Panzer Tracts No.15-3: m.S.P.W. (Sd.Kfz.251) Ausf.C and D

Panzer Tracts No.15-3: m.S.P.W. (Sd.Kfz.251) Ausf.C and D Ausf.C & D. The Panzer Tracts team spent hundreds of hours precisely measuring surviving Ausf.Ds and associated components.

Thousands of hours were spent creating detailed as-built drawings of the Sd.Kfz.251/1, 251/2, 251/7, 251/8, 251/9, 251/10, 251/16, 251/21 and 251/22. To reveal details usually hidden in four-view drawings and photographs, drawings of the weapons (s.M.G., 8 cm Gr.W., 3.7 cm Pak, 7.5 cm K 37, 7.5cm K.51 and 1.5 cm and 2 cm Drilling) and other equipment are printed in the larger 1/20th scale on separate pages.

The book is packed with new information about the history, production, unit organisation, tactics and wartime reports from front-line units. As is the norm for Panzer Tracts, the text and data are wholly based on primary sources. 23 pages of scale drawings and 45 photos illustrate this 80-page book.

Contents

• Introduction
• Production
• Modifications
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/1)
• ‘Falke’: Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/1) mit U.R. Gerät
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (Granatwerfer) (Sd.Kfz.251/2)
• Mittlerer Funkpanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/3)
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (I.G.Mun.) (Sd.Kfz.251/4)
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (Pi) (Sd.Kfz.251/5)
• Mittlerer Kommandopanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/6)
• Mittlerer Pionierpanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/7)
• Mittlerer Krankenpanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/8)
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (7.5cm Kanone) (Sd.Kfz.251/9)
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (3.7cm Pak) (Sd.Kfz.251/10)
• Mittlerer Fernsprechpanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/11)
• Mittlerer Messtrupp und Gerätpanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/12)
• Mittlerer Schallaufnahmepanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/13)
• Mittlerer Schallauswertepanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/14)
• Mittlerer Lichtauswertepanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/15)
• Mittlerer Flammpanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/16)
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (2cm) (Sd.Kfz.251/17)
• Mittlerer Beobachtungspanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/18)
• Mittlerer Fernsprechbetriebspanzerwagen (Sd.Kfz.251/19)
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (Uhu) (Sd.Kfz.251/20)
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (1.5cm bzw. 2cm Drilling) (Sd.Kfz.251/21)
• Mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen (7.5cm Pak) (Sd.Kfz.251/22)

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