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Thursday, August 6, 2015

What can you see in this picture?

Prior to holding this picture in my hands, I'd by no means suspect such an odd hybrid AFV would have ever existed! --I had learnt something about several improvement trials being done on Panzer I ausf. A chassis, in order to increase its firepower. One of such experiments consisted of what you can see in the picture below --but I had so far believed such hybrids had been discarded after the Breda 20mm gun "Modificado" version was ultimately adopted...
Panzer I estrany
This picture was taken in Barcelona's Diagonal Avenue in 1939. Therefore, this is a demonstration that at least one Panzer I ausf. A with T-26 turret was operational throughout the Spanish Civil War --for it arrived in Barcelona!