{"id":66712,"date":"2023-06-23T16:08:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=66712"},"modified":"2023-06-23T16:08:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T21:08:34","slug":"know-your-ww2-weapons-the-german-panzerfaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/23\/know-your-ww2-weapons-the-german-panzerfaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your WW2 Weapons: The German Panzerfaust"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Panzerfaust \u2014 The Story of Germany’s “Tank Fist”<\/a><\/h1>\n

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Panzerfaust literally translates to \u201ctank fist,\u201d and it was one of several desperation weapons fielded by the Germans in the closing months of World War II to blunt the Soviet juggernaut and the increasing threats on the Western Front. First developed in 1942, as Germany\u2019s fortunes waned, the combination of low cost and ease of training made the Panzerfaust a mainstay of the final defense of the Reich in 1943 and beyond. In Normandy, the Panzerfaust accounted for 6% of the Allied tanks knocked out in combat. By war\u2019s end, when the battlefield was dense with poorly trained Volkssturm units, that number climbed to 34%.<\/h2>\n

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*See also the German Panzerschreck<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Panzerfaust \u2014 The Story of Germany’s “Tank Fist”   Panzerfaust literally translates to \u201ctank fist,\u201d and it was one of several desperation weapons fielded by the Germans in the closing months of World War II to blunt the Soviet juggernaut and the increasing threats on the Western Front. First developed in 1942, as Germany\u2019s fortunes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6199,475,5064,478,479,6135,1286,1895,1896,65,6166,1898,7357,1899,1901],"tags":[1534,8915,8798,8160,763,16054,16055,15765,8123,3200],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66712"}],"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=66712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66714,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66712\/revisions\/66714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}