The 7.5 cm KwK 40 was a German 75 mm Second World War era vehicle-mounted gun, used as the primary armament of the German Panzer IV medium tank and the Sturmgeschütz III and Sturmgeschütz IV assault g
7.5 cm KwK 40 L/48 on a Panzer IV Ausf. H
Gun maintenance on a Sturmgeschütz III.
Ammunition is loaded on a Sturmgeschütz IV in 1944.
The Sturmgeschütz III was an assault gun produced by Germany during World War II. It was the most-produced German fully tracked armoured fighting vehicle, and second-most produced German armored comba
7.5 cm KwK 40
…a German 75 mm Second World War era vehicle-mounted gun, used as the primary armament of the German Panzer IV (F2 model onwards) medium tank and the Sturmgeschütz III (F model onwards) and Sturmgeschütz IV assault guns which were used as tank destroyers. The design of the KwK 40 was adapted from the similar towed…
Sturmgeschütz III Ausführung G (Late) with "Saukopf" (sow's head) mantlet
German forces on a short-barrel StuG III Ausf B cross the Desna river on their march east, 1941.
StuG III Ausf.B in Latvia during the Baltic Operation
A StuG III of the Finnish Army in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, Austria. This model has the concrete armor added postwar by the Finnish Army.