Fla.-Btl.(mot) 614, near Kharkov, 1942.
This battalion was the only outfit ever to be issued with this vehicle. The unit ceased to exist in January 1943 in Stalingrad.

Flakpanzer I

In the autumn 1943 after a mass bombing of factories &quot;Alkett&quot; in Germany the manufacture of assault guns has stopped and to their issue firm &quot;Krupp&quot; was connected.

Have here developed a new vehicle, by adapting a cabin from StuG 40 Ausf G for the chassis of the tank PzKpfw IV Ausf G. So it was possible to reduce creation of a new self-propelled gun and to begin its mass manufacture. The new vehicle has received the name &quot; Sturmgeschutz IV (SdKfz 163) &quot;. 
StuG IV was in manufacture from autumn 1943 up to autumn 1944, then it was replaced to Anti-tank self-propelled gun Jagdpanzer IV.

The vehicle has appeared more expensive and more hardly, than StuG 40, but carried greater Ammo for the main armament.

Sturmgeschütz IV

A soldier removes a DT machine gun from a destroyed T-34 Model 1941.