Panzer III with Eight Road Wheel in Poland

Group of tanks in a meadow. Panzer III Ausf. D with crew, tank soldier in the turret. The picture was taken in September 1939 during the German invasion of Poland. The photographer is Kriegsberichter Rascheit from KBK Lw 1 (Kriegsberichter-Kompanie Luftwaffe 1).

Starting the Second World War since the invasion of Poland, Germany had only about a hundred Panzer III tanks, so in the Polish campaign and the battles with the French and British armies in the west, this tank was not so noticeable among the mass of more outdated tanks with which at that time it was armed tank forces Germany. But by the beginning of the eastern campaign of the Wehrmacht, the Pz.III had already become the main tank of the German army. On the Soviet borders on June 22, 1941, there were 965 Panzer III tanks.

 

Source :
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-318-0083-30 and Bild 101I-318-0083-32
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