Rare Jagdpanther Sd.Kfz. 173 - Footage.

0:03 During Operation Market Garden, a C-47 damaged by anti-aircraft fire while returning from a drop, The plane made a forced landing near Gheel and in the process collided with a abandoned German Jagdpanther, this Jagdpanther from 1. Kompanie of schwere Panzer-Jäger Abteilung 559 had been disabled during the fighting around Gheel around a week prior.
The crew all survived, with some already jumped out before the crash.
0:52 Abandoned Jagdpanther set on fire for the newsreels in France.
1:01 Jagdpanther being towed during the Battle of the Bulge.

The Jagdpanther or Panzerjager V was a
German tank destroyer during WWII based on the
chassis of the Panther tank
it entered service in late 1944 and saw service
on the Eastern and Western fronts.

The Jagdpanther was developed out of the a German project were they had two attempts at mounting an 8.8 cm gun as a self-propelled anti-tank weapon.
A design based on the 8.8 cm Pak 43 gun and the Panther tank chassis was ordered in late 1942. and several
prototypes were finished in October/November 1943.
and production started in January 1944.

The Jagdpanther combined the very powerful 88mm
Pak43 and the Panther Chassis.
But it suffered from several problems which the Panther tank also had, like engine fires and at the
end of the war, poor production was also one of them,
together with the poor maintenance and training
of the crews.
Which would result in many of the vehicles to be
abandoned.

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