7,5 cm PaK 40 auf Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) "Marder III Ausf.H"

     
Název:
Name:
Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H) Marder III Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H) Marder III
Originální název:
Original Name:
Panzerjäger 38 (t) mit 7,5 cm Pak 40/3 Ausf. H (Sd.Kfz.138) Marder III
Výrobce:
Producer:
DD.11.1942-DD.05.1943 Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik AG, Praha /
DD.11.1942-DD.09.1943 Autozbrojovka č.1 (?), Přelouč /
Období výroby:
Production Period:
DD.11.1942-DD.05.1943
Vyrobeno kusů:
Number of Produced:
1109
Prototyp vyroben:
Prototype Built:
30.06.1942
Osádka:
Crew:
3
Technické údaje:
Technical Data:
 
Bojová hmotnost:
Combat Weight:
10800 kg 23810 lb
Celková délka:
Overall Length:
5770 mm 18 ft 11 ⅛ in
Celková šířka:
Overall Width:
2160 mm 7 ft 1 in
Celková výška:
Overall Height:
2510 mm 8 ft 2 ¾ in
Světlá výška:
Ground Clearance:
? mm ?
Pancéřování:
Armour:
8-50 mm 8-50 mm
Pohon:
Propulsion:
 
Typ:
Type:
Praga AC (vodou chladený zážihový 6-valec objemu 7.750 cm3) Praga AC (6 cyl., gasoline, water cooled, 7.750 ccm)
Výkon:
Power:
110,3 kW při 2600 ot/min 147.9 bhp at 2600 rpm
Převodové ústrojí:
Transmission:
Praga-Wilson (5+R) Praga-Wilson (5+R)
Výkony:
Performance:
 
Rychlost na silnici:
Road Speed:
47 km/h 29 mph
Rychlost v terénu:
Cross-country Speed:
? km/h ? mph
Jízdní dosah po silnici:
Cruising Range on Road:
240 km 149 mi
Jízdní dosah v terénu:
Cross-country Cruising Range:
? km ? mi
Překonávání překážek:
Obstacles Crossing:
 
Svah:
Gradient:
? ° ? %
Boční náklon:
Side Slope:
? ° ? %
Překročivost:
Trench Crossing:
2,1 m 83 in
Výstupnost:
Vertical Obstacle:
0,8 m 31 in
Brodivost:
Fording Depth:
0,9 m 35 in
Výzbroj:
Armament:
 
Hlavní:
Main:
7,5 cm PaK 40/3 L/46 (38 nábojov) 7,5 cm PaK 40/3 L/46 (38 rounds)
Vedlejší:
Secondary:
1x guľomet MG 37(t) (600 nábojov)
1x samopal MP 38/MP 40 (192 nábojov)
1x machine gun MG 37(t) (600 rounds)
1x submachine gun MP 38/MP 40 (192 rounds)
Uživatelské státy:
User States:




Poznámka:
Note:
Výrobné čísla:
1751-1766, 1768-1949, 1968, 1769, 2016-2075, 2101-2600 (15 vozidiel z tejto série)
Serial numbers:
1751-1766, 1768-1949, 1968, 1769, 2016-2075, 2101-2600 (15 vehicles from this serie)
Zdroje:
Sources:
Vladimír Francev, Charles K.Kliment- Marder III & Grille, vydavateľstvo MBI, rok vydania 1999, ISBN: 80-902238-5-0
Thomas L. Jenty, Hilary Louise Doyle - Panzer Tracts No. 7-2, Panzerjaeger (7,62 cm F.K.(r) auf gp.Sfl. to Marder 38T) development and employment from 1941 to 1943, rok vydania 2005, ISBN: 0-9744862-9-9
Vladimír Francev - LT vz.38 Tank, který se povedl - rodinný portrét, vydavateľstvo Svět křídel, Cheb, rok vydania 2019, ISBN: 978-80-7573-057-2

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7,5 cm PaK 40 auf Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) Marder III Ausf.H - Zničený slovenský Marder. V pozadí obec Košúty (Martin).

Zničený slovenský Marder. V pozadí obec Košúty (Martin).
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7,5 cm PaK 40 auf Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) Marder III Ausf.H -


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Fighter machines Marder III Ausf. H (Sd. Kfz. 138) is currently on okupovanom the territory of the USSR, 21.06.1943. Author unknown

German federal archive
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7,5 cm PaK 40 auf Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) Marder III Ausf.H - Marder III Ausf. H (Sd. Kfz. 138)

Marder III Ausf. H (Sd. Kfz. 138)

Author Website : http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de

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Sd. Kfz. 138 Marder III in the army of the first Slovak Republic


In the summer of 1944 the Slovak army took over 18 pieces of the improvised tank destroyer Marder III. The vehicles probably received registration numbers: V-3107 to V-3124. During the Slovak National Uprising at least two units participated in the fighting in the Turiec area and another two units in eastern Slovakia.


Camouflage
Original paint was a monochrome shade of German sand yellow. It is not believed that the original paint has been repainted. The vehicles were reportedly marked with a coat of arms with three vertical stripes in the following colours: white, blue and red.


Note
One of the sources below became the property of the SNP Museum, which refused to release it in print, due to alleged historical errors.


Source
Ivan Bajtoš (†): Tanks and tankers in the SNP, manuscript, Košice asi 1980
Ivan Bajtoš (†): História slovenského pluku útočnej vozby 1939-1944, manuscript, Košice 1987
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Sd. Kfz. 138 Marder III (7.5 cm KPÚV belt.) in the Slovak Army (1939-1945)
Considerations to strengthen the anti-tank defence of Slovak Army units fell into the earlier period. In mid-1943, the conversion of light tanks LT vz.38 to tank fighters was considered, but remained only a consideration. It would probably have been beyond the capabilities of the army. The Slovak Army showed interest in German Marder tank fighters in early 1944, when it placed an order for 26 units. Later, this number was increased to 35 units. However, the German military authorities ordered only 18 fighters. The vehicles arrived from a branch of the Army Tank Armory (Heeres-Panzer-Unterzeugamt) in Olomouc on 19 May 1944. The Slovak designation was 7.5 cm KPÚV on belts (abbreviated 7.5 cm KPÚV belt.). It is generally given as the delivery version of the Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H). According to the source below, vehicles of this type were given the military designations V-3.111 to V-3.128. According to this list, it is possible to identify which fighters were developed from the platforms of remanufactured tanks Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) and which were developed as new builds of the Sd.Kfz. 138 (Ausf. H).
The original intention was to arm the entire II Battalion of the KPUV, but due to the lack of tank fighters (the Slovak Army's requirement was to supply 35 fighters), only the 4th Company and the 5th Company (two platoons of three fighters each, plus one fighter for the company commander) were armed with this type of fighter. The incomplete battalion became in 6/1944 part of a newly formed PÚV field unit stationed in eastern Slovakia. The commander of the PÚV mjr.útv. Jozef Dobrotka requested a later field deployment of the unit due to the replenishment of material and personnel. At the same time, training of self-propelled gun crews was underway. The unit was sent to eastern Slovakia on 4.8.1944. At that time, a pair of tank fighters were part of the staff company of the PÚV. The two companies of the KPÚV battalion were assigned to the 1st and 2nd Divisions. The 4th Company was assigned to defend the Dukla Pass area and to support units of the 3rd Infantry Regiment on 10.8.1944. The 5th Company of the KPÚV Battalion was located in Ladomir.
At that time, the uprising was about to begin, which broke out on 29 August 1944. On 31 August 1944, the disarmament of the KPÚV field units by German troops began. The 5th Company was surrounded and disarmed in the afternoon of 31.8.1944. The 4th KPUV Company stationed in Vyšný Komárnik suffered the same fate. The headquarters company with a pair of tank fighters managed to escape to the partisans and immediately joined the fighting. In order to prevent the Slovak troops from disarming, the fighters took part in an attack from Hermanovce to Prešov. During heavy fighting with a German anti-tank battery, one fighter was destroyed. The uncoordinated and chaotic attack foundered and the unit withdrew back to Hermanovce. By the evening of September 1, 1944, the unit had become a military-partisan unit Bohdan Khmelnitsky (commanded by Maj. Dobrotka).
The fighter under the command of Asst. Julius Rajták took part in the defence of the Hermanovska valley and on 4 September 1944 participated in a successful counter-attack against the units of Kampfgruppe Rintelen. On the next day indirect fire significantly helped in repelling German attacks. The decisive German attack scheduled for 7.9.1944, during the retreat into the Hermanovska valley, the vehicle commander of the deputy was killed. Rajták and the vehicle, despite efforts to save it, fell into German hands.
At the beginning of the uprising, 14 vehicles were thus seized by the Germans during the disarmament of Slovak units, and a pair of fighters were destroyed in the fighting.
The remaining pair of fighters 7.5 cm KPUV belt. were in the PÚV replacement battalion in Turčianske Sväté Martin at the beginning of the Uprising, where they formed an assistance platoon with a pair of towed 7.5 cm KPÚV anti-tank guns (7.5 cm PaK 40). Days before the outbreak of the Uprising, they participated in "promotional" actions against the partisans, as the mood in the unit was anti-German. At that time, anti-tank gun units were being formed from soldiers and volunteer reservists. A company of 7.5 cm KPUV was formed, where a pair of 7.5 cm KPUV belt. fighters formed a platoon under the command of Lt. Pavel Buocik.
29.8.1944 at 4.00 a.m. was sent a platoon of Lt. Stefan Bodnar (4x LT vz.38, 1x 7.5 cm KPÚV belt.) to occupy the preparatory positions on Dubna Skala. In the afternoon, the platoon was ordered to move to Zilina to support the insurgents. The next day, a tank fighter took part in an attack on the Žilina pulp mill, where German soldiers were barricaded. In the afternoon, the insurgents withdrew from Zilina as the first German troops, supported by tanks and anti-tank guns, arrived in the town. The vehicles withdrew to the Strečianska Gorge. K 7,5 cm KPÚV belt. was joined by a second fighter and they formed an advance of the second defensive zone of the section Domašín - railway double tunnel - Janosikovo. The commanders of the vehicles were slob.asp. Matej Buc and slob.asp. Július Vojenčiak. One self-propelled gun took part in the successful defence of the German attempted breakthrough at Domašín. Subsequently, due to the unsustainability of the section, it covered the retreat of the troops from Domašín, during which a vehicle under the command of slob.asp. M. Buc destroyed a German tank and forced the other to retreat. On the night of 31.81944 to 1.9.1944, one fighter destroyed a pair of German 7.5 cm PaK 40 guns. The crew of the 7.5 cm KPUV belt. Sv.asp. M. Buca destroyed another German tank in the defense on 1 September 1944, and later that day both fighters participated in stopping the German attack and stabilizing the insurgent defenses.
On 3.9.1944, the fighter of Mlc. Mateja Buca, together with a foursome of tanks LT vz.35, was surprised by a pair of German tanks in their position near Dzuranovsky Creek towards Strečnianska Gorge. The German attack decimated the unit. Only the tank fighter was saved, the tanks were destroyed. Slob.asp. Buc fell. The vehicle was repaired and its superstructure reinforced with armour from a cancelled PA vz.30 armoured car. The command of the vehicle was entrusted to Capt. Ján Kukliš.
On September 4, 1944, a second fighter under the command of slob.asp. Julius Vojenčák was sent to counterattack in the direction of Horné Vrútky. He then retreated to an eastern position.
On September 8, 1944, he supported one 7.5 cm KPUV belt. Vitalay Battalion's counterattack, which drove the German troops all the way to Vrútky. A sudden counterattack launched by a German Pz.Kpfw.IV tank also hit a tank fighter under the command of Des.Asp. Julius Vojenciak. The wounded crew abandoned it.
On 9/9/1944, an insurgent counterattack was launched in the direction of Priekop. It involved the last tank fighter, which was destroyed near Koshuty (Priekop and Koshuty are now part of the town of Martin). This day marked the end of a fairly successful combat deployment of the 7.5 cm KPUV belt tank fighter.





Chassis serial number
Version Marder III (or conversion from Pz.Kpfw.38(t))
Note
399
Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t) Ausf.D

443
Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t) Ausf.D

587
Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t) Ausf.E
Pre-team 731.Panzerjäger-Abteilung
828Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t) Ausf.FPre-team 731.Panzerjäger-Abteilung
841
Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t) Ausf.F

924
Pz.Kpfw. 38 (t) Ausf.F

1289Pz.Kpfw.38 Ausf.GPredtým 731.Panzerjäger-Abteilung
1297Pz.Kpfw.38 Ausf.GPredtým 559.Panzerjäger-Abteilung
1305Pz.Kpfw.38 Ausf.GPredtým 731.Panzerjäger-Abteilung
1424
Sd.Kfz.139

1480Pz.Kpfw.38 Ausf.GPredtým 731.Panzerjäger-Abteilung
1498Pz.Kpfw.38 Ausf.GPredtým 559.Panzerjäger-Abteilung
1774
Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H)

1775
Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H)
Panzerjäger-Abteilung 92/20.Panzer-Division
1831
Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H)
Predtým SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 1/1.SS-Panzer-Division LSSAH
1911Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H)Previously Panzerjäger-Abteilung 37/1.Panzer-Division
2017
Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H)
Previously 10.Panzergrenadier-Division.
2121Sd.Kfz.138 (Ausf.H)Previously 10.Panzergrenadier-Division



1)Marian Uhrin - Attack Wagon Regiment 1944, Museum of the Slovak National Uprising, year of publication 2012, ISBN: 978-80-89514-14-4

Vladimir Francev, Charles K.Kliment- Marder III & Grille, MBI publishing house, year of publication 1999, ISBN: 80-902238-5-0
Vladimír Francev - LT vz. 38, the tank that led the way, World of Wings, year of publication 2019, ISBN: 978-80-7573-057-2
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