The division emblem a 'Wolfsangel', can be seen right by the drivers' sight and on the rear plank of the vehicle's frame. Towards the end of that month, the company had some days off to get some provisions and recover from battle, and crews wrote the name of their fallen companion on both sides of the turret.

The commander of this vehicle died in combat in March the 14th 1943 while conquering back Jarkov. 2 was a schwere Panzerkompanie which as it was customary and due to the slow manufacturing process of Tiger armored vehicles, had at first ten of these and twelve Panzer IIIs. 3 was a schwere Panzerkompanie (heavy armored vehicle company), and was equipped from the start with nine Tigers and ten Panzer III, but in May 1943 it was reduced to six Tiger and was reorganized as the 9. This Panzer III with white Weiss RAL 9001 camouflage paint, has its division emblem (a skull) right by the drivers' sight. The Heer armored vehicles' divisionary emblems were usually painted yellow, but the Waffen SS vehicles were painted white. The insignia for this unit a lurking tiger, can be seen in the front right by the drivers' sightģ7- Pz. (captured from US forces) could have been used. It makes sense to assume that we're dealing with Grün RAL 6007, but Feldgrau RAL 6006 and even Olive Drab paint The Panzer III arrived to Northern Tunisia painted with Braun RAL 8020 paint, a color tone which was not appropriate for this region with lots of green vegetation, so most vehicles were covered up with green paint, although in some cases only large green spots were painted. In the Stab of this schwerepanzerabteilung we could find the Tiger '01' and '02' and a leichte Zug (light squad) with eight Panzer III's armed with a 75mm gun and numbered '03 to '10'. Some armored vehicles in this unit had the top of the rear wooden box behind the turret painted red in order to be properly identified by fellow German aviators.ģ6- Pz. 8, a 'Z' shaped rune reversed and lying down. On the rear of the turret, on top of the division insignia, we can see the emblem of the Pz.

The formation numerals can be seen in full on both sides of the frame in a smaller size. The 'lonely' numeral in this case is a '6' the numeral identifies the company so this Panzer III belongs to the 2. by the numeral system: The first ones had a single big digit on both sides and on the back of the turret, while the second ones had three digit numerals. could be told apart from those of the 21. At first sight, the armored vehicles of the 15.

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