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Track surfing in Moravia. A civilian catches a lift in Tišnov, N-W of Brno in eastern Czechoslovakia, circa May 1945
The surfing civilian and Panther were found on a Youtube video, entitled ‘Tišnovský kinematograf: květen 1945’. The main image is made from a series of stills stitched together in Photoshop. It shows an early 1945 M.N.H. assembled Panther Ausf. G, characterised by the distinctive diagonally striped factory camo, Balkenkreuz application, exhaust hoods and foliage tie downs welded to the turret sides. Its tactical number confirmed by Marek Solar as “314” is in a hand written style similar to “174” (shown inset), which was ID’ed by Neill Warren as belonging to I./Pz.Rgt.24 and pinpointed in Austria by Oliver van Hettinga. In March I./24 was with 6.Pz.Div. fighting in Hungary and in the retreat into Austria. Kamen Nevenkin's trusty book Fire Brigades states on 28 April I./24 was ordered to begin transferring to Milowitz, N-E of Prague, but whether or not some elements managed to isn't confirmed. This could explain “314” being found en-route in Moravian territory, although perhaps it was still tactically attached, or absorbed into 6. Pz.Div., which retreated through Moravia.
www.network54.com/Forum/47207/thread/1434589243/For+Vikto...
Panther "314" and other German MV's can be seen from the 18:10 mark:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA2TpyuSEos
The film also includes a sequence of a StuG III being towed away by a Stalinets tractor. It's actually not the Panthers tracks which the civilian is filmed hitching a ride on, but a set of Pz.III-IV tracks. Stills of this StuG appeared in Canfora's interesting AFV Photo Album 2 on p.114, albeit overlooking the novelty of the surfing civilian for some reason (a book which btw includes precise insights on p.141 bearing a remarkable similarity to some other painstaking Czech Panther detective work, also published originally in this stream:
www.flickr.com/photos/82596826@N03/16255965297/in/album-7...)
Track surfing in Moravia. A civilian catches a lift in Tišnov, N-W of Brno in eastern Czechoslovakia, circa May 1945
The surfing civilian and Panther were found on a Youtube video, entitled ‘Tišnovský kinematograf: květen 1945’. The main image is made from a series of stills stitched together in Photoshop. It shows an early 1945 M.N.H. assembled Panther Ausf. G, characterised by the distinctive diagonally striped factory camo, Balkenkreuz application, exhaust hoods and foliage tie downs welded to the turret sides. Its tactical number confirmed by Marek Solar as “314” is in a hand written style similar to “174” (shown inset), which was ID’ed by Neill Warren as belonging to I./Pz.Rgt.24 and pinpointed in Austria by Oliver van Hettinga. In March I./24 was with 6.Pz.Div. fighting in Hungary and in the retreat into Austria. Kamen Nevenkin's trusty book Fire Brigades states on 28 April I./24 was ordered to begin transferring to Milowitz, N-E of Prague, but whether or not some elements managed to isn't confirmed. This could explain “314” being found en-route in Moravian territory, although perhaps it was still tactically attached, or absorbed into 6. Pz.Div., which retreated through Moravia.
www.network54.com/Forum/47207/thread/1434589243/For+Vikto...
Panther "314" and other German MV's can be seen from the 18:10 mark:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA2TpyuSEos
The film also includes a sequence of a StuG III being towed away by a Stalinets tractor. It's actually not the Panthers tracks which the civilian is filmed hitching a ride on, but a set of Pz.III-IV tracks. Stills of this StuG appeared in Canfora's interesting AFV Photo Album 2 on p.114, albeit overlooking the novelty of the surfing civilian for some reason (a book which btw includes precise insights on p.141 bearing a remarkable similarity to some other painstaking Czech Panther detective work, also published originally in this stream:
www.flickr.com/photos/82596826@N03/16255965297/in/album-7...)