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Panzer Tracts No. 21-2: Pantherturm
I und II (Panther Turrets on Steel, Concrete, and Wood Stands)
by Thomas L. Jentz and Hilary
Louis Doyle
Panzer Tracts, http://panzertracts1.tripod.com/,
ISBN 0-9744862-8-0, 48 pages
Here the Panzer Tracts team give us all the facts about the well-known
use of Panther turrets in fixed emplacements. These turn out to be rather
more common than I had suspected, used on most fronts and having three
different types of turret and no fewer than six different designs for
their bases. All of them are described and shown in plans, both new ones
by Mr Doyle and German manual plans that were intended to be used as guides
rather than followed exactly. The text explains all the differences of
turrets and bases, and there are many extracts from German reports as
well. A good collection of wartime photographs shows the turrets and their
bases, and some show the base interiors (which are also in the various
plans). Everything is here for modellers to build their own Pantherturm
emplacements in dioramas!
Recommended.
John Prigent
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