Greetings Panzerwreckers. Ronald Stassen from Relive History 44-45 recently emailed me a correction regarding the Pz.Kpfw.IV on P56 & 57 of Panzerwrecks 16. Ronald says the photos were taken in Foy, not Recogne, as we wrote. I ran his comment past the guru of Bulge-related things, Timm Haasler, who confirmed this and said, “… that […]
Stefano di Giusto touched base back in July (sorry about the delay in posting) with a couple of updates that might be useful for readers of Panzerwrecks 24. Over to Stefano: p.1: Very nice photo; note that the 3-pointed star used by 15.Pzgrendiv since mid-1944 is painted on the back of the PzIV on the […]
Greetings Panzerwreckers, Tamás Enyedi recently dropped me a line with an exact location for the Panzer IV/70(V) on page 38 of Panzerwrecks 20: Ostfront 3. Tamás says: When I was reading the 20th panzerwrecks edition I found an incorrect city designation. Panzerwrecks 20: page 38. City: Várpalota. Location: 47°12’08.0″N 18°08’52.2″E. Chapel in the background: Zichy […]
Greetings Panzerwreckers. Ronny August touched base back in November (apologies for the delay Ronny) with a location for the Pz.Kpfw.IV on page 43 of Panzerwrecks 21. Over to Ronny: It was not recorded near Herrlisheim, but in Baerendorf/Grand Est, about 80 km away. As a comparison, here are the Google Streetview coordinates: Street View Link […]
How long does it take for new information to be corrected? Exactly one week! From Timm Haasler, one of the authors of Combat History of Sturmpanzer-Abteilung 217: “Last week Lee informed me that the Sturmpanzer book had arrived at his warehouse and that he was able to acquire a new picture of a Sturmpanzer IV […]
Greetings Panzerwreckers With the year about to end, an email from Uli Mössner with a correct to location for the StuG on P21, PW21. Over to Uli: The Sturmgeschütz IV (218) on page 21, Panzerwrecks 21 location is Schorndorf, Baden-Württemberg and not Schorndorf am Ammersee (Bavaria)(in Germany), about 30 km east of Stuttgart. There are […]
Greetings Panzerwreckers It was brought to my attention today that the text at the bottom of page 22 has been cut off by the small table relating to H.St.Art.Bde.249. As much as I may wish to blame everyone else, it is a problem caused by me not triple-checking the multitude of small amendments that went […]
Never one to put his feet up, Darren ‘Forgotten Archives’ Neely has more information and photos of the Pz.Kpfw.IVs shown on pages 72 and 73 of Panzerwrecks 21. Over to Darren: Two Panzer IVs originally identified as 116th KG Bayer from November 1944 are actually from the 2nd company I. /Panzer Regiment 33 of the […]
Often, the search for that missing tidbit of information or morcel throws up unexpected results. A case in point here is the US Army motion picture coverage in Panzerwrecks 6 and an email spat with Bill Auerbach in 2007 and one with Darren Neely in March 2018. Darren had accessed the film showing the Sd.Kfz.251/22, […]
Paul Hocking dropped us a line recently with a correction for the unit insignia on page 42 of Panzerwrecks 22. Over to Paul: “My reason for writing is to offer a correction again some insignia seen on page 42, that is German insignia on a US halftrack. It is captioned as the 7th Flieger Division, but […]
