Tank Chats #99 | StuG III | The Tank Museum

Here David Willey discusses the Sturmgeschütz III Self-Propelled Assault Gun, better known as the StuG III, Germany's most numerously produced fully tracked Armoured Fighting Vehicle of the Second World War.
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[@dr.strangelove6118]

being a better history channel then the actual history channel

[@ThePhoenix198]

Unfortunately, that doesn't take very much nowadays

[@steventessitore3246]

Stay tuned for this evenings special on how the Ancient Egyptians got the plans for the Stug from alien explorers.

[@kw19193]

Wait a minute mate - are you actually trying to suggest that the History Channel has something to do with history . . ? Cheers!

[@eddiemoreland5604]

The PC is so off the scale history can’t be history. They skipped Chancellorsville and it was The Greatest Victory by Any AMERICAN General in History. 60,000. Defeated 132,000. Robert E. Lee was and is The Best American General in American History. It’s just not PC for “that” to be the case. That’s not History! That’s B.S.! Rommel was a great General but, they have to make it look like Montgomery “out smarted” him. I don’t want propaganda I want true accurate HISTORY!

[@TheSeanoops]

“History Channel”

[@SuperShanook]

It's ridiculous how sir Willey manages to continue his talk for such an extended period of time without cuts in editing (as far as I've noticed). Excellent presentation!

[@johnny_pilot]

Pity it wasn't edited though... referring to the StuG III as a tank many times among other inaccuracies. Most people these days don't care about standards though.

[@TheZINGularity]

@@johnny_pilot most people don't care about YOUR standards*

[@Rokaize]

@@johnny_pilot He’s using that term because that’s the colloquial term for it. He goes over, in detail, that the stugs were formed as part of the artillery corps. You are a poor listener.

[@TheBob3759]

He knows his business.

[@Not-a-bot222]

Obviously Johnny P is more intelligent on the subject and could do his videos better.

[@darkawakening01]

My Grandfather was a StuG III driver and mechanic at Army Group South. He still talks tenderly about his trusty StuG "Langrohr" (long barreled Ausf. G). He liked to point out the comfortable interior, the vehicle´s reliability, good armor protection as well as armament and particularly the highly superior optics when compared to captured T-34s. He was a member of Sturmgeschütz-Abteilung (later Brigade) 228.

[@leriku2270]

Thats sick, and yeah the t-34s had polished metal (steel i think) as optics

[@taylorc2542]

Document those stories.

[@wanderingnomad1]

@@leriku2270t34 was a terrible tank

[@darkawakening01]

@@ClevorBelmont What do you mean?

[@kevinbiggs9606]

@@leriku2270 sick that his grandad was in the Wehrmacht?

[@PatGilliland]

The Tank Museum - providing essential morale services worldwide during times of crises.

[@coolminecraft1457]

Pat G and models don’t forget the models

[@SuperMookles]

@wakenbaker-uk You're coming across as being a grade-A imbecile. Please stop now before you embarrass yourself any further.

[@toruko-ishibravo2zulu679]

I found a Canadian military museum for their Engineers had a tank in it. It had a story too interesting to share in KZbin and that exhibit has since been moved closer to their Capital City. I still use a CDF mountain warfare training area for vertical training and my speleology.

[@ivorbiggun710]

Have you seen their Christmas advert on YT? Certainly cheered me up.

[@bbcmotd]

I hope we will see updated tank chats on Tiger, Panther, Tiger II, Ferdinand etc. Those old ones 5 minute long just aren't enough. I totally love these 20-30 minute ones though, especially the extensive tank chat on T-34.

[@Sofus.]

WOW I didn't even realize the video was that long

[@JohnyG29]

There's only so much you can say about some tanks. They're all basically big metal boxes with tracks and guns.

[@reganmahoney8264]

With an empty museum it’s a lot easier for them to do these longer videos...

[@scoutdogfsr]

I completely agree that the increased duration videos are more entertaining and informative regardless of model or country of origin.

[@mjr234nyu]

I agree. Just purchased one of the museum tee shirts to support the effort.

[@giants2k8]

The aesthetics of German armor are quite exquisite. From the Stugs and Panzer IVs to the Panther and Tigers.

[@cineffect]

Very menacing.

[@RetroRift.]

Extremely mesmerizing

[@himaro101]

It's basically the Hurricane to the Spitfire. Sure, the spitfire was flashy and a brilliant plane, but the hurricane was the workhorse

[@roybennett6330]

Quite rightly so more bang for your mark$$

[@wernesgruder1]

More Hurricanes than Spitfires in the Battle of Britain

[@leeham6230]

@@wernesgruder1 Yup. It's scary to think that the poor British pilots had to fight FW-190 and BF-109 planes with their hurricanes.

[@left_ventricle]

@@leeham6230 Early Spitfire and Hurricane is not that much far apart from each other in terms of performance. The gap is surprisingly un-huge though there is a certain gap. Add the fact that 190 did not particularly show up till about early 42, Hurricane is not a poor performer. Admittedely Spitfire was generally slightly superior to 109 while Hurricane was generally inferior. Hurricane is outdated design even for 1941 while Spitfire still had a lot of room for development. Obviously a superior performing plane but Hurricane has better aircraft systems and much easier repairs and more.

[@MrRugbylane]

@@left_ventricle and in 1940 and later the Hurricane was a better gun platform. They never tried to put twin 40mm guns on a Spit !

[@jimnewton4064]

What also is unmentioned in the article is that as the StuG was a tank under the artillery branch received "artillery" optics, and were much higher quality to the regular army tanks thus allowing kills at much further ranges. This allowed the 75L24 to be used to such deadlier results. Hitler may have blundered much of World War 2, but his call for a longer 75 gun was spot on.

[@herptek]

Soviet armor was proving too thick for ordinary early war German tank types to deal with. What was called for is just economical way to have as many platforms toting a 75 on the field as possible.

[@papaaaaaaa2625]

That's funny. My Son is sitting downstairs and build his new Cobi STUG III...what an coincidence. Best wishes to all of you, stay healthy!

[@israelgibson240]

I pulled this up and have it looped it while I'm building my new Afrika Korps Cobi StuG III for my classroom lol

[@isdrevenge8764]

May I recommend the Bismarck. But pricey but worth it. COBI are a very good company with amazing models considering they're made of Lego

[@riptidegaming8876]

im doing a tamiya 1/35 stug 3 g at the moment and im doing a battle of the bulge one

[@jeroenvandenberg5750]

Start early

[@MRKapcer13]

The real workhorse of the German Army right here. This is the armoured vehicle that allies on both fronts would have to face the most through the war.

[@yxada1998]

The Soviets actually had a book detailing how to deal with these. It's clear they considered it very dangerous.

[@daffyduck7336]

I spent some time crawling a round the stug III at the Littlefield collection (4days in all) and was very impressed by the layout of this vehicle and the production probabilities (cheap) of it , and how did the allies missed out on it. The only that would come close was the M50&50A1 Ontos which was well after WW2. I met some WW2 tankers when stationed in Bose Idaho ,they showed up at my "tank barn" ,4th tank Bn "C" Co. they talked about how much they hated Stugs and Hustsels (spelling?) because the Germans could hide under or behind anything so easily! If you can't see it you can't hit it!

[@ffmdotcom]

@@daffyduck7336 I think you are referring to the 'Hetzer' (pronounced something like 'hat sir' for English speakers) which translates to baiter

[@kevinstewart449]

@@yxada1998 Rule 1 I guess was find it.

[@yxada1998]

@@kevinstewart449 Certainly in the later years when they were so effective in ambush. I want to say Military History Visualized has a video with the book. It details the German assault tactics when using them and how the Soviets countered.

[@bclmax]

history channel should be showing this stuff..oh wait i cancelled cable years ago because i got tired of pawn stars

[@Cowmanik]

"Best I can do is vaguely reference World War 2..." -Rick Harrison

[@strangeboy904]

What does pawning have to do with history anyway?

[@warlerker]

DOES HITLER USE BLACK MAGIC TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY. - History channel.

[@overlord4453]

same... i mean.. what the heck is pawn stars

[@warlerker]

@@overlord4453 They sell things at Exceptional prices.

[@garyroberts1552]

Michael Wittmann began his run as a premier master of tank warfare (after serving for a time in armored cars) as commander of a Stug.III..Many of his tactics and methods carried over to his Tiger I commands, his close coordination between himself, driver, and gunner making for fast target aquisition and nimble maneuvers..all learned in his Stug III days.

[@alexandersarchives9615]

The moment the tank museum starts selling Stug life t-shirts is the moment I buy their entire stock

[@alexandersarchives9615]

@@Whatisthisstupidfinghandle Ontario Regiment Museum, prepare to be back-ordered!

[@martinwedel3588]

this man , need to make audio books - his voice is so calm .

[@EleanorPeterson]

As well as the refreshingly unbiased content and lack of partisan flag-waving where anything military is concerned, I really like David's presentation style. Excellent clarity.

[@isdrevenge8764]

Yep. Just facts Pure 100% facts

[@jidk6565]

No wehraboos in sight

[@theweppe27]

The Finnish army 29 StuGs destroyed at least 87 soviet tanks for a loss of only 8 StuGs. Many of them during the summer of 1944. These StuGs gained the nickname "Sturmi".

[@Caratacus1]

... and then Finland surrendered for the second time.

[@FinnishDragon]

Finland didn´t surrender because Soviet Union didn´t occupy Finland. Nations like Romania and Hungary surrendered to Soviet Union since they were occupied by the Red Army.

[@juhokuusisto9339]

@@FinnishDragon The only occupation troops were in hotel Torni. 155 Soviet and 15 British members were in the Allied Monitoring Commission. They didn't get along at all with each other.

[@haroldfiedler6549]

You forgot to mention that several destroyed Stugs were destroyed by their crews for various reasons.

[@roybennett6330]

Saw a movie where finish soldiers were using stugs ,sort of a Finnish band of brothers,good see how other countries thought of ww2

[@baz6128]

Of all the fighting vehicles of WWII the Stug was always my favourite. Great video.

[@yagdtigercommander]

what not to love about it. Its like the gangsta of tank destroyers. I am every panzer be gangsta until the stug shows up unless elephants and big cats show up. Then Stug is like am I joke to you ? lol.

[@ingowalkerling5141]

Very well made information. In the early '70 I was an apprentice as an technical drawer in the MIAG factory in Brunswik. And we had to pass some practices in the manfacturing, and there although in "Halle 17", where these StuG were build in the 40ies. Later the Jagdpanther was manufactured on the same place. Back in the technical office I was glad to get access to the original drawings of the StuG and the Jagdpanther. Some of the former engineers were still there...

[@anthonyseta4566]

Outstanding video! I'm obviously three years too late in just discovering this gem of a video, but I'm overjoyed at finding this site and overwhelmed by the quality of this presentation. I'm looking forward to watching many other videos from the Tank Museum. Thank you!

[@yolanda231000]

I absolutely love these videos. Thanks David for taking the time during these trouble times to produce this wonderful video.

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

Remember to decorate your StuG with samurai banners for maximum tankery!

[@zafranorbian757]

You must learn to raise those banners in your heart instead of on the vehicle. Otherwise you'll pay a heavy price in battle.

[@the21stpanzer39]

@@zafranorbian757 true, so true

[@imrekalman9044]

Some Latin and German graffiti also helps.

[@elbucho8867]

Don’t forget the hippo

[@safatsadman]

Painting bright colors(e.g red)on your Stug is also important so that enemy sees you and you get the maximum fear factor.

[@andrewpease3688]

Please keep this up David. Despite having plenty to get on with motivation and morale has taken a bit of a dive and I'm sure its not just me that greatly appreciates your efforts.

[@andrewpease3688]

@@delayedpilot yes I'm OK thanks I was a bit down at the hight of the (a bit over the top, lockdown, with hindsight) lockdown and l was imagineing what people who are naturally depressive must be like. I think that the tank museum and quite a few other you tube channels were aware of this and stepped up their game.

[@williedesmond8201]

@@andrewpease3688 the tank museum's had to change things up as well because of the pandemic but I hear you its great content ,as you said about people with depression I suffer with it and things like this ordering ww2 books are a help doe ,there seems to be no end in site to this covid crap,hope you feel better than you where when you made the comment ,there some good content with people in the comments compared to other sites like boxing or mma sites a lot of clowns on there very negative so I don't bother getting involved I just watch the content because you make a comment and your called a casual or you know nothing. Smh .

[@chrism2027]

The funny thing is actually that the German assault guns happened on the chassis of the 3er Panzer series and they no longer knew where we should use the band and from that U3 was developed because the Panzer III was more than inadequate in comparison to the Panzer IV or the assault gun version B, C, D or the Stug 4 on the PZ 4 chassis. Later, with the T 38 tank, there was the same thing that they made the Panzerjaeger Hetzer out of it, which was a damn good idea in itself, if only there weren't various defects that were on Tratten after a certain time.

[@user-mp6xj3se7l]

This particular Stug Ps531-44 located at Bovington tank museum was lovingly nicknamed by the Finnish troops as "Maija" quite common finnish female name especially for the time. Almost all the 60 odd Stugs or "Sturmi"s used by the finns were nicknamed with a male or female first name.

[@andrewwood6285]

Yes the Vikings too named their swords.

[@mpersad]

Thank you, David. The videos that you and the team are putting out are a real tonic in difficult times. The "Ask the Curator" from your study or garden are particularly welcome. Stay well, and best wishes to all at Bovington.

[@yoda5565]

Very astute observation about the uniform difference of Assault Gun and Panzer crews. The Stug' is close to my heart as my Great Uncle fought in one during WWII. Good video.

[@toruko-ishibravo2zulu679]

I resided on small hill summit with my troop and learned to ignore requested fire missions of a tank battery. Never saw the type or crews. Just the vapor of discharges above trees between us. That was in my second year overseas and had volunteered again to serve. Was promised 2 hours of sleep every 24 hours but took what I could get.

[@raycearcher5794]

Absolutely SLATHERED with Zimmerit!

[@d0nutwaffle]

Shurtzen in 3rd Reich : stylish metal sides Shurtzen in Finland : Pines

[@vesaruntti]

and added concrete armour.

[@Orb_Pilot]

There's also applique armour between the tracks, which you can see on the vehicle in this video. Finns weren't too fond of Schürtzen (not exactly practical in forests) so they decided to simply move the armour on the vehicle itself.

[@wiryantirta]

people to fins: "no Finland thats not what we meant by 'organic' armour'"

[@kimmoj2570]

@@wiryantirta Pile of logs near roadside is the most natural camouflage there can be in Finnish countryside. Schurzen plates would had lasted on place maybe 1 day on typical terrain.

[@werre2]

There's one in Parola museum in Finland. We had some StuGs.

[@bunyip7343]

Excellent. I recently found these Tank Chats. A great way to pass some time during the Covid19 pandemic. I look forward to a time in the near future to visit the museum in person. Thankyou David and team from not so sunny Sweden!

[@Sideshowbobx]

When history is told by the professionals and not the propagandist [History Ch.]- The Tank Museum in action!

[@harrisonrawlinson5650]

You’re producing videos as fast as I can watch them, thank-you for this

[@OIFIIIOIF-VET]

Love your stuff. We have a world famous WWII Museum in this tiny (800) people town of mine. We've been trying to get a proper WWII tank for years.

[@roybennett9284]

In my state of NSW, Australia. We maybe out of lockdown, upon the 11th. It's stuff like this and many others like forgotten weapons,and histories, which have kept me buyont and not losing my mind.

[@launch4]

Another couple things about the StuG. It's a damn fine looking machine with it's big slabs of rolled steel at a modest angle. It's smol and cute and makes me wanna take it home with me. It combines high quality with simplicity, the way an old school tank should be. And somehow despite having the engine in back-transmission in front setup it still managed to keep a low silhouette.

[@Trab8900]

I went to Bovington when i was about 10, I'm now 30 and this has become my bedtime story, a tank chat. Great videos keep em coming :)

[@Ishlacorrin]

Tiger I: This is a weapon of Terror, it is designed to demoralise the enemy. Stug III: This is a weapon of War, it's designed to KILL the enemy.

[@builder396]

Nice Stargate quote there.

[@kansascityshuffle8526]

Darth Kennedy not nearly as lethal as the humble stug

[@kansascityshuffle8526]

Darth Kennedy I’ll go with results and the stug outperformed the big cats kill count for by a significant margin

[@redheads604]

indeed

[@kansascityshuffle8526]

Darth Kennedy damn right there was more of them dummy. That because they were a PROVEN commodity more reliable less men to operate. Unlike your ‘precious’ cats. They as the video said remained effective and deadly right to the end of the war. The tigers and panthers along with their TD contemporaries were meant to take over the battlefield and simply couldn’t. But you keep flinging the insults that’s about all you can do.

[@SirGiulio90]

Informative and on point as always ! Great to see the StuG on the screen

[@benferrari4147]

this man has a gift when it comes to talking about these things. i've met him once in 2017 when i was in bovi doing my challenger 2 drivers course.

[@kondensat1285]

OH JA....i realy love these Tank Chats. this whole channel actually. The Tank Museum is maybe the reason to go and visit GB. THANK YOU VERY MUCH best regards from Germany and please just keep doing what u all do so damn good at The Tank Museum "!!!!!"

[@arn_ice]

I found the history of the Germans' quest for THE tank killer but it was there in service throughout the war (WITH the infantry) very interesting.

[@mrlodwick]

Love this place, been so many times in my life - Thank you.

[@petrolhead1977]

Have you noticed that dear Mr Willey talks about history in the present tense? You won't be able to un-notice now! A subtle but effective way of making the subject matter more important to the listener. I love these videos, keep up the good work.

[@JohnyG29]

Orange trousers, dark blue jacket and beige cardigan. You can't teach style like that. 👌

[@WozWozEre]

Brown trousers mate

[@JohnyG29]

@@WozWozEre Definitely more of a burnt orange (to my eyes anyway).

[@ianbrown9108]

Ah,the Michael Portillo look.😁

[@Hillcapper1]

I could never pull that off but I’m not British either

[@hattyfarbuckle]

@@Hillcapper1 As a Brit I think the Italians are best at the British country look..

[@christaylor6017]

Thank you David for keeping us entertained when we are all stuck indoors. Stay safe.

[@nauticalvideos2506]

Another great tank chat. Thank you for making this awesome content in these difficult times.

[@fherot8200]

I love the StuG, Hetzer and Jagdpanzer IV. Amazing innovation.

[@Farandyl]

"Ausf" is a short Version of "Ausfuehrung", meaning "Version". Keep up the good work!

[@joshb7300]

The Swiss still use these. I was staying in a tiny Swiss village when on Sunday morning I was woken up by one of these rumbling past accompanied by a section of Citizen Panzer Grenadiers from the village, strewn with infantry weapons.

[@martinhogg5337]

Fantastic chat. Well done! Keeping us entertained and educated during lockdown. Much appreciated!

[@tylerrichards6456]

You guys make some incredible videos. Love how knowledgeable you are- thanks so much for sharing!

[@rhysmurray4232]

Can listen to this guy for hours ramble on about tanks, great work!

[@imrekalman9044]

He could talk about the mating habits of snails, and it would be just as fascinating and educational. 😁

[@HeyGuy4321]

​@@imrekalman9044i love mating. Also snails. So yes

[@ButchE30M3S14]

The Tigers and Panthers where more an intimidating weapon, and they did its job! But at the end the Stug was the backbone of German army back then.

[@StephenYuan]

I have to wonder how useful a breakthrough tank really is when the German army was on the defensive 100 percent of the time after Kursk.

[@thethirdman225]

@@StephenYuan It would still have been an excellent ambush weapon.

[@huwtindall7096]

Outstanding as always. So well researched, presented and edited.

[@msgretrogamer]

Excellent. This is definitely one of the better tank chats, I've enjoyed this one a lot.

[@_malprivate2543]

Wonderful video. The StuG is one of my favourite WW2 armoured vehicles. Also very glad to see you chose a Finnish Sturmi for this video.

[@stevecampo4901]

You produce a first rate informational history piece. I watch your presentations every time I’m able. Thank you for carrying on during these difficult times.

[@goshnodo]

David Fletcher is fantastic as you all can I'm sure agree however I believe David Willey is a superior presenter and I really enjoy his tank chats.

[@poulon]

Excellent documentary, very informative and the delivery was spot on! Highly impressed. Thanks very much.

[@bengunderman5382]

"Can be much more massed produced, in the German sense." LOL

[@benaguilar1787]

For reference, the US made 49k M4 Sherman tanks during WWII. For Germany to have a bit over 20% of those numbers with this one tank is quite impressive.

[@Szalami]

It's 10k+ production number is even more impressive if you think about how bad the German situation for raw materials and supplies were during most of WW2 and that while cranking out 11k StuGs and StuHs, they also made 8k Panzer IVs, 6k Panthers, nealy 6k Panzer IIIs, ect.. For a power in such an economically terrible postition, even considering the materials wasted on Ferdinands and King Tigers and Jagdtigers... still impressive.

[@CS-zn6pp]

One thing that always gives me a chuckle is that the Soviets lost more tanks in each of the years 41, 42 & 43 than the German tank product in the whole war... Another thing that made me chuckle was dispite telling us repeatedly that the stuG was not a tank, by the end of the video he is also referring to it as a tank. 😁

[@Cancun771]

@@CS-zn6pp Well, it's appropriate in a more colloquial situation, once the concept is understood. Even in the German military, in the standardized TC commands to the driver, it's always called Panzer if it is any sort of tracked vehicle. IFV, SPG, doesn't matter. "Panzer - Marsch Marsch!" www.virtuelle-panzergrenadierbrigade37.de/index.php/de/2-uncategorised/42-handout-fuer-leopard-2

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@CS-zn6pp Cause the Stug was in the role, that former tank types fulfilled. In the last year of the war, the Stugs III and IV, were the backbone of the german amored forces. And about the soviet casualities... If the enemy has the better crews, communication, better guns and optics and more quality in general, you have to built much more tanks, which get much more killed. How did you think, the Bolshevics, suffered 17 million casualties? From throwing snowballs...?

[@avidficreader5040]

I didn't choose the StuG life...

[@thingsido5571]

The stug life chose me

[@HerrGausF]

....I was drafted by the Wehrmacht.

[@evan8654]

@@HerrGausF L0L

[@adamcarreras-neal4697]

Stu G is a very good guitarist, check out Delirious

[@Cliperclaper]

Living in a StuGsta’s paradise

[@guenthpw]

What a delightfully competent, clearly well-researched presentation. And, I can't believe it is free from the usual wartime hate propaganda and polemics. Thanks, David Willey, for a first-class lecture.

[@ritchie799]

A brilliant history of a fine and very effective vehicle. Good mention of the production difficulties and variations to type/models. Thank you David.

[@rayw3332]

I would have liked to hear more technical factors like the elevation and traverse of the gun, targeting problems, hull down positioning, "shoot and scoot," etc. And something about the StuH42.

[@Panzermeister36]

He talked about the Sturmhaubitze

[@deonmurphy6383]

For that find the Chieftain’s discussion if he has done one.

[@89DerChristian]

These Chats are mostly about the history, not the technical details. I am sure the other information is out there

[@johndowe7003]

These guns were pretty much used as artillery , meat in the front and the stugs in the rear a few hundred meter or so (on a good day) not too complicated

[@Dockhead]

@Mactrip100 probably refering because it never had a turret case so in essence the tank itself moved more so than the traverse ability of the fixed gun.

[@brucer81]

Did he say 3000 liters of fuel? That's 792 gallons! Maybe 300. Another great tank chats video. Always educational and entertaining.

[@Modellbyggaren]

Yes, he added a zero. Fuel capacity was just over 300 liters.

[@diggerpy]

thats 8 gallons! @@Modellbyggaren

[@davidgoodnow269]

​@@diggerpyNo, liters are 1.06 quarts, 4 quarts to the gallon, so 300 liters is about 88 gallons! (Did you make a joke, by cutting off the second 8, about adding a 0 to 300? I just realized I might be correcting something meant to be funny . . . . )

[@andrewsteele7663]

Thanks David, brilliant chat, I am a huge fan of the StuG and have thought that we need something like this in our military today, cheer's

[@TheReforger]

Great clip as always, very informative. I could watch Mr. Willey or Mr. Fletcher talking about the paint dry on the wall and not be bored.

[@conan5300]

Getting though lockdown one tank chat at a time, I'll have to go down to the museum again soon I'm so lucky I live close ♥️ 🇬🇧

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

I'm lucky too, cause I live near the Sinsheim/ Speyer technic museum. There is siting a Stug 42, Hummel and Wespe, Pz III N, Pz IV G, Panther and Jagdpanther and a lot of Allied and Soviet stuff as well. A great number of famous planes and of course a Stug III G...

[@jacobosburne2565]

20:48 If you look close enough there's a scary face that's been painted on the Pighead manlet; I'll say the crew who painted it understands the Stug Life, now hit it there Hans.

[@adrianrosenlund-hudson8789]

Lovely example outside the museum in Hamina, Finland. Got one at the museum in Parola, Finland too. That museum is well worth a visit

[@blackterminal]

Thank you for making and sharing this video. Watched from New Zealand in Corona lock down.

[@vtr0104]

I guess you could say, when the restoration was completed on this tank, it was pretty much.... ....Finnished :)

[@richardm3023]

The China virus is funnier than you.

[@elbucho8867]

Leave now

[@RU-zm7wj]

Read More Read More.

[@K0ukku]

Finland used the StuG III in 1944 quite a lot, and it was very effective. You can still see a WW2 Stug III very next to the Finnish highway in Parola next to the contemporary service tank, the Leopard 2A4. We salute the tanks everytime we drive past them.

[@williedesmond8201]

The finns used them because they are better for defense rather than offensive, the germans should have stuck with panzer vl Panthers and stugs from 43 they would of put up a better defense and give them more time to build v2s and jets to win ,but it was probably to late by then

[@williedesmond8201]

@@IvorMektin1701 the v1 could be shot from the sky or a plane could touch it and it would go nowhere ,v2s hit when they went of and did do damage and got kills and they were getting better all the time ,one was being made for usa ,don't try tell me what I know the v1s were getting shot from the sky , v2s could not be stopped when they were sent stop trying to each history to someone that does there research on the topic

[@williedesmond8201]

@@IvorMektin1701 cost effective but ineffective some after read about them or watch some thing more ,its no good if cheap if they stopped getting through which they didn't England learned to deal with them lol

[@IvorMektin1701]

@@williedesmond8201 The V2 cost ten times as much as a V1 and delivered the same warhead.

[@williedesmond8201]

@@IvorMektin1701 yea and the v2 always got through the v2 didn't it was shot from the sky you said it was more effective it was not

[@brianblessing8494]

Due to the pandemic I didn't get a chance to travel to the Bovington tank museum this is another great way to see the vehicles with a very good description and presentation by Mr Willey.

[@MrMarinus18]

The German turretless tanks are always easy to remember as they almost always have the stats of the gun tank one generation up. So the Stug III has the stats of the Panzer IV, the Stug IV has the stats of the Panzer V and so on.

[@EpleGoesInsane]

Ooh I was wondering when we were getting a Stug video! Wonder what will be coming up on tankchat 100

[@pelao824]

As soon as i saw the rounded front of the STUG I knew it was Finnish. The finns poured concrete on those guys.

[@yagdtigercommander]

Yah neat to know i was wondering why it looked so odd for typical stug design.

[@pelao824]

@@yagdtigercommander Yeah, then they come little secondary details, like the MG shield on top; that's made out of a piece of the hull of a soviet BT-7, or the reinforcement bars above the roadwheels.

[@CT9905.]

The StuG III and IV were always my favorite track vehicles.

[@miscellaneousetc.4280]

Such a magnificent presenter. Thank you so much for these. Love it

[@andynixon2820]

This particular vehicle is also half timbered - essentially it's a Morris minor estate car with attitude .

[@Muck006]

It doesnt even have any problems with a parking space ...

[@burlatsdemontaigne6147]

The Stug Traveller?

[@gurkslunga]

I believe that Stug is borrowed from the finnish tank museum in Parola. The marking to the left of the Saukopf gun mantlet is definitely finnish. media2.riemurasia.net/albumit/mmedia/tl/9oz/dyx9/261218/1821051933.jpg www.andreaslarka.net/sturmi.html

[@darrenhillman8396]

😂

[@penponds]

A reason those mid-century British wood embellished cars were called “shooting-breaks”...

[@BorisZech]

5:35 Gewehr 43 in action

[@roelhodzelmans1004]

Thx sir Willey, I love the chat and you have a very pleasant voice. Please be well!

[@clydestoutamire2273]

Extremely interesting and informative. Keep ‘em coming.

[@Kumimono]

Hey, it's Maija. :)

[@Rvoid]

Maija who?

[@Kumimono]

@@Rvoid Maija haa... A Finnish Stug III that, named by her crew.

[@Rvoid]

@@Kumimono Dangit it should have been Maija hee first... Thanks for the info, anyway.

[@Kumimono]

@@Rvoid Hoo, forgot the sequence. :p

[@Kamina1703]

How about some love for the STuG-III's Big Brother, The STuG-IV?

[@Panzermeister36]

Panzer III and IV hulls are essentially the same size though. The major difference is the suspension which allowed for more space inside the IV and thus a larger turret and gun.

[@ComissarZhukov]

@@Panzermeister36 Not at all. Pamzer IV is quite bigger than Pz.III.

[@MrDgwphotos]

Well, they don't have one in their collection, they generally only cover vehicles that they either have in their collection, or have on loan (like the IS-3) from other musuems.

[@garfield1415]

Hi David, thank you for such high-quality discussion about the StuG III, stay safe my friend i really look forward to the next video(s) releases!

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

Definitely on the short list for best armored vehicle of WWII. Inexpensive, low profile, good armor, torsion bar suspension, great gun, good optics, good radio, good off road performance. One improvement would be wider tracks for Winter and mud. And like pretty much all German equipment, it could use some simplifications (see PanzerJager 38(t)) for faster production. One note. Logs and/or concrete are a mixed blessing. It would help with HE rounds, but not so much with AP or HEAP rounds. It may be detrimental, depending on exact angle, range, etc.

[@hgm8337]

Seems that the Corporal knew more about tank tactics than many give him credit for

[@logoseven3365]

The German production mentality is shown in the VW Beetle. If you look at a production run for a particular year, the beginning of the year is rarely identical to the end of the year. 1967 is a particularly diverse year with early, mid, and late year variations.

[@davidgoodnow269]

German car manufacturing . . . I remember a BMW 325i, very popular, with three completely incompatible fuel pumps in three different locations in a single year. Mixed production and no way of knowing which you needed to acquire to perform a repair, until you strip out the highly inaccessible fuel system from engine to the fuel tank itself!

[@YksiSuomalainen]

The StuG III was simply a fantastic tank destroyer/mobile support gun.

[@mikewysko2268]

Thank you Sir for the history lesson.

[@prof_kaos9341]

Michael Wittman got most of his tank kills in a STuG. Though I think he also said he thought getting ATGs was more important.

[@herosstratos]

Prof_Kaos He said, that a PAK is worth five tanks.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Really? According to wiki he spent some of his early time in MkIII as well as Stug and at about a year in the Tiger. A tiger in target-rich environment should easily outscore a Stug.

[@DeosPraetorian]

Whitman wasn't even the best German tank ace

[@dakkahead517]

@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 and yet the STUGs had more kills than the Tiger 2s ever produced. There are plenty of other factors to consider though.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

@@dakkahead517 There were almost 10x the number of stugs for one thing, but overall stats don't apply here for we are talking about one man. Wittmann spent about 6 months in a stugIII, another 6 in a MkIII, and over a year in a Tiger1. Most of his kills were in the Tiger, with 24 kills in one day on the Ostfront and 16 on another. And of course later his famous day at Villers Boucage, where he got 13 tanks and many other vehicles in a matter of minutes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6XTiYCMfrJsgMk

[@jon782]

Hitler probably took great interest because he was an infantryman, and he knew from experience how useful it would have been to have that in different situations he'd experienced.

[@Neithan02]

Trench warfare that he ecperienced..... vs what the army did

[@SerialChiller1000]

Very possibly.

[@chrishilton3626]

One of my favourite tanks thanks Fletcher and team 😊😎

[@nzmonsterman]

Such a great non bias informative video. Fantastic presentation. Great work. 👍

[@cleanerben9636]

Bob Semple for the 100th tank chat.

[@cgaccount3669]

I believe they just do tanks in their collection. Did any of the BS tanks survive?

[@cleanerben9636]

@@cgaccount3669 not that I know of. I think they were scrapped. They were just too good so the Kiwis needed to deny anyone else getting a look at its superior design.

[@anthonyhayes1267]

@@cleanerben9636 they only didn't adopt them, because they didn't want to insult God by being so powerful

[@ataxpayer723]

@@cgaccount3669 The Bob Semple tank was replaced by NZLAVs. Most of them are in storage, as the NZ Govt cannot afford to pay for the fuel to run them, even with a FlyBuys card. See: www.flybuys.co.nz/

[@at6686]

10,000 stug 3s built vs 50,000 Sherman’s and 80,000 t-34s. Tough odds.

[@mikebellis5713]

And add British tanks

[@marks1638]

One of my old neighbors in Pittsburgh was always telling us local kid's stories about his time working in a tank factory in the Soviet Union during the war. Before he came to the US in the late 40's, he had been a teenager working in his father's fields in Lithuania before the war. He was forced along with his family to flee from the invading Germans (the Soviets actually forced them to flee by burning down their farm and fields). The whole family was drafted to work in a tank factory far from home (from his description if was probably the big tank factory at Nizhny Tagil, Russia). He (and his family) worked there from late 1941 to the end of the war with him starting as a parts assembler and finishing up as a mechanic. His father started as an assembler but was crippled by a tank tread (weighs hundreds of pounds) falling on him and ended up as a gate guard. Other members of his family were assemblers, his sisters were cooks, his only brother was a welder (drafted into the Army after pissing off a floor foreman, later dying on a battlefield). His mother started working on a cleaning crew and eventually ended up running cleaning crews. He said that the factory was a massive noisy, busy, and dangerous place to work. At least a dozen workers a week were hurt or killed in accidents or being negligent (usually someone was drunk). They built T-34's and some models of other tanks/armored vehicles (he mainly remembers the T-34's). He got to operate those models when he was later promoted to mechanic. He learned to drive and even test fire the guns on the T-34 models. He said the first T-34's from the factory in late 1941 were being rushed out the door onto rail cars, unpainted and without some secondary parts like covers, seals, seats, etc. Later models by 1943 were being built (with newer T-34/85 models) with better designs (but not always much better construction as many workers were constantly being castigated for drinking on the job and doing sloppy work.). Plus, a lot of the workers didn't speak Russian (a mix of about 20 or so different cultures and languages from Uzbekistan to Lithuanian), so there a language barrier. He said the place sounded a badly tuned orchestra with different languages, with everything from work direction and orders to cussing and cursing in those languages (he learned how to cuss in at least a dozen languages, but learned to speak, read, and write Russian). Then the constant stream of changes in designs, orders and contradictory orders, constant visits by Party officials trying to push production, NKVD officers (constantly on the lookout for saboteurs, which he said they didn't have to worry about as the factory managers (and the Party) seemed to be doing a good job of self-sabotaging themselves.). He always wondered how they managed to get anything done in that place. They (the workers) were constantly shorted on food rations, pay, and cigarettes (some of it was theft by managers and party officials and some wartime shortages). Thankfully, they were fed in the factory cafeteria (where his sisters worked as cooks). The only thing they were never short of was vodka. Between the state issued vodka, stills going in people backyards or basements, and whatever people could steal from the alcohol stores (used in manufacturing, medical, and vehicle operations) getting drunk was the one thing everyone did exceedingly well. At the end of the war, he and his family made their way back to Lithuania but couldn't get their farm back as it was now a Soviet airbase. They got no compensation and were eventually able to get out of the USSR with help of friends. They moved to the US (political refugees) and settled in Pittsburgh getting jobs in the mills (and local factories) using their experience in the Russian tank factory. His mom ran a local bakery (made really good pastries and breads) with one of my relatives. His dad didn't live long afterwards, but his sisters did well and married local guys. He passed away in the mid 80's from a heart attack. I enjoyed his stories and missed his mom's Lithuanian pastries (she passed away several years after him.)

[@stephenbrand5661]

His shadow moving back and forth on the gun is strangely mesmerizing