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Sturmgeschütz IV, with spaced armor
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"They were low slung, maybe half the height of a Sherman because they had no turret, you see.  The gun stuck right out of the front and they aimed the whole vehicle at you.  If they had any cover at all, they were damned hard to hit.  If you could catch one out in the open and get a side shot at it, then you were in luck."

Sgt. Stan Kowalski, M-4 gunner, Third Armored Division.
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"These were some of the best we had.  Very good assault vehicle and at first we had plenty of them.  We didn't have anything like what the Amerikaners had in the line of maintenance battalions.  Every teenager in Amerika  owns a car and knows how to fix it!  This is not true in Germany. When our tanks broke down, it was a long wait 
for repairs!"

Panzer Schütze Hermann Muenster, Panzer Lehr Division.
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