Panther Ace

Succesful Panther commanders seem to be, atleast in german records, far more rare than Tiger commanders. One of these is SS-Obersturmfuhrer (lieutenant) Malkomes.
   

"In the course of the further heavy fighting on the invasion front, Malkomes was wounded for the fifth time on August 7th, 1944.

SS-Ostuf. Malkomes, fighting with his company in the course of his previous missions, captured or destroyed:

147 tanks
14 assault guns
43 guns
52 anti-tank guns
84 anti-tank rifles
20 trucks
1 half-track
1 scout car
2 armored cars

of which Malkomes shot personally:

24 tanks
31 anti tank gun
12 guns
15 trucks
2 armored cars"


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The curious case of Ronson, Part 1.

Image
What is it?    Practically all people familliar with the history of WWII and tanks in particular are aware of the bad reputation of the M4 Sherman tank for being prone to catching on fire after penetration, to the point it was nick-named "Ronson" by the british tank crews, after a brand of cigarette lighter. People dispute this mainly because the nickname is sometimes joined with the slogan - "Lights first, every time." Origins of this slogan are rather unclear, as none of the interwar slogans seem to display this exact phrase, this one coming closest : The ad was released in 1927. But was it really like that?    Early modifications programmes of applique armor over sponson stowage, and wet ammunition racks suggest that this problem manifested even with early Sherman tanks in North Africa and Italy. And while wet stowage definetly helped, applique armor was deemed ineffective. However, an entirely separate problem surfaced in Italian campaig...
Read more

Motorization in Wehrmacht, pre-war era.

Image
New myths to replace the old "You have horses! What were you thinking!" - Is a now famous line from band of Brothers series, which came to symbolise the German army's lack of motorised transportation, or what  looked like a lack of motorised transportation from the point of view of a simple US infantryman observing a collumn of german prisoners of war marching into captivity. If we forget that we are talking about a TV series and the context, that observation was not completely wrong. Other people, taking a more "serious"(and yet more simplistic) approach, just looked at the number of Panzer and Motorised divisions in relation to infantry divisions at any given time in german army, and they came to the conclusion that Wehrmacht was roughly 80% horse-drawn, which is mostly based on conjecture and out-dated information.[1] Even if one would accept that german infantry divisions were mostly horse-drawn, due to the number of horses compared to vehicles, it stil...
Read more

Missing in the German army, 1.6.1941 to 31.12.1944

Image
 - Collumns numbered 2, 3 and 4 are monthly averages of losses for given time periods, 5th is a month where highest average losses occured. collumns 6 and 7 are monthly losses according to preliminary reports. A.) Missing I. Heer (including field and reserve army, Waffen-SS and volunteer formations)  () - numbers in brackets are the number of officers included Total - 1,596,703 (25,743) a.) East - 999,746  (15,797) b.) Geb. AOK 20 - 6,856 (135) c.) AOK Norway u.W.B. Denmark - 236 (9) d.) Ob. South-west - 189,817 (4,574) e.) Ob. South-east - 13,838 (207) f.) Ob. West - 384,963 (5,005) g.) Reserve army -  1,247 (16) II. Kriegsmarine : Total - 34,395 (1,875)  - including: a.) Atlantic and other oceans - 20,098 (1,277) b.) East - 7,578 (281) c.) Mediterranean Sea - 6,719 (317) III. Luftwaffe: Total - 147,112 (7,159) - including: a.) West and Greater Reich area - 45,478 (2,281)  b.) South - 53,339 (2,170) ...
Read more