "Wirbelwind" (Whirlwind in English) was a German self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on the Panzer IV tank. It was developed in 1944 as a successor to the earlier Möbelwagen self-propelled anti-aircraft gun.