Osprey - Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck Tank StuG including armoured recovery and bridge-laying

including armoured recovery and bridge-laying

FV107 Scimitar is an armoured reconnaissance vehicle (sometimes classed as a light tank) used by the British Army

the 761st Tank Battalion was forged in a devils cauldron of heat and prejudice at Camp Claiborne

the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War

Osprey - Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck Tank StuG including armoured recovery and bridge-layingBy Gordon L Rottman Paperback One of World War II's most distinctive weapons, the Panzerfaust was a low cost, simple, single shot, throwaway weapon that offered infantrymen the ability to destroy enemy tanks at close ranges. Germany had begun World War II with several inadequate antitank weapons for infantry use, supplemented by improvised and captured weapons and, from 1942, a hand delivered 3kg antitank shaped charge. As the fortunes of war turned