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"Able Fox Five to Able Fox. I got a target but ya gotta be patient."

The Panther was a little better than some others about absorbing damage. Not that they wouldn't necessarily be knocked out but the crew might have had a little longer- measured in seconds- to get out before fuel and ammo cooked off.

But if that artillery cartoonist Mauldin jokingly called for connected, the result could have been expected to offer results similar to the following Panther hit by a 100-kilogram aerial bomb.

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Is that a great site or what?

Panzer vs. Ausf. D "Panthers" of the SS Panther Division "Das Reich" make their debut during the initial stages of the German summer offensive for Kursk. This unit with others of the SS Panzer Korps made the deepest advances into the well prepared Soviet lines. Complete success was to elude them however when outrunning their supporting divisions at Prokhorovka they were forced to halt for six days.