Captured Axis Vehicles

(SP Guns. Images)

updatedJune 24, 2007
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Tanks

Self-propelled guns

Misc. vehicles


A StuG III Ausf D SP gun of the Separate Tank Company equipped with captured vehicles. The Soviet Western Front, spring 1942. This captured StuG III operated by the 177th Assault Gun Battalion (Sturmgeschutz Abteilung 177). [1]
A separate company equipped with captured AFVs (a PzKpfw III and three StuG IIIs) at the Soviet Western Front, March 1942. SP guns carries the following slogans: "We'll avenge our Ukraine!" (Otomstim za Ukrainu), "Avenger" ("Mstitel'"), "Hit Goebbels!" (Bej, Gebbel'sa) [1]
A Sturmgeschutz IV (7,5 cm StuK40 L/48) SP gun from the 1506th SP Gun Regiment (commander Lt. Colonel Rogatchev. The 3nd Ukrainian Front, vic. Lake Balaton, March 1945.
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Sturmgeschutz IV (7,5 cm StuK40 L/48) SP gun from the 1506th SP Gun Regiment. The 3rd Ukrainian Front, vic. Lake Balaton, March 1945. [1]

Sturmgeschutz StuG40 Ausf. G "Alexandr Suvorov" organic to the 1228th Gds. SP Gun Regiment, Ukraine, Winter 1944 [2]
StuG 40 Sd Kfz. 142/1 Ausf G from the unidentified unit, Nohemia, April 26, 1945 [3]
Hummel SP guns operated by the Separate SP gun battalion of the 27th Army, vic. Lake Balaton. Hungary, March 1945. White-rimmed red stars are painted on its sides. [1]

А 150 mm SP gun «Hummel» of the Separate SP Gun Battalion. The 3rd Ukrainian Front, 27th Army, vic. Lake Balaton, March 1945. [1]

А 150 mm SP gun «Hummel» of the Separate SP Gun Battalion. The 3rd Ukrainian Front, 27th Army, vic. Lake Balaton, March 1945. [2]

 

Rem. AMVAS: It's interesting to note that two books gives two different color schemes for the same vehicle.

Jagdpanzer IV given by the 3rd Ukrainian Front to the Assault-gun Battalion/1st Bulgarian Army, Hungary, March 14, 1945 [5]NEW

 

Rem. AMVAS: I guess it may be the same vechicle reconstructed below.

Jagdpanzer IV Sd Kfz. 162 Ausf. F of the 18th Tank Corps. 3rd Ukrainian Front, Hungary, early March, 1945 [3]

 

Rem. AMVAS: More believable belongs to the 1st Bulgarian Army

Seems reconstruction of the same vehicle [4]
Jagdpanzer IV/70 of the 18th Tank Corps. 3rd Ukrainian Front, Hungary, early March, 1945 [3]
Jagdpanzer IV/70 of assault-gun unit of the 1st Bulgarian Army, Hungary, April-May 1945 [5] NEW
Assault gun "Praga" from the Assault Gun Battalion/1st Bulgarian Army. Pech, Hungary, March 1945 [3] NEW
Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer" SP gun of assualt-gun unit of the 1st Bulgarian Army, Hungary, March 1945 [5] NEW

Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer" SP gun of the 181st Tank Brigade, 3rd Ukrainian Front, Hungary, January 1945 [3]

Rem. AMVAS: Possibly [3] is mistaken and this vehicle belongs to some Bulgarian unit, or it was transferred there later. Vehicle from the photo above carries very similar signs.



Literature
  1. M. Kolomiets, I. Moshchanskiy, "Trofei v Krasnoy Armii", Frontovaya Illustratsiya/Frontline Illustration, 1/2000, Ed. 2, Moscow, 2001
  2. "Tanki Vtoroy mirovoy voiny. Soviet Army " (Album) Moscow, Technika-Molodezhi, 2000
  3. "Pojazdy zdobyczne w armii sowieckiej 1941-1945", Militaria No. 181, Wydawnistwo Militaria, Warszawa, 2003
  4. "Jagdpanzer IV ", Militaria No. 150, Wydawnistwo Militaria, Warszawa, 2003
  5. K. Matev, "Equipment and Armor in the Bulgarian Army. ARMORED VEHICLES 1935 - 1945", Sofia, 2007.

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