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UNIQUE ID 156: PANZERKAMPFWAGEN IV TANK

(Model: Ausf D)

The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Britain

(Location: World War 2)


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Unique ID: 156
Added to Database: May 2008
Last Edited: 22 March 2012
Type (ID): Panzerkampfwagen IV (90)
Model (ID): Ausf D (172)
Location Category (ID): The Tank Museum - Public Areas (3000)
Location (ID): World War 2 (3010)
Serial Number: 80732.
Registration:
Name:
Other Identification: “419” painted on turret sides. Unit markings painted on hull front and rear. German crosses painted on hull sides. Painted overall in a sand and green camouflage scheme (previously overall sand).
Collection Reference: E1951.29. (Accession 2951 , Entry 1951.1013).
Links: Museum Vehicle Record
References: ‘Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two’, P. Chamberlain and H. Doyle: plate 292 on page 92 shows an NSKK PzKpfw IV D/H that is possibly this vehicle.
Associated Tanks:

Location History:
(see map)

1: Krupp-Gruson Werk AG, Magdeburg, Germany (Built 1940)
2: Germany (NSKK service until 1945)
3: Directorate of Tank Design, Chertsey, Surrey, South East England, Britain (Until 1951)
4: The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location)


Text in original Preserved German Tanks publication:

This Ausf D has spaced armour in front of the driver’s and operator’s positions, and additional armour on the superstructure sides and nose. It also has Schürzen armour on the turret and has been re-armed with the 7.5cm KwK 40 L/43. It was at the School of Tank Technology, Chobham Lane, Chertsey, before being moved to Bovington. It is believed to have been captured at a tank driver training school (NSKK) in 1945. It is now part of a D-Day display.
The museum used to have a second Panzerkampfwagen IV but this was given back to Germany in 1960. It is now part of the Panzermuseum collection at Munster.

Text in Preserved German Tanks Update:

This Pz IV was built in 1940 by the German manufacturer Krupp, and was upgraded in 1943. Its service with the Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrerkorps, NSKK (National Socialist Motor Corps) was probably as a driver training tank. It was gifted to the Bovington museum in 1951.

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March 2011

Front right view
1: Front right view

Taken: 10 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7123
Added: 21 March 2012
Filename: 56231099...
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Upper rear left view
2: Upper rear left view

Taken: 10 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7124
Added: 21 March 2012
Filename: 56237126...
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Front right view
3: Front right view

Taken: 9 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7121
Added: 21 March 2012
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Rear right view
4: Rear right view

Taken: 9 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7122
Added: 21 March 2012
Filename: 56231153...
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Front view
5: Front view

Taken: 6 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7120
Added: 21 March 2012
Filename: 56231207...
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October 2008

Front view
6: Front view

Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 4774
Added: 5 April 2011
Filename: P1030877...
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Close-up
7: Close-up

Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 4775
Added: 5 April 2011
Filename: P1030880...
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Rear left view
8: Rear left view

Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 4776
Added: 5 April 2011
Filename: P1030881...
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Rear view
9: Rear view

Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 4777
Added: 5 April 2011
Filename: P1030882...
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Rear right view
10: Rear right view

Taken: 27 October 2008
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 4778
Added: 5 April 2011
Filename: P1030883...
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October 1982

Front right view
11: Front right view

Taken: 26 October 1982
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 6747
Added: 12 February 2012
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Date Unknown

The Ausf D at Bovington
12: The Ausf D at Bovington

Taken: Date Unknown
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 79
Added: 28 May 2008
Filename: Scan_PzI...
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