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Unarmoured schwere Wehrmacht Schlepper sWS
Specifications
| Name: | Gerät 71 |
| Additional specifications | (see the armoured and chassis section) |
| Own weight: | 9.5 ton |
| Max total weight: | 13.5 ton |
| Height: | 2.07m |
| Men: | 2 crew, 10 soldiers, or 4 stretchers and 6 sitting wounded and two medics |
Factory delivery |
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German manual picture. |
sWS manual cover 5-12-1943 |
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Factory |
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WH Trails |
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| The WVEE examened and stripped one in Farnsborough ( school of tank technology ) |  |
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| U.S. intellicence report 175 |  |
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Captured |
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Aberdeen |
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left hand corner, |
U.S. Manual photo |
Meppen, showing an unarmourd sWS with a 3.7 FlaK |
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| Panther encounter in the ardennes |  |
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www.cegesoma.be Liberation of Avelgem September 1944 |
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Ardennes encounters |
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4th army near the rhine; |
wider picture |
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Artillery |
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Burning |
Artillery tow |
Halted for gravel |
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Encounters |
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Summer camping |
Ragety kolonne in a town |
Passing through the town of Weyer, May 1945 |
Near the Berlin Flak-tower, a tiny spec. But it's an sWS |
Passing through town, a camouflaged sWS with a trailer |
Only info that came with this: Berlin. 2 sWS totaly burned |
Looks like there ready to move out. |
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Post-war picture at the Tatra factory. Armoured cab in the back |
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last revised: May 13 2024