Afternoon StuG fans I have joined the build with a captured Stug !!!
First a brief explanation about captured Stugs, it is thought by many that the Russians used captured Stugs and pressed them into service, but is wholly inaccurate.
This according to research , Stugs were captured true, photos showing Russian crews posed with them true.
Red Armymen posing on a captured StuG III from StuG. Abt. 197, August 1941.
That same vehicle at the NIIBT Proving Grounds, early September of 1941. The damage to the suspension and the letter E on the side can be clearly seen.
On August 15th, the battalion was located at the city of Kanev, where fierce battles for the Dnieper were fought. Soviet infantry counterattacks managed to capture at least two StuG III Ausf. B from StuG. Abt. 197. The vehicles from 3rd battery was captured intact and was used in a photoshoot with the soldiers who captured it. The second vehicle, #90247 with the name Prinz Eugen, was also mobile. According to StuG. Abt. 197 records, both vehicles were lost after hitting mines. After brief repairs, they were transferred to the Soviet rear.
The assertion that at least one of the vehicles went to fight with a Soviet crew is often made, but this is not true. In early September, the vehicles from 3rd battery was already at the NIIBT Proving Grounds. As for Prinz Eugen, it was transferred to the rear of the Central Front. A brief description was composed, with the trophy getting the name "medium German tank T-3 with an immobile turret". The description included external and internal characteristics of the vehicle. These characteristics were fairly close to the real ones. Despite the urgency, the specialists who studied the vehicle had time to partially take it apart and put it back together.
The second captured StuG III Ausf. B from StuG. Abt. 197.
That same vehicle from the left. This StuG had the personal name "Prinz Eugen".
This will be my entry, going to have some Fruils tracks, some Russian officers standing around looking at it with a couple of Russian crew.
With kind permission from Peter @ http://tankarchives.blogspot.com/2016/04/stug-in-ussr.html to whom I am grateful.
This had been hard to find , in the end it actually came from a Russian seller.
I've started the hull, wheels are on, one minor problem is the track adjuster, I've had this problem before . but can't see the diagram very clearly.
Think it should be like this.
Sorry its upside down , !
John.
First a brief explanation about captured Stugs, it is thought by many that the Russians used captured Stugs and pressed them into service, but is wholly inaccurate.
This according to research , Stugs were captured true, photos showing Russian crews posed with them true.
Red Armymen posing on a captured StuG III from StuG. Abt. 197, August 1941.
That same vehicle at the NIIBT Proving Grounds, early September of 1941. The damage to the suspension and the letter E on the side can be clearly seen.
On August 15th, the battalion was located at the city of Kanev, where fierce battles for the Dnieper were fought. Soviet infantry counterattacks managed to capture at least two StuG III Ausf. B from StuG. Abt. 197. The vehicles from 3rd battery was captured intact and was used in a photoshoot with the soldiers who captured it. The second vehicle, #90247 with the name Prinz Eugen, was also mobile. According to StuG. Abt. 197 records, both vehicles were lost after hitting mines. After brief repairs, they were transferred to the Soviet rear.
The assertion that at least one of the vehicles went to fight with a Soviet crew is often made, but this is not true. In early September, the vehicles from 3rd battery was already at the NIIBT Proving Grounds. As for Prinz Eugen, it was transferred to the rear of the Central Front. A brief description was composed, with the trophy getting the name "medium German tank T-3 with an immobile turret". The description included external and internal characteristics of the vehicle. These characteristics were fairly close to the real ones. Despite the urgency, the specialists who studied the vehicle had time to partially take it apart and put it back together.
The second captured StuG III Ausf. B from StuG. Abt. 197.
That same vehicle from the left. This StuG had the personal name "Prinz Eugen".
This will be my entry, going to have some Fruils tracks, some Russian officers standing around looking at it with a couple of Russian crew.
With kind permission from Peter @ http://tankarchives.blogspot.com/2016/04/stug-in-ussr.html to whom I am grateful.
This had been hard to find , in the end it actually came from a Russian seller.
I've started the hull, wheels are on, one minor problem is the track adjuster, I've had this problem before . but can't see the diagram very clearly.
Think it should be like this.
Sorry its upside down , !
John.
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still have to finish the cycling German ,just a mere few brush strokes to the figure, and tie down his kit . At least it doesn't have too many wheels !
