The main battle tanks of the 116th Panzer Division were the Panther and the Panzer IV and much has been written elsewhere about these vehicles so I do not propose to duplicate that on this website, what we have done instead is to research and to find original photographs of Windhund armoured vehicles and have posted them here for all to see:
Our personal favourite is the one of the captured US M8 Greyhound armoured car being used by men of the Division, we wonder whether they saw the irony of it?
As a group we couldn't hope to ever display an original or even a replica version of these vehicles but sometimes we do get to 'play' in and around some of these great fighting vehicles!
"Four Storm Tigers were subordinated to my battalion. Due to the rocket propulsion, the projectiles left a long, meteor-like smoke trail behind them and thereby gave away their firing position immediately. As such they had to be relocated after each round was fired.
The first deployment was in the Dorsten-Kirchhellen area. Afer the evacuation of Kirchhellen, we took up position in the forest north of Feldhausen, from there we had a good view of the fork in the road north of Kirchhellen and observed that strong American combat units were assembled there and had come to a standstill. With all four Storm Tigers a salvo was fired, the effect was barely comprehensible. Vehicles flew through the air, tanks flipped over like cardboard boxes. Of course, we had to immediately leave our position, but it took hours for the enemy to recover."
Hauptmann Werner Adam, Commander, 1st Battalion, Panzer Regiment 16, 28 March 1945
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