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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Top of the morning/afternoon to you Panzerwreckers. Florian Bürger emailed me last week regarding the location of the Sturmgeschütz IV on page 21 of Panzerwrecks. Over to you Florian: Thank you very much for the excellent #21! As always a pleasure reading the book. But the text on page 21 about the location of the […]
Hola Panzerwreckers. We’ve said before that creating these books would be impossible without the assistance of experts in their field. Sometimes even experts get caught in the Panzerwrecks spam filter, not to be found until the book has been published. A case in point is an email from Jonathan Holt at the Tank Museum Archive […]
Olivier Lefebvre touched base today with a location for ‘Charfours’ on page 16 of Panzerwrecks 21. Over to you Olivier: The location is not Charfours but Chaufour in the Yvelines (near Vernon), which I happened to pass through a few times since I live nearby. Thanks to Google Streetview I managed to get views from […]
Javier Tomé contacted me this week regarding the Jagdtigers in Panzerwrecks 21: I am very fond of Panzerwrecks books although this time I disagree with the Jagdtiger captions: The Strengberg Jagdtiger was captured on 8 May 1945. The date welded on the front armor is 5 May, but local history and 65th ID reports say […]
