Soldiers of the Polish 1st Armored Division pose with a destroyed  German Jagdpanther SD.KFz 173.
This vehicle originally belonged to the Schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung 559 (heavy tank destroyer battalion) and was knocked-out during the Battle of Hechtel, Belgium (September 6-12, 1944).
The Jagdpanther (German: &quot;hunting panther&quot;) was a tank destroyer built by Nazi Germany during World War II, based on the chassis of the Panther tank. It entered service late in the war (1944) and saw service on the Eastern and Western fronts. The Jagdpanther combined the very powerful 88 mm PaK 43 cannon of the Tiger II and the characteristically excellent armor and suspension of the Panther chassis.   http://homepage.eircom.net/~safc/iwmj.htm

German Jagdpanther

Abandoned Polish Tankietka(tankette) TK-S.This photo was taken after the  battle of Tomaszow Lubelski (source www.feldgrau.net). Poland 1939

The Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski took place from 17 September to 26 September 1939 near the town of Tomaszów Lubelski. It was the second largest battle[1] of the Invasion of Poland (Battle of Bzura was the largest) and also the largest tank battle of the campaign. It resulted in the destruction of the Polish forces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tomasz%C3%B3w_Lubelski

Poland 1939

Column of Polish 7tp tanks moves through Cesin, Moravia, October, 1938.  This town and its district was the subject of a complicated border dispute between the new states of Poland and Czechoslovakia following the collapse of the Austria-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918.  In effect, it was divided between the two along ethnic lines, although this division was clearly not stable.  As Czechoslovakia disintegrated in the aftermath of the Munich Agreement, Poland effectively absorbed the whole district by force.

The 7tp tank was a Polish version of the Vickers 6-ton Tank, a vehicle not taken up by the British Army, but produced as a commercial/export tank by Vickers.  The Polish variant was considerably better armed than its British "parent", carrying a useful 37mm wz cannon as main armament, and was also slightly better armoured (17mm frontal as against 13mm for the "6-ton").  It also featured a more reliable (diesel) engine, and up-to-date features including an all-around-view commander's periscope and a radio.  As with other "children" of the Vickers 6-ton, a twin-turreted version, armed with machineguns, was also produced, but only in small numbers as it was quickly perceived as seriously undergunned.

The 7tp, although still a "light" tank and deficient in armour, was clearly superior to the German PzKpfw I and II light tanks, which formed the bulk of the panzer force involved in the invasion of Poland in 1939, and close in performance to the Germans' Czechoslovak-built PzKpfw 38(t).  It consequently put in several very creditable performances against the invading Germans.  However, the small numbers of single-turret variant available (perhaps only about 100), and their very poor deployment and tactical employment, limited their impact.  Most of those not destroyed in combat were, ultimately, destroyed by their crew to prevent capture, or withdrawn into Hungarian territory as Poland collapsed.  A small number of survivors entered German or Hungarian service.  Best regards, JR.