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**USED, BUT IN EXCELLENT CONDITION**
**VERY CLEAN
**DISPLAYED IN SEALED GLASS CASE
**FROM SMOKE-FREE ENVIRONMENT
****DUST-FREE !!****
**SORRY, NO INTERNATIONAL SALES
**SHIPPING TO LOWER 48 STATES ONLY
**PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY AT ALL 12 PICTURES
**ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT ME
****ONLY PROBLEMS WITH TANK ARE -- HINGE ON COMMANDER\'S TURRET HATCH IS BROKEN AND CHANGED COMMANDER FIGURE (ORIGINAL COMMANDER FIGURE WAS IN WINTER UNIFORM, WHEN BATTLE OF KURSK TOOK PLACE IN JULY!)
**THIS FORCES OF VALOR PANZER IV IS OF EXCELLENT DETAIL, AS ALL OF THEIR PRODUCTS WERE.
** I HAVE ADDED 2 EXTRA GASCANS, 2 SPARE ROAD WHEELS, A CASE OF AMMO. AND A RIDE-ALONG GERMAN SOLDIER.
****PLEASE BUY FROM AN AMERICAN IV AUSF. G (Sd. Kfz. 161/1 und 161/2
****PANZER REGIMENT 35/I BATTALION HEADQUARTERS OF THE 4. PANZER DIVISION AT KURSK****
**THE BATTLE OF KURSK IN JULY 1943, WAS THE LARGEST ARMORED BATTLE EVER FOUGHT.
**IT WAS CERTAINLY THE LAST MAJOR OFFENSIVE THE GERMANS WOULD MOUNT ON THE EASTERN FRONT
**THEREAFTER, THE GERMANS AND THEIR PANZER FORCES WOULD BE SLOWLY, BUT CONSTANTLY PUSHED BACK WEST, UNTIL FINALLY CAPITULATING IN MAY 1945.
**BY 1943, THE Pz.Kpfw IV WAS BEGINNING TO SHOW ITS AGE. EVEN THOUGH THE LONG BARRELED KwK L/48 COULD CONTINUED TO PENETRATE THE ARMOR OF THE SOVIET T-34, FROM A DISTANCE OF UP TO 3973FT., WHEN USING THE Pz.gr. 39 AMMUNITION, THE TANK COULD NO LONGER MATCH THE CAPABILITIES OF OF THE LATEST T-34/85 AND JS-122 HEAVY TANKS BEGINNING TO ENTER THE BATTLEFIELD IN GREATER NUMBERS.
**IT BECAME ALMOST STANDARD EQUIPMENT FOR THE PANZER IV TO \"WEAR\" SIDE SKIRTS OR SCHURZEN AROUND THE TURRET AND SIDES TO PROTECT AGAINST SIDE PENETRATIONS, ESPECIALLY BY HOLLOW CHARGES WHICH BURNED THROUGH THE TANK BEFORE EXPLODING.
**AFTER THE ABORTIVE KURSK OFFENSIVE, THE 4TH PANZER DIVISION WAS INVOLVED IN A LONG SERIES OF VERY COSTLY DEFENSIVE BATTLESHIP PROTECTING THE RETREAT OF ARMY GROUP CENTRE.
**THE PANZER IVG HAD A CREW OF 4, WEIGHED 23.5 TONS, WAS 21.7 FT LONG, 9.4 FT. WIDE AND 8.8 FT. HIGH. THE PANZER IV WAS POWERED BY A MAYBACH HL120TRM ENGINE. IT HAD A SPEED OF 24.9MPH, A RANGE OF 130.5 MILES AND POSSESSED A FuG5 RADIO. LIKE EARLIER PANZER III\'S AND IV\'S, THE ANTENNA MAST COULD BE FOLDED DOWN SIMPLY BY THE TURRET COMING IN CONTACT WITH IT AND IT WOULD RETRACT INTO ITS HOLDER.
**THE PANZER IV WAS TO BE SLIGHTLY UPGRADED TO THE AUSF. H/J, BUT THE UPGRADES WERE TOO LATE AND THE DESIGN WAS NOT CAPABLE OF ANY MORE \"SUBSTANTIAL\" UPGRADES.
**BECAUSE OF GERMAN COMPLEXITY, EARLY DESIGN FLAWS, INCREASED BOMBING, AND FINALLY OVERWHELMING NUMBERS OF ALLIED TANKS -- THE PANZERWAFFE COULD NOT PRODUCE ENOUGH OF THE SUPERIOR PANTHER. MOST PANZER DIVISIONS IN 1944/45 WERE COMPOSED OF 1 BATTALION OF PANZER IV AUSF. H/JG AND 1 BATTALION OF PANTHERS. THESE LATE WAR BATTALIONS COULD NOT BE KEPT AT FULL STRENGTH AND EVEN BEGAN TO HAVE STURMGESCHUTZ III\'S/IV\'S ADDED. IN THE END, IT WAS FUTILE.
