Beute LKW

A T-34 or Sherman crew would never get to see this.They would be dead long before.A Tiger uses a haystack as camouflage,date/location not mentioned.

Game over!

PzKpfw V, Ausf G, destroyed in the Rhineland, November 1944.  The dead crew member in the foreground may be the main gun loader, whose entry/exit hatch is shown open.  This hatch was also used by the loader to expel used shell cases when in action, in order to minimise congestion and the build-up of fumes in the turret.  The original caption to this photo suggested that the man had been blown through the hatch by an internal explosion; more likely, perhaps, is that he exited the hatch and was killed immediately thereafter.  Note the additional tracks attached to the side-rear of the tank.  Panthers using this type of supplementary protection tended to apply it to the sides of the turret or, as here, to the side-rear (covering the fuel tanks), rather than to the extremely robust front plate, reflecting the relative vulnerability of the Panther's flanks.  The tank appears to be covered with a light coating of Zimmerit ant-magnetic plaster.  Best regards, JR.