German Bergepanzer III Recovery Vehicle IBG-72059

Description

The operational history of the Panzer III during World War II was very much marked by the technical advance that, especially in the East, the armored units underwent as the conflict progressed.
The increase in armor, and therefore weight, added to the need to have longer and larger caliber guns, forced the Panzer III to change from being the spearhead of the Panzer divisions, to an infantry support tank, also a platform for anti-tank or artillery vehicles and finally, by 1944, it was transformed, those that still survived, into crane tanks (BergePanzer) for the recovery of vehicles from the battlefield.