Vehicles · Germany · 1942-1944

Marder II

tank destroyer

An open-topped Panzer II chassis fitted with a captured Soviet 7.62cm gun or the German PaK 40, the Marder II was a stopgap answer to the T-34 crisis of 1941-42, giving German infantry a mobile, if lightly protected, anti-tank weapon in large numbers.

crew	3
armament	1x 7.5cm PaK 40 or 7.62cm gun
produced	~860

Eastern Front, Western Europe

Marder II — Henisch · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. 7,5 cm Panzerjäger "Marder II" auf Pz.II — For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. 7,5 cm Panzerjäger "Marder II" auf Pz.IIHenisch · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source