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4 unusual facts about Panzer IV


Clyde L. Choate

Our infantry occupied a position on a wooded hill when, at dusk, an enemy Mark IV tank and a company of infantry attacked, threatening to overrun the American position and capture a command post 400 yards to the rear.

Henry F. Warner

Seeing a Mark IV tank looming out of the mist and heading toward his position, Cpl. Warner scored a direct hit.

SS Panzer Brigade Gross

On 28 August the Brigade was moved to Estonia and remained in the area of Lake Peipus until early September By 12 September the Brigade's panzer battalion now counted eight Panzer III, one Panzer IV, one Panzer IV, three Panther tanks, one StuG and 17 Sd.Kfz. 251.

Tel Faher

Two Syrian artillery battalions with M46 Soviet 130mm guns and two companies with heavy mortars and dug-in World War II German Wehrmacht PzKpfw IV tanks were positioned along the Golan escarpment.


Rudolf Säumenicht

He was awarded the Knight's Cross in October 1943, when with a kampfgruppe (battle group) consisting of one Panzer VI, five Panzer IVs and six Panzer IIIs, without orders, he launched a counterattack to halt a Russian breakthrough.


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