Regarded by many as one of the greatest tanks ever built, the
German Panther is probably the finest medium tank of the Second
World War. Some 7,000 were made, combining firepower, armour
protection and mobility that was unmatched by any other tank of the
period. On the Eastern Front it was the primary nemesis of the
Russian T-34 tank in the last two years of the war. Ironically, the
Panther's genesis lay in the need for the Germans to come up with a
new tank design after the T-34 had rendered the Panzer III obsolete
almost overnight after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. The
Panther made its combat debut in Russia at the Battle of Kursk in
July 1943 and all major German tank development after this point
was influenced by the design features of the T-34. Soviet tank
crews were not alone in recognising the Panther as a deadly
adversary. The Allied armies in Europe encountered it during the
Normandy campaign in 1944 and considered the Panther to be the most
formidable German armoured fighting vehicle in Europe through to
1945. Such was the effectiveness of the Panther that the French
Army used it for a period after the Second World War as it rebuilt
its own armoured force.
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