280021 - T-34/85 – Mid & Late War tractor The Panzer IV Ausf D

The Panzer IV Ausf D & E

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Twenty-three US Army and eleven USMC battalions were equipped by 1945 with LVTs

The improved T-34-85 became the standard Soviet medium tank

280021 - T-34/85 – Mid & Late War tractor The Panzer IV Ausf DThe T 34 had well sloped armour, a relatively powerful engine, and wide tracks. The initial T 34 version had a powerful 76. 2 mm gun, and is often called the T 34 76. In 1944, a second major version began production, the T 34 85, with a larger 85 mm gun intended to deal with newer German tanks. The German Tiger I tank appeared on the Eastern Front in late 1942, as a response to the T 34. Soviet firing tests against a captured Tiger in April 1943