Stop in for a cup of coffee
The yellow one is a 1939 model, the assigned to the Afrikacorps under Rommel and thru out its life fought in El Alamein and died of electrical issues just outside Tunisa. Rescued from the desert in 1976.
the uparmored one is a late 42 model, fought on the eastern front. Died during the brutal 43/44 winter somewhere near Smollennsk(spelling?) when the rear diff froze up and while trying to break it free, the gears exploded inside the thing.
was brought back to Germany and imported to the US in 1983.
I’ll say this too, the Germans kept records better than anyone in history. Dad was able to go to Berlin and spend a couple days gathering all the original documents for each of them. They tell us who the primary crew assigned was, every deployment, every thing that happened to it right up to its abandonments.
The yellow one is a 1939 model, the assigned to the Afrikacorps under Rommel and thru out its life fought in El Alamein and died of electrical issues just outside Tunisa. Rescued from the desert in 1976.
the uparmored one is a late 42 model, fought on the eastern front. Died during the brutal 43/44 winter somewhere near Smollennsk(spelling?) when the rear diff froze up and while trying to break it free, the gears exploded inside the thing.
was brought back to Germany and imported to the US in 1983.
