… Kurland, September 1944.
"The following montages gather together a variety of interconnected photos, many of which will be familiar to a lot of readers, having been published numerous times in the last four or more decades. Their appearance inevitably has however always been in a piecemeal fashion and arguably never with any accurate notion of what units they showed, nor where and when they were photographed.
This post therefore represents the first serious attempt to both pool together most of the better known images, but also to graphically analyse them in a comprehensive fashion as well. The purpose here being twofold: 1. to shed a strong light on their details and history for the public record; and 2. hopefully provide some inspiration for a future quality book by some well meaning author and publisher – something perhaps in the format and quality of Daniel Taylor's Villers-Bocage Through The Lens by After The Battle, for example.
Please note these images are not presented in the chronological order in which they were taken, rather they are clustered together based on subject matter alone. Perhaps fittingly, this article begins with a close look at the first vehicle revealed to many readers some 35 years ago, when it appeared in A&AP's seminal work Panzer Colours 2, by Bruce Culver, the "command panzer", aka "Brigitte":.."
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Armand