140 - How to kill a Panther tank
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It's a simple question, how do you knock out a Panther tank? When the 'boffins' in Britain got hold of a Panther it's the question they were tasked with finding an answer for.
Using official reports and documents, Craig Moore has been through the archives piecing together all the faults that the British saw in the German Panther during WWII. In this episode, I discuss with him the chinks that were found in the amour of the German tank.
Craig is the author of How to Kill a Panther Tank and How to Kill a Tiger Tank.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War Two podcast, I'm Angus Wallace. |
| 0:05.5 | It is a question for you. |
| 0:07.4 | How did the Allies plan on tackling and knocking out the German panther tanks when they encountered |
| 0:12.9 | them? |
| 0:13.9 | Well, friend of the podcast Craig Moore has been through the archives looking at the |
| 0:18.1 | unpublished British scientific reports which are all laid out in his new book How to |
| 0:24.4 | Kill a Panther Tank. |
| 0:26.8 | Welcome back Craig. |
| 0:27.8 | It's great to have you with us once more. |
| 0:31.6 | How did you approach the topic? |
| 0:33.4 | The idea of this book was not to do yet another panther tank book. |
| 0:39.7 | My publisher came out and said, Craig, can you do me a tiger book or a panther book? |
| 0:44.4 | I thought there were so many ones out there already. |
| 0:46.8 | So I refused. |
| 0:47.8 | I said no, refused. |
| 0:49.9 | And then when I was in the archives looking for something else and it always happens, you |
| 0:54.8 | stumble on something. |
| 0:56.8 | I suddenly found British firing trials on a panther tank. |
| 1:02.4 | They were trying to work out its weaknesses so that they could then tell the guys that |
| 1:07.5 | are going to normandy. |
| 1:09.3 | This is how you deal with this new threat, this new panther tank and that got me hooked. |
| 1:14.8 | And then I found out that they did them on the tiger as well, but on the panther tank |
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