Panther Recovery

 

Panther Ausf. D being hooked up to a German tank recovery vehicle, Soviet Union, 1943-44. They're changing the engine and need to move around to the front for the transmission. Either job is a lot of hassle. Tank engines from this era pretty much universally had very short lives, with most tanks only having an engine lifespan of a few hundred hours before needing to be replaced. The worst offender was the early T-34/76s, which only had a lifespan of about 100 hours! The tank itself is from 23. Panzer-Division attached to Kampfgruppe Bäke, and was taken at the end of the Korsun-Cherkassy battles, probably late February/early March 1944. Photograph is credited to Wolff & Tritschler

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