Company Officer's Handbook Of The German Army - All Gauge Page
Company Officer's Handbook Of The German Army - All Gauge Page
Company Officer's Handbook Of The German Army - All Gauge Page
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68 COMPANY OFFICER'S HANDBOOK<br />
Figure 55.-Eight-wheeled armored car<br />
has been<br />
(with<br />
captured<br />
75-mm short.barreled<br />
and reconditioned tank gun).<br />
by U.S. troops.)<br />
(<strong>The</strong> car<br />
L.T.H. (Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t)), a light tank with Christie-type wheels,<br />
have frequently been used for this purpose. Antitank and assault<br />
guns in particular are given greater mobility by the self-propelled<br />
mount. It is <strong>German</strong> tactical policy to avoid using tanks against<br />
tanks, but to use antitank guns against tanks, developing such<br />
self-propelled weapons as the Ferdinand for this purpose. Among<br />
common types of self-propelled guns are the 8 8-mm antitank guns<br />
(the Hornet (Hornisse) on a Pz.Kpfw. IV chassis and the Ferdinand<br />
on a Tiger chassis); the assault gun ( 7 5-mm long-barreled<br />
or short-barreled gun or 105-mm howitzer on a Pz.Kpfw. III<br />
chassis); the 105-mm howitzer on a Pz.Kpfw. II chassis, the Wasp<br />
(Wespe); the 150-mm howitzer on a Pz.Kpfw. IV chassis, the Bee<br />
(Hummel); and the 20-mm dual-purpose gun (either single- or<br />
four-barreled), which is frequently mounted on a half-track vehicle.<br />
Antitank and assault guns are not mounted in revolving turrets<br />
and usually can fire forward only. (See figs. 56 and 57.)
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