Need Help Identifying: Panther Tank Emblem Kursk

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Need Help Identifying: Panther Tank Emblem Kursk

Post by cjg476 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:37 pm

What unit is this emblem from?

I cant find anything in my books.

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Is this just a made up symbol??

Its from the Kursk-Defeat in the East.
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Re: Need Help Identifying: Panther Tank Emblem Kursk

Post by RAD 2112 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:11 pm

Looks like a centaur...
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Re: Need Help Identifying: Panther Tank Emblem Kursk

Post by cjg476 » Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:39 pm

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I.Abteilung/Fallschirm-Panzer-Regiment "Hermann Göring". If you look carefully you can see the Luftwaffe eagle on the crew's caps. The tank's commander in the turret (wearing a Knight's Cross) would be the later Lieutenant Colonel, Oakleaf holder and commander of Fallschirm-Panzer-Regiment "Hermann Göring", Karl Rossmann (1916-2002). Note that the tank (Panther Ausf. G, serial number 121081) is painted in the rare "disc pattern" which means your picture was taken not earlier than autumn 1944.
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