Table of Contents

CONTENTS

1 THE PANTHER STORY
Dealing with Russia – a lesser affair than France!
Flawed German assumptions about the Red Army’s tank force
The KV-1 and T-34 shock
The Panzer Commission to Russia
There can be only one
The essentials of the MAN Panther

2 PRODUCTION OF THE PANTHER AND ITS VARIANTS
Production of the Panther
Panther variants: part one
The production status of the Panther and the
Emergency Panzer Programme of January 1945
Panther variants: part two
Panther variants: part three

3 ANATOMY OF THE PANTHER
Introduction
Part one: the hull exterior
Part two: the hull interior
Part three: the turret and main armament

4 PANTHER WALK-AROUND

5 PANTHER AT WAR
‘Our problem child’
Into combat – the Panther at Kursk
The Panther in Italy
Panthers in action on the eastern border of Poland, late summer 1944
Preparing for the invasion in the West
Panthers in Normandy
Reflections

APPENDIX
Panther Ausf G specifications

Select bibliography
Index

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About the Author

MARK HEALY is the author of the Haynes T-34 Tank Manual as well as Midway 1942, The Tiger Tank Story and Zitadelle: The German Offensive against the Kursk Salient 14–17 July 1943. He also produced the best-selling video series Die Deutschen Panzer. He lives in Dorset.