Some time ago I was contacted by Lionel Gonnet who kindly shared a couple of “Then & Now” style photos with us of the 12thSS prototype Wirbelwind photographed in Orbec. Apparently it was photographed on the road to Livarot. I took the liberty of Photoshopping the original wartime photo, taken by Major Sangster onto Lionel’s […]
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We have it on good authority that the Wirbelwind seen on page 96 and inside the back cover is not a prototype but rather a production vehicle manufactured in July 1944, so please to not take the text on page 96 as gospel. Further details to follow …