{"id":34430,"date":"2020-05-11T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=34430"},"modified":"2020-05-11T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:43:25","slug":"know-your-ww2-history-51st-and-52nd-panzer-battalions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/11\/know-your-ww2-history-51st-and-52nd-panzer-battalions\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your WW2 History: 51st and 52nd Panzer Battalions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.com\/2020\/05\/12\/51st-and-52nd-panzer-battalions\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/yjtgyjtgujyuyj_1.jpg?quality=80&amp;strip=info&amp;w=800\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Panthers were supplied to form Panzer Abteilung 51 (Tank Battalion 51) on 9 January, and then Pz.Abt. 52 on 6 February 1943. The first production Panther tanks were plagued with mechanical problems. The engine was dangerously prone to overheating and suffered from connecting rod or bearing failures. Gasoline leaks from the fuel pump or carburetor,\u00a0[\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.com\/2020\/05\/12\/51st-and-52nd-panzer-battalions\/\">51st and 52nd Panzer Battalions \u2014 Weapons and Warfare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panthers were supplied to form Panzer Abteilung 51 (Tank Battalion 51) on 9 January, and then Pz.Abt. 52 on 6 February 1943. The first production Panther tanks were plagued with mechanical problems. The engine was dangerously prone to overheating and suffered from connecting rod or bearing failures. Gasoline leaks from the fuel pump or carburetor,\u00a0[\u2026]&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,6050,5064,478,479,6096,6135,1899,1901],"tags":[8159,8160,8161,7840],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}