Osprey - SU - 76 Assault Gun Armoured Car Few accounts of the tank

Few accounts of the tank battles in the Western Desert during the Second World War have provided so vivid an evocation as Cyril Joly's classic account Take These Men

they had a troubled start to production

the Panther's story began with the Ausf

and used innovative sloped armor

By Simon Dunstan & The Tank Museum

Osprey - SU - 76 Assault Gun Armoured Car Few accounts of the tankBy Steven J. Zaloga. The Soviet SU 76 assault gun was one of the most common sights on the battlefields of the Eastern Front. Only the legendary T 34 was built in greater numbers. The SU 76 made its combat debut at Kirsk, and saw action on nearly all of the major fronts from 1943 to 1945. Inspired in part by the German Marder tank destroyers, Soviet designers had realised that the obsolete T 70 light tank chassis could take as much bigger gun if it