Uidentified Panzerstellung

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Jens Andersen
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Uidentified Panzerstellung

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Post by Jens Andersen » 28 Feb 2018, 13:57

Hi,

Can anybody identify the tank turret on the very blurry photo below? It is from a news paper, so I am afraid that it can't be made much better.

As far as I can see it is the turret from a Panzer II.

According to the text it should house a flame thrower, but I am very unsure whether that can be true. The turrest was photograhed in Blokhus/DK, and a quite detailed inventory doesn't mention a flame thrower in a turret, but a turret with a 2 cm machine canon. Could it simply be that the machine canon had been removed?

:?
Jens
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Lars Bertelsen
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Re: Uidentified Panzerstellung

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Post by Lars Bertelsen » 28 Feb 2018, 23:54

Hello Jens
Thanks for the picture, very interesting, although blurry. I think you are right – the cylinder on the front plate is a sleeve for a 2 cm KwK, not a flamethrower.
The turret seems to be a VK901 turret. All Panzer II turrets on bunkers in Denmark were VK901, except Aalborg and Grove (source: Panzer Tracts #21-1).
greetings Lars
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Jens Andersen
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Re: Uidentified Panzerstellung

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Post by Jens Andersen » 01 Mar 2018, 08:27

Hi Lars,

Thank you for the verification.

:D Jens

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