Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject: mobile armoured pill boxes
hi all.take a look at this ://www.lonesentry.com/artic httples/ttt/german-armored-portable-pillbox.html these were actually used in combat! so much so that the allies had officail strategy for attacking them, i bet for the average german soldat that it really made your day when you found out you were chosen for duty in one of them.
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: Re: link?
Cool article
ANZAC_Tack wrote:
there was a mod that had bunkers(basically immobile stug tanks with new graphics) first 75mm and twin mg42,then 5cmpak and mg34. king tiger armour.
Yeah. SAS if not mistaken. I really like those things. Nice unique unit for CC5. They are fun to deploy, and fun to attack. Wish we saw more of that stuff.
Yes, it is SAS. In the SAS mod it's called a Berutseitung (sp?) - which is more of a standard pill box than one of these smaller, mobile ones, but the idea is the same.
In the war/resistance museum in Overloon, Holland I've seen an even smaller version of this, it just had room for 1 person standing and had no means for defence, it was purely for observers. I guess these observers were extra motivated to keep the enemy at a distance with artillery. It didn't look hard to topple these things over and roll them down a hill or something
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:18 am Post subject: Ye.
Ye
I can’t help love them; steel and cement make me smile.
Anyway, the later versions included a Panther turret of a simpler model. It had a hatch in the turret roof, a bit simpler then the tank turret version.
The gun was the same, 7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70
The whole idea was to move it as the need came. There is no cement in this construction described here. (was maybe in other types unknown to me).
The crew compartment was made up by two welded steel boxes, one placed on the top of each others. The messure of the box was 3,3*2,8 meter and hight of the top box was 1 meter, and lower 2 meters for the lower box. According to this, the steel had dimension of up to 100mm in the roof of the top box.
There was three beds in it, a fan for air circulation, food, etc.
Preparations: They dug a 3.5 meter hole, the 2 boxes was lifted into it.
As it’s not clear to me, but it seems some 250 of this type was build.
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