7.5 cm KwK 40
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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 guns which were used as tank destroyers.
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.
Sturmgeschütz III
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The Sturmgeschütz III was an assault gun produced by Germany during World War II. It was the most-produced fully tracked armoured fighting vehicle, and second-most produced German armored combat vehicle of any type after the Sd.Kfz. 251 half-track. It was built on a slightly modified Panzer III chassis, replacing the turret with an armored, fixed superstructure mounting a more powerful gun. Initially intended as a mobile assault gun for direct-fire support for infantry, the StuG III was continually modified, and much like the later Jagdpanzer vehicles, was employed as a tank destroyer.
Sturmgeschütz III Ausführung G
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.