Seen this bloke on Friendface, Ike? Assuming you might have, but just in case: FB - Stug III ausf.D restoration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co_i-i1rWf8 Elefant Ferdinand FW190 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6LL4tCTXEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujqSxIe-RZk ______More technical presentation of the Jagd Tiger. They are really tough in World of Tanks. So is my E-100, lumbering beasts.
There is something oddly appealing about the StuG profile isn't there? It has a look that perfectly conveys it's basic functional effectiveness with absolutely no superfluous additions. If I were a Soviet tank commander I'd hate to face these things. Such a low profile that they barely look like a vehicle at all, since the gun is set just a few inches above the tracks. The 75L gun is lethal from any armor facing, then add to that they were one of the few AFVs that the Germans came close to actually mass producing. Easy to conceal, mobile, quite lethal, and relatively numerous. A potent combo, especially on defense, which the Germans were most of the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnHGJMNjn8 Here's one action scene, unfortunately only from a movie, using real StuG's and T-34s. The events happen in mid June 1944 in Kuuterselkä, Karelian Isthmus.
the t-34´s seem to shoot just everywhere but the StuG´s but the german vehicles had balanced shooting system which the T-34´s missed. I also read that once the sights were set correctly if you hit a tree or something else with the barrel, you could miss everything because the sights were mostly wrong set.Not sure how true this is.
I very rarely hunt for German stuff on IWM. Quite fertile... though maybe more 'knackered and/or under new management' than 'In action'. THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944. © IWM (NA 15430)IWM Non Commercial Licence "Fusilier F Jefferson of 'C' Company, 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers in front of a German StuG III assault gun which he knocked out with a PIAT, May 1944." Jefferson's VC citation here: http://www.lancs-fusiliers.co.uk/feature/jefferson/JeffersonVCcitation1.jpg THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944. © IWM (NA 15779)IWM Non Commercial Licence "A line-up of German and Italian AFVs during a display of captured enemy equipment, 2 June 1944. In the foreground can be seen StuG IV and Stug III assault guns with two Marder tank destroyers behind. In the background two Italian Semovente SP guns can be seen." (One of my favourite WW2 photos... dunno why really, just is.) THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944. © IWM (NA 15178)IWM Non Commercial Licence "Troops examine a knocked-out German StuG III assault gun near Cassino, 18 May 1944. Two 75mm AP rounds from a Sherman tank have neatly penetrated its front armour." THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORMANDY 1944. © IWM (B 9464)IWM Non Commercial Licence "A German StuG III assault gun on its side in the river at Putanges, 20 August 1944." THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944. © IWM (NA 15684)IWM Non Commercial Licence "A knocked-out German StuG IV assault gun, 29 May 1944" THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN 1944. © IWM (B 9581)IWM Non Commercial Licence "Knocked-out German StuG III assault gun and soft-skin vehicles shot up by Allied fighter-bombers, 21 August 1944" THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-45. © IWM (B 15052)IWM Non Commercial Licence "Men of the 4th Royal Welch Regiment construct a dug-out by the side of a knocked-out German StuG III assault gun near Weeze, 3 March 1945" (Fantastic shot I don't think I'd noticed before.) THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1943. © IWM (NA 6864)IWM Non Commercial Licence "Men from 40th Royal Tank Regiment try out a captured German StuG III assault gun, 14 September 1943"
Batterie/Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 237/330.Infanterie-Division/ IX.Armee-Korps/4.Armee/Heeresgruppe Mitte, with his crew and StuG III Ausf.G. - Ostfront '42/43 They are still smiling - sort of. But not for long. https://www.google.com/search?q=photos+of+stugs+ww2&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS557US557&espv=2&biw=1600&bih=799&tbm=isch&imgil=nxOlF5LI8QZYyM%253A%253BLknYkMdRTSx9pM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fforums.gamesquad.com%25252Fshowthread.php%25253F104031-WW2-Photos%25252Fpage6&source=iu&pf=m&fir=nxOlF5LI8QZYyM%253A%252CLknYkMdRTSx9pM%252C_&usg=__pyzU1aRWKL_OrexyDrwiJyzBS7M%3D&ved=0CDMQyjc&ei=2HheVZ3cPNGdyATuk4CQBQ#imgrc=BEMItq_HxZVnpM%253A%3BTibR0BttGlqfwM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fs-media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%252F736x%252F15%252F4a%252Fa8%252F154aa897da77f9208873d81ebe6ce5d5.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fhistomil.com%252Fviewtopic.php%253Ff%253D352%2526t%253D16088%2526start%253D30%3B736%3B460
23 Stug. Brigade(Eastern Front) kept a record of its ammo consumption and target type 1/12/43 to 31/5/44. That is 6 months. 315,280 rounds fired. 51,595 at tanks. Of the 51,595 rounds, 8.3% HE, 21.2% HC and 70.5% AP(36,374). 88.1% (48,235)of targets were non AFV. 11.9% (6,574) were AFV. These figures reflect the fact that tanks are a very small area of the Stug's remit and consequently a small part of its prey. In October 1944 it was noted that the L/48 Stug has reached the limit of its effectiveness and that Allied tanks were achieving kills at ranges where the Stug was ineffective. The situation was so bad that they started to organise Escort batteries to protect the Stug Brigades! See pages 206 & 217/218 Muller & Zimmermann, Strumgeschutz III Vol 1
I'm curious if the Stug could of mounted the KwK 42 gun used on the panther without too much trouble?
Nice pics. Wonder about the picture in post 12 pic 4. Listed as a Stug 3, the picture shows the "pigs head" around the main gun. Isn't the difference between Stuggs - the shaped armour vs the angled armour around the neck of the 75mm gun?