German Armored Forces & Vehicles

PantherSchauf Ausf D - Fire Brigade [1]

NCY-152

If I understand German language of that page correctly, these kind of bulldozer panzers were used as parts of fire brigades that cleared rubble created by Allied air raids. Panther with the plow was only used in clearing street in probably Nuremberg it was somwhere speculated that this Panther D was converted by MAN during an overhaul because there's no gun some other tanks (a few P III and P IV, not the VI, writing error in the german text of the picture) were also used with a plow, mainly used by fire brigades As far as I know it there was no usage of such tanks in combat units but as always with the german Wehrmacht, You learn every day something new about it.