"24 Panzer Division stowage boxes." Topic

I have plenty of pictures of various patterns but cannot work out how they attached to the sloping rear plate. They appear NOT to have a corresponding slope at the base of the box but often fit flush with the plate that holds the fuel filler cap.

Other divisions versions seem easier to fathom but the Leaping Horseman is proving puzzling.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Porkmann:
I have no idea what the answer to your question is, but I could no longer look at the 0 replies on the Discussion Page; so I replied for some personal piece of mind. Sorry to waste your time.
Cheers.
Rod Robertson

I may be wrong but that is a PzIII isn`t it???

The only book I have on 24PD "J`ai Survecu dans mon Panzer"
is all about 12 squadron, 24th Panzer Regiment and that unit had only PzIVs and Stugs, none of which look anything like that from the rear – sorry!!!

Thanks for the moral support chaps! I have dug pout a few pictures from various Stalingrad tomes and 8 hours of googling! It is indeed a III many of 24 PD's had stowage boxes of various types attached to the rear deck.

These boxes seem to have been of diffent types depending upon the model of tank or perhaps whim of the builder.

I will probably put details on my blog in the near future.

Many pictures of PzIIIs on the Eastern Front show them with storage boxes across the rear like that.

Its not the real thing but it does show how the storage was attached and secured:

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Cheers.
Rod Robertson

Thanks Rod, some good photos there but not of PD 24.

Their boxes "appear" to be metal and less improvised.

I tracked down a different photo showing the box from the rear right and it may be the key!

Panzer IIIs are amazing nearly as nice as StuGs!