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Did any Panther AusF F actually enter service. Or is that another WoT fantasy AFV?

Quoting page 113 of Germany's Panther Tank, by the venerable Jentz and Doyle; "As proven by a report listing their Fgst.Nr., all the Panthers (assembled at Daimler-Benz) issued to the next to the last unit were still Panther Ausf. G. Therefore, if a few Panther Ausf F had been successfully completed, they would have been issued on the 20 through the 23 April 1945 to the II./Panzer-Regiment 2 for immediate employment in the defense of the Berlin area." That is all they have to say on whether or not any Ausf F were completed and deployed. Several turrets were completed, several hulls were on the production lines at the end of the war, but there is no proof any were ever completed and deployed. Maybe the Russians know something we don't, since they fought there and we didn't. But if there were any Ausf F to be found in Berlin, I would think the Russians would have dragged it back home, presumably later to be found at Kubinka, since they seem to have just about every other oddball German vehicle there and this one would have been rather important to them. But after all, nobody knew they had a Maus until after the fall of the Soviet Union!"

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