The Pak 40 - a hard hitting 75mm German anti-tank gun-seen here mounted on an SPW for greater battlefield mobility was essentially a scaled up version of the PaK 38 debuted in Russia where it was needed to combat the newest Soviet tanks there
for Hitlers Operation Sealion to be put into action
Later in the day Grenfell and his men helped to drag away British guns which were in danger of being captured
617 Sqn as the decisive Barnes-Wallace bouncing bomb skips towards the dam in the moonlit background
and escaped only by sending his P47-D Thunderbolt into a gut wrenching dive
Polish Winged Lancers - Battle of Vienna, September 12th 1683 by Brian Palmer. PER494 The Pak 40 - aDHM1695. Polish Winged Lancers Battle of Vienna, September 12th 1683 by Brian Palmer. In an attempt to expand into Europe, Ottoman Turks under the command of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa laid siege to Vienna for two months. A coalition of Polish, German and Austrians led by John III Sobieski, the King of Poland, arrived before Vienna to raise the siege. Sobieski led a charge of 20,000 cavalry, including the fearsome Winged Hussars into the Ottoman camp