Panzer IV
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The Panzerkampfwagen IV, commonly known as the Panzer IV, is a German medium tank developed in the late 1930s and used extensively during the Second World War. Its ordnance inventory designation was S
A Panzer IV Ausf. G "413" in desert colours, bearing the palm tree insignia of the Afrika Korps, «Friederike» inscribed in Fraktur script on the gun barrel near the mantlet
12th SS "Hitlerjugend" division in France
Panzer IV Ausf. A in 1940
Panzer IV Ausf. C, 1943
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 g
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…the recoil length was too great for the tank's turret, the recoil mechanism and chamber were shortened. This resulted in the 75-millimetre (2.95 in) KwK 40 L/43. When the new KwK 40 was loaded with the Pzgr. 39 armour-piercing shell, the new gun fired the AP shell at some 750 m/s (2,460 ft/s), a substantial…
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.