{"id":88654,"date":"2024-08-08T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=88654"},"modified":"2024-04-24T20:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:38:22","slug":"panzer-iii-versatile-stalwart-of-the-panzer-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/08\/08\/panzer-iii-versatile-stalwart-of-the-panzer-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Panzer III: Versatile stalwart of the Panzer force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNWimJW0Akw?si=Fjw6S2n8R1ruSJ5g\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Apr 19, 2024<\/p>\n<p>See inside the Panzer III and discover the story of the most numerous German armoured fighting vehicle of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Intended as the German army&#8217;s main gun tank, with its brother, the Panzer IV, acting as support, the Panzer III fought in Europe and North Africa but was effectively obsolete by 1942 in the face of better opposition like the Soviet T-34.  So the two changed places \u2013 an up-gunned Panzer IV becoming the gun tank with the Panzer III &mdash; now with a short barrelled 75mm gun &mdash; in the support role. This wouldn&#8217;t last long &mdash; but the Panzer III chassis would form the basis of the highly successful Stug III.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Introduction<br \/>\n00:15 | Background<br \/>\n02:12 | Two Similar Designs<br \/>\n02:57 | Panzer III Designs<br \/>\n10:22 | Take a Look Inside<br \/>\n14:46 | An Interview with Mike Hayton<br \/>\n23:52 | What&#8217;s it like to Drive?<br \/>\n26:00 | Conclusion <\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<br \/>\n#tankmuseum #panzeriii<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published Apr 19, 2024 See inside the Panzer III and discover the story of the most numerous German armoured fighting vehicle of World War II. Intended as the German army&#8217;s main gun tank, with its brother, the Panzer IV, acting as support, the Panzer III fought in Europe and North Africa but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[991,140,1298],"class_list":["post-88654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-design","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-n3U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88655,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88654\/revisions\/88655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}