StuG 40

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28th Division Troops with Knocked Out German StuG III Ausf G

5th Army Troops and Mules Pass German StuG 40 Assault Gun Castelforte Italy 1944

StuG 40 Ausf G guns with side schurzen 2

A German Sturmgeschütz III Ausf G tank destroyers advances through a village on the Eastern Front

Assault gun StuG 40 ausf F

Assault gun StuG 40 ausf G 1944/45

Assault gun StuG 40 Ausf. G

British soldiers with destroyed StuG 40 in Italy

Canadian Troops Bury Crew of Blasted German StuG III in Italy 1944

Captured StuG 40 Ausf G in Italy

Captured StuG III Ausf G in Italy

concrete armor on American StuG Ausf G

Crew and StuG 40

Crew and StuG 40 Ausf G

Crew and StuG III ausf G with bolted Schurzen

Damaged StuG 40

Destroyed StuG 40 Ausf G

Destroyed by internal explosion StuG III 1944

Destroyed StuG III 1944

German assault gun StuG 40

german assault gun StuG 40

German assault gun StuG 40

German assault gun StuG 40 4

German assault gun StuG 40 Ausf F

German assault gun StuG 40 Ausf F with skirt armour

German assault gun StuG 40 ausf G and crew

German assault gun StuG 40 number 5

German assault guns StuG 40 with skirt armour

german StuG 40 Ausf G in action

German tank destroyer StuG 40

German tank destroyer StuG 40 Ausf F

German tank destroyer StuG 40 Ausf F 2

German tank destroyer StuG 40 Ausf F 3

German tank destroyer StuG 40 Ausf F 5

German tank destroyer StuG 40 Ausf G

GIs Pass German StuG 40 Santa Agata Sicily 1943

knocked out StuG 40

knocked out StuG 40 and GI's

StuG 40 advancing along a dusty road towards the front lines

Late StuG III advancing along a dusty road towards the front lines

Late StuG III winter

Soldat Sturmgechutz eastern front July 1944

Soldier by Wreckage of German StuG 40 ausf G in Noville 1944

StuG 40

StuG 40 and German troops

StuG 40 assault gun

StuG 40 assault gun 15

StuG 40 assault gun with saukopfblende

StuG 40 assault guns

StuG 40 Ausf F

StuG 40 ausf F assault gun

StuG 40 Ausf F assault gun

StuG 40 Ausf F assault guns

StuG 40 Ausf F Eastern front

StuG 40 Ausf F front view

StuG 40 Ausf F guns

StuG 40 ausf F in soviet service

StuG 40 Ausf F number 201

StuG 40 Ausf F number 202

StuG 40 Ausf F rear view

StuG 40 Ausf F Sd.Kfz . 142 1 of StuG Lehr Brigade 920 Poland 1944

StuG 40 Ausf F Sturmgeschutz Langrohr Eastern front

StuG 40 Ausf F Sturmgeschutz Langrohr Eastern front 2

StuG 40 ausf F winter

StuG 40 Ausf F winter camo

StuG 40 Ausf F with additional armor plating bolted on to the bow

StuG 40 ausf F with schurzen

StuG 40 Ausf F with spaced armour plates

StuG 40 Ausf F with zimmerit

StuG 40 Ausf G

StuG 40 Ausf G 1944

StuG 40 Ausf G 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf

StuG 40 Ausf G 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf 2

StuG 40 Ausf G 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf crew

StuG 40 Ausf G 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf named Charkow

StuG 40 Ausf G and crews

StuG 40 Ausf G April 1943

StuG 40 Ausf G assault gun

StuG 40 Ausf G assault gun 11

StuG 40 Ausf G assault guns 18

StuG 40 Ausf G ceremony

StuG 40 Ausf G destroyed in Berlin

StuG 40 Ausf G eastern front

StuG 40 Ausf G Eastern Front South Panzersoldaten and Gebirgsjager

StuG 40 Ausf G front view

StuG 40 Ausf G somewhere in Germany at the end of the war

StuG 40 Ausf G Germany 1945

StuG 40 Ausf G guns with side schurzen

StuG 40 Ausf G Noville, Belgium 1944

StuG 40 Ausf G number 205 with side schurzen

StuG 40 Ausf G number 712

StuG 40 Ausf G of 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf

StuG 40 Ausf G of Panzer Grenadier Regiment Der Fuhrer Charkow 1943

StuG 40 ausf G of Waffen SS

StuG 40 Ausf G on road

German StuG 40 Ausf G with schurzen – side view

StuG 40 Ausf G schurzen 2

StuG 40 Ausf G Sd.Kfz . 142 1 of StuG Lehr Brigade 920

StuG 40 Ausf G tank destroyer

StuG 40 Ausf G winter

StuG 40 ausf G with cast mantlet and full set of sideskirts

StuG 40 ausf G with cast mantlet and full set of Schurzen

StuG 40 Ausf G with ostketten

StuG 40 Ausf G with saukopf Eastern front

StuG 40 Ausf G with saukopfblende

StuG 40 Ausf G with schurzen

StuG 40 ausf G with cast mantlet and full set of Schurzen

StuG 40 ausf G with Schurzen

StuG 40 Ausf G with Schurzen

StuG 40 Ausf G with schurzen 2

StuG 40 Ausf G with schurzen winter camo eastern front

StuG 40 Ausf G with side schurzen

StuG 40 Ausf G with side skirt armor plates rail transport

StuG 40 Ausf G with spaced armour plates

StuG 40 Ausf G with zimmerit

StuG 40 Ausf G with zimmerit and saukopf Eastern front

StuG 40 Ausf G with zimmerit and saukopf Eastern front 2

StuG 40 ausf G with zimmerit and saukopfblende

StuG 40 Ausf G with Zimmeritt

StuG 40 Hungary 1945

StuG 40 in combat

StuG 40 of Stug. Abteilung 280

StuG 40 of the Das Reich

StuG 40 of the Grossdeutschland division

StuG 40 of Waffen SS 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen

StuG 40 rail transport

StuG 40 rail trasnport

StuG 40 Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 911 named RITA

StuG 40 winter 1945

StuG 40 winter camo

StuG 40 winter camo and winterketten

StuG 40 with crew

StuG 40 with Saukopfblende 1944 45 Slovakia

StuG 40 with skirt armour

StuG 40 with Winterketten

StuG 40 with zimmerit

StuG Ausf G from Sturmgeschutz Abteilung 911

StuG Ausf G of 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Gotz von Berlichingen

StuG Ausf G of 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen

StuG III "Ulla"

StuG III and Grenadiere

StuG III assault gun

StuG III assault gun 5

StuG III Ausf F german assault gun

StuG III ausf F number 274

StuG III Ausf F winter camo

StuG III ausf G

StuG III Ausf G assault gun

StuG III Ausf G of Grossdeutschland Division 1944

StuG III Ausf G of Grossdeutschland Division with cast mantlet and full set of Schurzen

StuG III ausf G with bolted Schurzen 2

StuG III in Italy

StuG III italy 2

StuG III Late rail transport

StuG III late version

StuG III number 310

StuG III with Ostketten

Sturmgeschutz 40 ausf F

Sturmgeschutz 40 Ausf G

Sturmgeschutz 40 Stug Ausf G in Finnland

Sturmgeschutz 40 Ausf G in Finnland 221 - winter camo

Sturmgeschutz 40 of the Abteilung 322

Sturmgeschutz 40 of the Abteilung 322 2

Sturmgeschutz Abteilung 226 StuG III winter camo

Sturmgeschutz Ausf F number 274

Sturmgeschutz Ausf G

Sturmgeschutz Ausf G of StuG Abteilung 280

Sturmgeschutz Ausf G of StuG Abteilung 280 2

Sturmgeschutz III 40

Sturmgeschutz III Ausf F assault gun in parade

Sturmgeschütz III Ausf F of Hermann Goering Division

Sturmgeschutz III Ausf G early

Sturmgeschutz III G Sdkfz 142

Sturmgeschutz III late version

Sturmgeschutz III of Abteilung 203

Sturmgeschutz III of Abteilung 322

Sturmgeschutz III of Abteilung 322 in winter

Sturmgeschutz III of Abteilung 322 rail transport

Sturmgeschutz III of StuG Abteilung 322

Sturmgeschutz III with Schurzen from Abteilung 322

Sturmgeschutz III with zimmerit

Sturmgeschütz StuG 40

Sturmgeschutz StuG 40 Ausf F Woronesch Eastern Front

Sturmgeschutz StuG 40 ausf G

Sturmgeschutz StuG 40 Ausf G of Waffen SS

Sturmgeschutz StuG 40 Ausf G with Schurzen

Sturmgeschutz StuG 40 ausf G, Bohmen und Mahren 1945

Sturmgeschutz StuG 40 of Panzer Regiment 2 Eisenach

Sturmgeschutz StuG 40 Winter Eastern Front

Sturmgeschutz StuG 40 with additional armor plating bolted on to the bow

Sturmgeschutz StuG III Ausf G

Sturmhaubitze StuH 42 with schurzen

tank destroyer StuG 40 Ausf G with shurzen

White washed StuG III Ausf G of SS Panzer Division Wiking Tscherkassy Eastern front

Wreckage of German StuG 40 ausf G in Noville 1944

StuG 40 ausf F, F/8 and G (Sd.Kfz 142/1) was version with longer 7.5 cm StuK 40 L/43 or 7.5 cm StuK 40 L/48 gun. Since March 1942 a self-propelled gun Stug III was armed with 7,5 cm StuK 40 long-barrel gun, a first version was StuG 40 Ausf F. Occurrence of a new assault gun StuG 40 Ausf F was caused by a qualitative advantage of Soviet T-34 and KV-1 tanks. StuG 40 were armed with 7,5 cm StuK 40 L/43 or L/48 gund. Stuk 40 gun was a modification of KwK40 tank gun. Installing a new gun entailed the necessity of installing a ventilator in a fighting compartment which was built in a middle part of the superstructure between a commander’s hatch and a load hatch. The electrically driven ventilator created characteristic “fireplace” on the superstructure. The cannon was protected by a shield made of an armour plate of 30 mm thick. StuG 40 Ausf F were manufactured in two series. The vehicles manufactured in the first batch (182 representatives) from March to July in 1942 did not have an additional armour of an “appliqué” type. The vehicles manufactured from July to September had an additional armour in the form of the armour plate of 30 mm thick. Additionally, in vehicles assembled since August the angle of tilt of armoured plates at the front of the superstructure was changed. Since September 1942 such an improved version of StuG 40 Ausf F was marked StuG 40 Ausf F/8 and launched to a batch production. The production batch ended with building 250 representatives until December 1942. StuG 40 Ausf F/8 self-propelled guns received as a standard armament 7,5 cm Stuk 40 L/48 guns of. A range of technological changes e.g. one-piece motor flaps were also introduced. Renovated representatives and if it is possible the other ones were modified in the middle of 1943. Armour plates of 5 mm at the side of the vehicle, so called “Schurtzen”, and armoured shield (made of the armour plate of 10 mm thick) for MG-34 were mounted on the right side of the superstructure. In December 1942 Alkett plants started to produce StuG 40 Ausf G self-propelled gun. Until April 1945 7893 vehicles of this version left assembling halls of factories taking part in production of StuG. StuG 40 Ausf G guns at the beginning of the production were built with an fixed armour of 50 mm, just since May 1943 (Alkett) the armour of 80 mm was introduced and since October in MIAG plants. It should be emphasized that only a body armour was thickened , a front armour of the superstructure was still of 50 + 30 mm. The fighting compartment was enlarged by placing side plates at 79° and back plate at 90°. A rear part of the fighting compartment was also heighten. Since January 1943 a ventilator of the fighting department was transferred to the back wall. A commander’s seven-periscope observation tower was also installed. Until October 1943 the commander’s tower was rotating, then since October 1944 fixed towers were mounted to come back to moveable once at the end of the production. MG34 armour shield was also mounted in two versions as a flat plate placed at 67° and as a low shield in the shape of “V”. Since June 1944 additional MG34 coupled with a cannon was installed. A characteristic difference was a new gun mantlet called “Saukopfblende”. As a support weapon of close reach, StuG III were excellent combination of armour and weaponry. They were also relatively cheap and simple to produce. That is why as many as 10306 were created, the most among German armoured vehicles.