JAGDPANZ ER 38
Aug 05, 2021
3 minutes
WORDS CRAIG MOORE
The Jagdpanzer 38 ‘Hetzer’ tank hunter is a very misunderstood self-propelled anti-tank gun. For a start, it was not officially called the Hetzer during World War II.
Deriving from the German hunting term ‘hetzen’, meaning to hunt your prey at high speed until it collapses or is caught, only a handful of official wartime documents used the nickname Hetzer.
At a January 1944 meeting between German army ordnance officers and the Czech
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