New Rare Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer WWII Footage - BergeHetzer.

New Rare Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer WWII Footage - and a BergeHetzer.

The Jagdpanzer 38 was developed by BMM and Škoda in 1943 on the Czechoslovakian Panzer 38(t) chassis, and it said that the design was based on the Romanian Mareşal tank destroyer.
The vehicle would be a cost-effective light tank destroyer to replace vehicles like the StuG III and Marder series and because the Jagdpanther and Jagdtiger designs of the same period proved to be costly and had massive mechanical problems in the field.

Prototypes of the Jagdpanzer 38 were ready by 1944 and mass production began in April of that year. The Jagdpanzer 38s first entered service in July 1944, and would eventually be assigned to a number of units, including infantry, Panzerjäger and Volksgrenadier divisions.

The Jagdpanzer 38 proved great defensive ability over other self-propelled guns, because of it's low silhouette, making an important contribution on both the Eastern and Western Fronts.
It would see a weight reduction in the production years and several things were changed to simplified the manufacturing process.
The Jagdpanzer 38 is popularized with the name Hetzer but it was never called Hetzer by the Germans during the war, the name was the designation for a related prototype, the E-10. The Škoda factory for a very short period confused the two names in its documentation, later historians made the name popular in their books.

After the war, Czechoslovakia continued to build the type (versions ST-I and ST-III for training version, about 180 units built) and exported 158 vehicles (version G-13) to Switzerland. Most vehicles in today's collections are of Swiss origin.

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■ Information obtained from several sites.
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■ the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Panzers
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■ pantser.net
■ the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France

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