Bull whispering to Jagd: "I heard there are newly arrived heifers at the next farm. Here's the plan Hans. You fake a stuck 4th gear and smash the fence as a distraction while I escape. I'll bring you a liter of synthetic motor oil for you when I get back."
It's wonderful to see the Jagdpanther live again. So much of the past WWII vehicles are gone and few of what remains is operational, just not a showpiece. I'm quite impressed with how much dedication it took to restore such a piece of history.
The attention to detail in this restoration is extraordinary. Acquiring all of the innards must have been a nightmare, Authentic radios, vision ports, etc. are not easily obtained. I do get disturbed when the narrator repeatedly interrupts his guest. Restoring this TD is a gift to future generations who will be able to experience what WW II combat must have been like.
Had the pleasure of seeing one of these back in 2014 at WTD in Trier, Germany. I really underestimated how massive this thing is, it looks "smaller" than it actually is, which is quite a feat since it doesn't look that small to begin with. The one in Trier is maintained by the german army, operational and in very good condition as well.
@@MrZauberelefant I only remember the Panther engine being outside the Tank and they started it off, which was crazy loud and I tried recording it with my phone but the audio on the video is just static noise because it was so loud haha. I think they had a Stug III, T-34/85, Jagdpanther, Panzer 38(t), Panther, Flammpanzer III, I think a Panzer IV, PzH Wespe and some towing vehicles.
The attention to detail in the restoration is incredible. This resurrection is a work of love To see what they started with then seeing the result, amazing. .
I know more or less the story of this magnificent Jagdpanther that was restored from being a rusted holed-up scrap transformed into perhaps the best Jagdpanther around. Also because the owner has been incredibly efficient in obtaining original parts around Europe! I'm really impressed 👍👍👍
@Over Drive LZMA. sorry if I'm replying so late, honestly I don't know if they have a Jagdpanter in that museum 🤔 but it has incredibly rare German tanks not to mention the Maus. If wasn't for the war I have loved to see it
I stood in front of one in the Panzermuseum in Munster and out of all vehicles there it left the biggest impression on me. Close to it you don't really register the slope anymore and it's just this massive wall of steel.
Dear Mr. Gibb and all at the Weald trust, thank you for sharing your vehicle and knowledge with us. It warms my heart to think that this film will be there for future generations, to help preserve such an important part of our human history. Keep up the great work all, it does make a difference.
@@11geosno Not sure how and where you got that idea ... But yes I had to grow up under apartheid, so know it well, and always objected to it and any racist ideology.
Great video, thanks. One of the baddest tank destroyers of WWII, a nightmare for Allied tankers to run into. Wonderful piece of history, great that one has been restored so well. 👍
-Technically not really a tank destroyer though it is fair enough description. -The US had 'tank destroyers' which were lightly armored tracked vehicles, open top, fast and with a big long range gun. The idea is they could get to the front line very quickly to intercept an tank breakthrough, find cover and pick of the enemy tanks from a distance. The Germans did have tank destroyers: the Nashorn built on a Panzer IV chassis with Panzer III gearbox and engine with the L71 8.8cm would fulfill that role though lacked the turret. They had special long range optics and were manned by artillery crew and all of the special training that entails. One of these is credited with a tank kill at 4km against a T-34. The commanders often left the tank and directed fire from outside the Nashorn. -Jagdpanther and Jagdpanzer had more powerful guns and more Armour than their turreted counterparts achieved by removing the turret and sacrificing some mobility. -The StuG were different again: more self propelled heavily armored guns manned by artillery men and usually lacking a radio operator and having only one MG.
Thanks to James for hosting / presenting. Kudos to Mike & team for what I can only imagine was a very arduous journey of research / logistics / fabrication / financial commitment to get this vehicle to such an excellent end state. 👍. As a retired 🇨🇦 Armoured Crewman who commanded the Leopard C1 in W. Germany early ‘80s, the Germans definitely learned lessons from WWII experiences, the Leo although sophisticated was very easy to maintain and not over engineered.
The Australian Armour and Artillery museum have just finished restoring a Jagpanther, their TH-cam channel is awesome and worth watching. They have also done a Tiger 1, a Hummel and are working on a Stug 111 and a Grant
War always brings technology screaming forward in leaps and bounds. There are plenty of examples but an obvious one would be that the German would probably still be rolling around in panzer 2’s if ww2 didn’t happen or especially if the T-34 hadn’t made such a huge impact
@@andreasfahlen4936 Neither does the nazi suicidal, genocidal, dictatorial approach to their problems. People of different cultures should not be forced to live together but they should not be forcefully separated either.
Technically this wasn't a 'tank destroyer' by German defintiion. The Germans had 5 types 1 Panzer (IE Tank) usually 5 man crew. 2 StuG or Assault Gun. This was a heavily armoured self propelled artillery gun which emphasised low profile. It was manned by artillery units and was designed to directly support troops. It has only 4 crew memebers and dispensed with the radio opperator hull gunner. The Germans had noticed that towed artillery often could not be brough forward till night falls seriously hampering infantry advances and so the STuG or armoured assault gun was created. 3 Panzerjaeger (Tank Hunter) this was a lightly armoured vehicle dsigned to be mobile but equiped with a powerfull gun. This is closest to the American concept of a tank destroyer but lacked the turret. The most famours is the Panzer 4 based "Nashorn" or "Rhinoceros" which had the long barreled 88mm PAK 43 gun. Again crewed by artilleryman they were meant to fire from out of range and under cover. One of these achived a kill against a T-34 at 4.2km. The Artillery trained crew know how to survey ranges and the commander often directed fire by microphone from 100 meters away from the tank. 4 Jagdpanzer like the JagdPanther which unnlike Panzerjaeger were fully armoured compard to the tank they were based on but had a more powerfull gun and often more armour. Jagdpanzer, jagdpanther and jagdtiger. Unlike StuG they had a full crew and even more.
If I could bring up a bit of criticism - I would have loved to see more of the visceral elements of this thing: I can only imagine what that must have sounded like, the engine noise and all that. A closer view of how it starts up or the noises it does while driving along. The music and distance really distract from that. Otherwise it's a treat, obviously.
Just search for jagdpanther wtd. Wtd is a German arms research facility and they also operate wwii tanks. They move it around quite fast. Which gives you a good impression of what the Panther was capable in terms of driving performance.
Me too, but given the Frankenstein nature of the vehicle, the general age of its components, and the delicacy of the design (even fresh from the factory in 1944), I think they have to exert an extreme level of mechanical sympathy when driving this vehicle. The pollution these things pump out at high revs is unreal, too. Might raise some eyebrows in that countryside setting. Remember, the French assessed/field-tested loads of Panthers after WW2 and concluded that 700km was the absolute best one could hope for before the engine needed re-building.... so if I were Mike Gibb, I would be driving that thing like Miss Daisy and hoping for 1400km before having to tear the whole damn back end down again....
@@Grantidge69 the wtd is driving its Panthers for 30 years now. There is a report about a Bergepanther who drove 4200km without any trouble including towing other german heavy tanks for 1000km. Maybe if the right metal alloys are used and beeing driven by a decent driver these things could last much longer than the average 1500 to 2000km they achieved in Frontline service mid 1944.
Outstanding video and presentation. My favorite tank destroyer of WW2. Beautiful restoration, information and internal views that are very rarely seen. I saw a Jag Panther at the Aberdeen proving grounds, what a monster. But to see a fully restored example is priceless for us modelers and history buffs.
My hats off to everyone involved in restoring this invaluable piece of history ! Really cool looking vehicle !! Must have been a nightmare to encounter this beast ! Great video History Hit 👍 how effective was the camo scheme ?
Wow History Hit this might be my favourite video of yours yet. You're a total inspiration and actually because of seeing your success I've decided to start making videos too! Keep grinding, your hard work clearly pays off!
@@HistoryHit This was a very well presented and informative video about this amazing, rare restoration. I’d like to see a video about how this specific vehicle aimed its gun, especially the traverse. It seems difficult to aim or hit moving targets. Great work!
An absolutely magnificent and, might I say, beautiful piece of machinery. The restoration of it has been quite a successful endeavor. I tip my cap to Mike Gibb and his painstaking effort.
Thanks for the great video. I saw this vehicle not long after they had got it up and running. An amazing vehicle on so many levels. They had to get parts from various Maybach engines to get one complete unit up and running. One area that could have been touched on a little more is the main gun. Alas, some confuse the Pak 43/88mm/L71 with the KwK36/88mm/L56 gun fitted to the Tiger 1. Many who watch your videos wont, but some will. Although the projectile was not too dissimilar, the Pak43 was a marked improvement, although bulky both in shell size and gun. The velocity of round was the key difference, going from 780>930 metres per second (KwK36) up to 1050 metres per second (Pak43). It meant the chances of penetrating on each hit was markedly increased. So for me it is the combination of mobility, armour, and a gun that things it hits, stay hit.
Ich als deutscher kriegswaffen liebhaber besonders panzer jäger.ich kann nur sagen . Danke für diese arbeit!!! Absoluter traum! Wir in deutschland haben viel zu wenig unserer wwI panzer zum anschauen und bewundern. Danke das es in anderen ländern wert geschätzt wird das auf zu bewahren.
Sometimes I am amazed at what we can get for free in modern society. All the time, effort, money put into the restoration of such a machine coupled with such an interesting video and all for free.
I know, you're right! Likewise, I'm amazed that people sometimes suggest they'd prefer to have lived in some other period of time But, we live like kings!! And, actually, I'd bet that a lot of kings would be envious of OUR lives!!!😀
Great video. And probably the best restored WW3Vehicle I've ever seen. Kudos to the Weald Foundation. Plus the Jagdpather is my favourite ww2 armoured vehicle.
Very good piece of film. Informative, well put together and thoroughly interesting from start to finish. There were actually two impressive beasts in that field, Number 411 and that lovely Limousin bull !!
If a tank destroyer could be classified as a sports car. The Jagdpanther would fit the profile. Elegantly designed. And a wonderful restoration. Hats off to all the gentlemen involved in preserving this piece of history.
10 years of research and part hunting - not to mention rebuilding the wreck that it was before. Incredible. I wonder if the camouflage scheme has a history too or is their own creation. In the latter case I would add some RAL6003 Green; it would even look better in my opinion.
Hats off to Mr. Gibb for the love and care that you put in the restoration of this vehicle! Also, your German is great! If I may suggest a tiny improvement: Forward and Backward translate as Vorwärts / Rückwärts. You missed the dots on the a`s in your instrument labelling. (20:44) Still an outstanding job!
My father was part of a 6lbr gun crew with the “Polar Bears” guarding a crossroads somewhere in Belgium when a lone tank approached them from what they thought was behind their lines. At that point the Jagdpathers were unknown to the gun crew and they thought it was a Panzer 4. They fired a standard round into the tracks which bounced off having done little to the tank except broken the sprocket, I remember my father telling me the gun crew couldn’t understand why the driver kept shuffling the tank instead of swinging the turret, they assumed it was because it wasn’t far enough past the wall. Dad was sent back to the Bren Gun Carrier to get a box of the recently issued Sabot rounds, they put one of those into the tank and it went through the armour, dad said some of the crew made it out but most didn’t, those that did were mortally wounded. It wasn’t until we went to Belgium in the late 90s and met up with a historian that dad learned that what they thought at the time was a Panzer 4 was actually a Jagdpather and this was the reason it couldn’t get its gun to bear! I can’t imagine how terrifying that would have been as a teenager. Thank you for keeping these historic vehicles alive, it has helped me understand my father’s wartime story. The action is documented in a book but it is sadly told as a solo action claiming the gun crew were “elsewhere!” 🤷♂️
Did anyone else notice (3:16) that cow run right in front of the moving tank before the camera cuts away? Following which we see no more cow in the field.
My father was a driver of a Panzerkampfwagen V popularly known as "Panther" in the 3rd Panzer Division. He described it as a very good vehicle, but it was noted that it had to be ready for use too quickly. A sufficiently long test period did not take place with the original "Panther". He had to be reported "ready for action" too quickly. The Jagdpanther had the same weaknesses. What set the Panther (7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70) and Jagdpanther (8.8 cm PaK 43/3 L/71) apart were their two extremely effective guns. What I found in historian Holland and Mr. Mike Gibb notices her unprejudiced, technology-interested and much more handling of the "Jagdpanther". You have retained the enthusiasm of a little boy, which makes this adept handling of the vehicle possible in the first place. Thank you for your great work.
I scratched build a late Tiger 1 in a 1/6th scale which took me 2 years to finish. Now I'm thinking of scratch building this awesome TD for my next project!
Keeping this historic war machines is important and the research along with it. I really appreciate these guys who restore and keep this historic items for our future generations.
Great piece of video, but a clip of the beast moving without any voiceover would be appreciated, that way we could hear the engine roar and the tracks clanking and get a real feel for the vehicle in motion
Watching this incredible piece of engineering here on phone is giving me chills, I wonde how honoured and magnificent u felt seeing this German Engineering Marvel👍
In January 2002, I saw one in the Imperial War Museum. It has four holes in the right-hand side that were made from a range of about 50 yards by a Welsh Guards Cromwell. The Jagdpanther saw the Cromwell first and fired first, but missed. The Cromwell then stalked it and caught it side-on. I looked through the group of holes in the side, where the 75-mm shots had penetrated the 1-inch armour and saw large dents in the opposite side - the shots had the energy to penetrate one side, but not the other, so things must have got pretty noisy inside for the crew, with large lumps of metal rattling around in the space they were occupying.
German hull MGs were mounted in a ball in a spherical housing, of various types, including this one. Alongside the MG there was a simple monocular telescope, the KZF.2 You will find plenty of information about it, via Google.
Great video, but as you have alluded to by the time they were introduced, a lot of the experienced crew had already gone to Valhalla. If you're interested, there is a great video of a Jagpanther rebuild in the armoured museum Cairns Australia. 🇦🇺
Great video and amazing work on keeping a part of history alive. It would have been even better if we heard the sound of the vehicle instead of the music that was played over the starting and running of the tank. It's so rare to have a working example and the sound of it running is the major difference between a museum piece and a working tank.
Unfortunaly no german translation, a little bit hard to follow for me😭, so interesting video. These two men are so exited to show us this tank. Thank you for that Fantastical overengeneered i understood. Jagdpanzer looks like a sportscar.
There is an interview Bernhard did on Military History Not Visulised with a German tank commander who mentions that the Wiesel (a 4 ton German tracked recon tank) left tracks in the grass that disappeared after less than a 1.5 hours. For a heavy vehicle that crushes the soil it would be days in some cases.
The Jagdpather's Pak43/L71 main gun was also mounted on the Elefant/Ferdinand and the King Tiger. Would be awsome if James Holland does the Elefant that was restored decades ago, would love to see what the fight compartment looks like in of one the biggest tank destroyers the Germans built.
No bulls were harmed during the creation of this video...🐂
Bull: Get off MY pasture, pal!
Jagdpanther: You wanna make something of it, eh?
Actually, they had a Big Texas BQ after shooting the video.
Is just a Bull Grenadier protecting the tank.
Looked like love to me.
That bull was very curious about what the hell that thing was. And apparently, it smelled very interesting🤣😂
I love the bull checking out the armour at the beginning
Actually that is COWmoooflauge!
@@stevefreeland9255 very clever! 😂😂
bull; 'i can take it!"
bull 30 minutes later; 'blimey! what a beast!"
I think we all loved this bull checking out if he could have a ride on the Jagdpanther ❤❤❤🤣😂
Bull whispering to Jagd: "I heard there are newly arrived heifers at the next farm. Here's the plan Hans. You fake a stuck 4th gear and smash the fence as a distraction while I escape. I'll bring you a liter of synthetic motor oil for you when I get back."
It's wonderful to see the Jagdpanther live again. So much of the past WWII vehicles are gone and few of what remains is operational, just not a showpiece. I'm quite impressed with how much dedication it took to restore such a piece of history.
Jagdpanzer ;-) Its the type of tank and means hunting-tank.
amazing how immaculately its restored considering it was a range target! great job guys!
See one at the Bastogne Museum in Bastogne, Belgium.
The attention to detail in this restoration is extraordinary. Acquiring all of the innards must have been a nightmare, Authentic radios, vision ports, etc. are not easily obtained. I do get disturbed when the narrator repeatedly interrupts his guest. Restoring this TD is a gift to future generations who will be able to experience what WW II combat must have been like.
Had the pleasure of seeing one of these back in 2014 at WTD in Trier, Germany. I really underestimated how massive this thing is, it looks "smaller" than it actually is, which is quite a feat since it doesn't look that small to begin with. The one in Trier is maintained by the german army, operational and in very good condition as well.
I think I was present as well, they took the engine out because it wouldn't start.
Started it without silencers. Loudest noise I've ever witnessed.
@@MrZauberelefant I only remember the Panther engine being outside the Tank and they started it off, which was crazy loud and I tried recording it with my phone but the audio on the video is just static noise because it was so loud haha.
I think they had a Stug III, T-34/85, Jagdpanther, Panzer 38(t), Panther, Flammpanzer III, I think a Panzer IV, PzH Wespe and some towing vehicles.
I was in Munster recently. These machines were gigantic. Even T-34s and Shermans were massive. I was baffled.
The attention to detail in the restoration is incredible.
This resurrection is a work of love
To see what they started with then seeing the result, amazing.
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Totally blown away by the quality of this restoration 👍
I know more or less the story of this magnificent Jagdpanther that was restored from being a rusted holed-up scrap transformed into perhaps the best Jagdpanther around. Also because the owner has been incredibly efficient in obtaining original parts around Europe! I'm really impressed 👍👍👍
And Kubinka ?
@Over Drive LZMA. sorry if I'm replying so late, honestly I don't know if they have a Jagdpanter in that museum 🤔 but it has incredibly rare German tanks not to mention the Maus. If wasn't for the war I have loved to see it
I stood in front of one in the Panzermuseum in Munster and out of all vehicles there it left the biggest impression on me. Close to it you don't really register the slope anymore and it's just this massive wall of steel.
Especially with those shell marks on that armor there, insane engineering marvel
same, the one they have in munster is also in pretty good shape, such a beautiful piece of armor
Dear Mr. Gibb and all at the Weald trust, thank you for sharing your vehicle and knowledge with us. It warms my heart to think that this film will be there for future generations, to help preserve such an important part of our human history. Keep up the great work all, it does make a difference.
He sounds (Mr Gibbs) from his accent, to be of South African origin, is that correct? Just asking ...
@@petersutherland7482 That’s what I thought too.
@@petersutherland7482 interesting that a white south african would have such an interest in the history of white supremacy....
@@11geosno Not sure how and where you got that idea ... But yes I had to grow up under apartheid, so know it well, and always objected to it and any racist ideology.
@@petersutherland7482 because I looked at his restoration site and 90% of it are Nazi vehicles
I wasn't talking about you!
Great video, thanks. One of the baddest tank destroyers of WWII, a nightmare for Allied tankers to run into. Wonderful piece of history, great that one has been restored so well. 👍
-Technically not really a tank destroyer though it is fair enough description.
-The US had 'tank destroyers' which were lightly armored tracked vehicles, open top, fast and with a big long range gun. The idea is they could get to the front line very quickly to intercept an tank breakthrough, find cover and pick of the enemy tanks from a distance. The Germans did have tank destroyers: the Nashorn built on a Panzer IV chassis with Panzer III gearbox and engine with the L71 8.8cm would fulfill that role though lacked the turret. They had special long range optics and were manned by artillery crew and all of the special training that entails. One of these is credited with a tank kill at 4km against a T-34. The commanders often left the tank and directed fire from outside the Nashorn.
-Jagdpanther and Jagdpanzer had more powerful guns and more Armour than their turreted counterparts achieved by removing the turret and sacrificing some mobility.
-The StuG were different again: more self propelled heavily armored guns manned by artillery men and usually lacking a radio operator and having only one MG.
That bull is doing his bit by giving the tank some scale. Please can we have him in every video? 😂
7:32
@Creator ah yes, that's the actual measurements, but it doesn't really give you the same sense of scale as a random bull does it? 😂
It's a very small bull.
Don't call it a tank. Thanks to its shape it was rated a super-heavy pickup truck.
Broke: Penny for scale
Woke: Banana for scale
Bespoke: Bull for scale
I love James Holland. He is such a great WW2 historian. His podcast with Al Murray is brilliant too (We Have Ways Of Making You Talk)
I hope there's more to come in this series with James Holland.
Very enjoyable video, as always.
Fascinating. Well done Mike Gibb for restoring and preserving and explaining this piece of history.
Thanks to James for hosting / presenting. Kudos to Mike & team for what I can only imagine was a very arduous journey of research / logistics / fabrication / financial commitment to get this vehicle to such an excellent end state. 👍. As a retired 🇨🇦 Armoured Crewman who commanded the Leopard C1 in W. Germany early ‘80s, the Germans definitely learned lessons from WWII experiences, the Leo although sophisticated was very easy to maintain and not over engineered.
That's why the Ukrainians want Leos, specifically the Leo 2 - sophisticated yet easy to maintain.
The Australian Armour and Artillery museum have just finished restoring a Jagpanther, their TH-cam channel is awesome and worth watching. They have also done a Tiger 1, a Hummel and are working on a Stug 111 and a Grant
And a running panther!!
@@MrDredd1966 yeah from Bruce C
@@kiwifruit27 bovington need to step up and get its panther running..😁
@@MrDredd1966 they said they won’t as it is original from the war so they won’t touch it
@@kiwifruit27 😱🤦♂️😭
The design of the anti tank vehicle is so beautiful. It looks so modern. The germans were way ahead of their time.
Technologically but not ideologically.
@@BlueZirnitra Well I am not so sure about that, the multiculti doesnt work that well at least not with MENA-people.
War always brings technology screaming forward in leaps and bounds.
There are plenty of examples but an obvious one would be that the German would probably still be rolling around in panzer 2’s if ww2 didn’t happen or especially if the T-34 hadn’t made such a huge impact
@@andreasfahlen4936 Neither does the nazi suicidal, genocidal, dictatorial approach to their problems. People of different cultures should not be forced to live together but they should not be forcefully separated either.
@@BlueZirnitra they were right about it all. From A to Z
Such a beautiful piece of history
What a beast of a machine. Amazing German engineering and brutality.
This is amazing. When I saw what tank destroyer we were going to see in the video, I said "Yes, please".
Technically this wasn't a 'tank destroyer' by German defintiion. The Germans had 5 types
1 Panzer (IE Tank) usually 5 man crew.
2 StuG or Assault Gun. This was a heavily armoured self propelled artillery gun which emphasised low profile. It was manned by artillery units and was designed to directly support troops. It has only 4 crew memebers and dispensed with the radio opperator hull gunner. The Germans had noticed that towed artillery often could not be brough forward till night falls seriously hampering infantry advances and so the STuG or armoured assault gun was created.
3 Panzerjaeger (Tank Hunter) this was a lightly armoured vehicle dsigned to be mobile but equiped with a powerfull gun. This is closest to the American concept of a tank destroyer but lacked the turret. The most famours is the Panzer 4 based "Nashorn" or "Rhinoceros" which had the long barreled 88mm PAK 43 gun. Again crewed by artilleryman they were meant to fire from out of range and under cover. One of these achived a kill against a T-34 at 4.2km. The Artillery trained crew know how to survey ranges and the commander often directed fire by microphone from 100 meters away from the tank.
4 Jagdpanzer like the JagdPanther which unnlike Panzerjaeger were fully armoured compard to the tank they were based on but had a more powerfull gun and often more armour.
Jagdpanzer, jagdpanther and jagdtiger. Unlike StuG they had a full crew and even more.
A labor of love to restore such a massive and complicated vehicle. Thank you for showcasing it.
If I could bring up a bit of criticism - I would have loved to see more of the visceral elements of this thing: I can only imagine what that must have sounded like, the engine noise and all that. A closer view of how it starts up or the noises it does while driving along. The music and distance really distract from that.
Otherwise it's a treat, obviously.
Just search for jagdpanther wtd. Wtd is a German arms research facility and they also operate wwii tanks. They move it around quite fast. Which gives you a good impression of what the Panther was capable in terms of driving performance.
Me too, but given the Frankenstein nature of the vehicle, the general age of its components, and the delicacy of the design (even fresh from the factory in 1944), I think they have to exert an extreme level of mechanical sympathy when driving this vehicle. The pollution these things pump out at high revs is unreal, too. Might raise some eyebrows in that countryside setting. Remember, the French assessed/field-tested loads of Panthers after WW2 and concluded that 700km was the absolute best one could hope for before the engine needed re-building.... so if I were Mike Gibb, I would be driving that thing like Miss Daisy and hoping for 1400km before having to tear the whole damn back end down again....
@@Grantidge69 the wtd is driving its Panthers for 30 years now. There is a report about a Bergepanther who drove 4200km without any trouble including towing other german heavy tanks for 1000km. Maybe if the right metal alloys are used and beeing driven by a decent driver these things could last much longer than the average 1500 to 2000km they achieved in Frontline service mid 1944.
Always loved the "Jagdpanther", one lovely but lethal looking machine. That Bull seems to be in love with it too.. Great video.
Outstanding video and presentation. My favorite tank destroyer of WW2. Beautiful restoration, information and internal views that are very rarely seen. I saw a Jag Panther at the Aberdeen proving grounds, what a monster. But to see a fully restored example is priceless for us modelers and history buffs.
I saw it Aberdeen over 50 years ago. What an incredible place. So lucky to have parents who indulged my whim to go there.
I went to Aberdeen in the late 80's. My friend was impressed as I named the tanks before we got to them. Too bad they were moved to VA.
@@ourshelties7649 At least they are now being cosmetically restored, kept inside and not just rusting away out in the weather.
James Holland’s a bloody legend. He has some excellent books.
Does a very decent podcast also - the rest is history
@@extramild1 what's James Hollands podcast called mucker
@@extramild1 Are you sure you are talking about the same person? According to the description of said podcast, the host is Tom Holland, not James 😅
@@redskyatnight123 we have ways of making you talk with Al Murray. 500 episodes 😁
@@dfwarner84 thank you
Thank you SO much for restoring and sharing, appreciate it a lot 👍
Greetings from the Netherlands, T.
What a beauty. One of my best tanks of WW 2 era.
My hats off to everyone involved in restoring this invaluable piece of history ! Really cool looking vehicle !! Must have been a nightmare to encounter this beast ! Great video History Hit 👍 how effective was the camo scheme ?
One of my favorite Tanks of all time. I love the look of this thing.
Wow History Hit this might be my favourite video of yours yet. You're a total inspiration and actually because of seeing your success I've decided to start making videos too! Keep grinding, your hard work clearly pays off!
nice bro
go on bro!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@HistoryHit
This was a very well presented and informative video about this amazing, rare restoration.
I’d like to see a video about how this specific vehicle aimed its gun, especially the traverse.
It seems difficult to aim or hit moving targets.
Great work!
An absolutely magnificent and, might I say, beautiful piece of machinery. The restoration of it has been quite a successful endeavor. I tip my cap to Mike Gibb and his painstaking effort.
That bull was the real star! Awesome video, love that TD.
Thanks for the great video.
I saw this vehicle not long after they had got it up and running. An amazing vehicle on so many levels. They had to get parts from various Maybach engines to get one complete unit up and running.
One area that could have been touched on a little more is the main gun. Alas, some confuse the Pak 43/88mm/L71 with the KwK36/88mm/L56 gun fitted to the Tiger 1. Many who watch your videos wont, but some will.
Although the projectile was not too dissimilar, the Pak43 was a marked improvement, although bulky both in shell size and gun. The velocity of round was the key difference, going from 780>930 metres per second (KwK36) up to 1050 metres per second (Pak43). It meant the chances of penetrating on each hit was markedly increased.
So for me it is the combination of mobility, armour, and a gun that things it hits, stay hit.
Ich als deutscher kriegswaffen liebhaber besonders panzer jäger.ich kann nur sagen . Danke für diese arbeit!!! Absoluter traum! Wir in deutschland haben viel zu wenig unserer wwI panzer zum anschauen und bewundern. Danke das es in anderen ländern wert geschätzt wird das auf zu bewahren.
One of the nastiest and, to be honest, coolest looking WW2 vehicles! I feel very thankful that i didn't have to either face one, or be in one!
Jagdpanther is one of my all time favorite armored vehicles of ww2. Great video
There’s a group in Australia that remade a Jagdpanther. It’s on TH-cam. Amazing piece!
The Australian Armour and Artillery museum, for those who are wondering.
Also known as just 'ozarmour'. They have a TH-cam channel. Fantastic videos.
@@Liamv4696 there’s doesn’t run yet. I think they are working on the interior.
@@Liamv4696 Workshop Wednesdays videos are great.
Outstanding...the most complete and perfect one of the three left in the world!
Historian James Holland is CLASS !!!
So awesome to see a South African so passionate in the preservation of WW2 armoured vehicles. Can’t miss the accent!
Sometimes I am amazed at what we can get for free in modern society. All the time, effort, money put into the restoration of such a machine coupled with such an interesting video and all for free.
Nothing in life is free. What a twit you have to be to think such a stupid thought....
@@MrSvenovitch Were you kicked in the head as a child or what?
I know, you're right!
Likewise, I'm amazed that people sometimes suggest they'd prefer to have lived in some other period of time
But, we live like kings!!
And, actually, I'd bet that a lot of kings would be envious of OUR lives!!!😀
@@sheltr9735 RIGHT! one word.. ELECTRICITY!
You don't get it for free.
The viewer is the commodity
This was one of the best videos you have done. Well produced and incredibly informative. Awesome.
Great video. And probably the best restored WW3Vehicle I've ever seen. Kudos to the Weald Foundation. Plus the Jagdpather is my favourite ww2 armoured vehicle.
WW3 vehicle???? 😂😂👍
@@samuelgordino Doubt there will be any of those left.
I love James Holland's boyish ethusiasm for war machinery. Could watch this all day long.
Very good piece of film. Informative, well put together and thoroughly interesting from start to finish. There were actually two impressive beasts in that field, Number 411 and that lovely Limousin bull !!
And a cameo appearance by a hound.
I built a plastic model of this one with my dad :) Absolutely iconic. First time I ever saw this thing was in CoH 1, been loving it ever since.
Really interesting and informative! Thank you to Mike for sharing your knowledge on a truly legendary WWII vehicle. Lekker 👍
If a tank destroyer could be classified as a sports car. The Jagdpanther would fit the profile.
Elegantly designed. And a wonderful restoration.
Hats off to all the gentlemen involved in preserving this piece of history.
10 years of research and part hunting - not to mention rebuilding the wreck that it was before. Incredible. I wonder if the camouflage scheme has a history too or is their own creation. In the latter case I would add some RAL6003 Green; it would even look better in my opinion.
Thanks for the engine startup and the time spent listening to this beast.
Fantastic presentation, wonderful restoration, the bull has also fallen in love with it!!! 😁
A wonderful rebuild of a powerful WW 2 tank destroyer..and insight of use and missuses of this great machine.
I've already watched this series on History Hit TV but often rewatch as they are top notch!
Many thanks to Mr. Mike Gibb for restauring this important piece of german wwII-history.
Great work, im really impressed!
What an absolute beast. A very impressive machine.
Hats off to Mr. Gibb for the love and care that you put in the restoration of this vehicle!
Also, your German is great! If I may suggest a tiny improvement: Forward and Backward translate as Vorwärts / Rückwärts. You missed the dots on the a`s in your instrument labelling. (20:44) Still an outstanding job!
My father was part of a 6lbr gun crew with the “Polar Bears” guarding a crossroads somewhere in Belgium when a lone tank approached them from what they thought was behind their lines. At that point the Jagdpathers were unknown to the gun crew and they thought it was a Panzer 4.
They fired a standard round into the tracks which bounced off having done little to the tank except broken the sprocket, I remember my father telling me the gun crew couldn’t understand why the driver kept shuffling the tank instead of swinging the turret, they assumed it was because it wasn’t far enough past the wall.
Dad was sent back to the Bren Gun Carrier to get a box of the recently issued Sabot rounds, they put one of those into the tank and it went through the armour, dad said some of the crew made it out but most didn’t, those that did were mortally wounded.
It wasn’t until we went to Belgium in the late 90s and met up with a historian that dad learned that what they thought at the time was a Panzer 4 was actually a Jagdpather and this was the reason it couldn’t get its gun to bear!
I can’t imagine how terrifying that would have been as a teenager.
Thank you for keeping these historic vehicles alive, it has helped me understand my father’s wartime story.
The action is documented in a book but it is sadly told as a solo action claiming the gun crew were “elsewhere!” 🤷♂️
Great stuff indeed ....for a lover of scale modelling this was really a super opportunity to learn a lot of things. Thank you very much indeed.
Did anyone else notice (3:16) that cow run right in front of the moving tank before the camera cuts away? Following which we see no more cow in the field.
Love this. So great there are people around with the time, money and energy to do this.
My father was a driver of a Panzerkampfwagen V popularly known as "Panther" in the 3rd Panzer Division. He described it as a very good vehicle, but it was noted that it had to be ready for use too quickly. A sufficiently long test period did not take place with the original "Panther". He had to be reported "ready for action" too quickly.
The Jagdpanther had the same weaknesses. What set the Panther (7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70) and Jagdpanther (8.8 cm PaK 43/3 L/71) apart were their two extremely effective guns.
What I found in historian Holland and Mr. Mike Gibb notices her unprejudiced, technology-interested and much more handling of the "Jagdpanther".
You have retained the enthusiasm of a little boy, which makes this adept handling of the vehicle possible in the first place. Thank you for your great work.
What an informative and entertaining video! Love the Jagdpanther !
Awesome! Another great episode, hopefully there are still more to come.
impressive job on restoration, would love to see (and hear) that tank moving in real life.
I scratched build a late Tiger 1 in a 1/6th scale which took me 2 years to finish. Now I'm thinking of scratch building this awesome TD for my next project!
Thankful for having the opportunity to even be able to see this. love the content. thank you.
The best looking armored vehicle of the war... purposeful, elegant, minimalist design... beautiful in it's own way
Keeping this historic war machines is important and the research along with it.
I really appreciate these guys who restore and keep this historic items for our future generations.
I have always liked the look of German WW2 tanks and anti-Tank guns. They had all the gear but not the numbers. Thanks 👍
Dieses Ding zu restaurieren ist sehr fordernd. Das restaurieren alter Fahrzeuge ist wirklich spannend und manchmal unmöglich. Well Done.
Great piece of video, but a clip of the beast moving without any voiceover would be appreciated, that way we could hear the engine roar and the tracks clanking and get a real feel for the vehicle in motion
The bull interacting with the Jagdpanther is what makes this video even MORE awesome.
My favorite armored fighting vehicle of the war. Aesthetically speaking it is a work of art.
Watching this incredible piece of engineering here on phone is giving me chills, I wonde how honoured and magnificent u felt seeing this German Engineering Marvel👍
I reckon the Bull at the start is the Tank Operator and he's just standing outside posing being all proud
Ridgeback 🐕 at 19:40 ❤ Hats off for this beautiful resto and quality dialogue. Kind of wanted to hear her in operation 😝
In January 2002, I saw one in the Imperial War Museum. It has four holes in the right-hand side that were made from a range of about 50 yards by a Welsh Guards Cromwell. The Jagdpanther saw the Cromwell first and fired first, but missed. The Cromwell then stalked it and caught it side-on. I looked through the group of holes in the side, where the 75-mm shots had penetrated the 1-inch armour and saw large dents in the opposite side - the shots had the energy to penetrate one side, but not the other, so things must have got pretty noisy inside for the crew, with large lumps of metal rattling around in the space they were occupying.
Noisy? They were goo instantly
@@jugo1944 From what I read, the crew survived, baled out and took to their scrapers.
Many compliments to those wonderful artisans who restored this tank to its former glory, that's absolutely a wonderful job they made. 👏
The level of detail and "factory restoration" is MINDBLOWING !!!!! Thank you for a lovely video. For every history fan this is heart-melting ....
Thanks James your the greatest , and many thanks to Mike and his crew.
Great video! Please do a video of the Panther.
Read war into the West last year....and love Holland ever since and as a Librarian...I made sure he is in my 900 Collection.
"The Maybach was not built with maintenance in mind."
Every German car owner: relatable
Unbelievable restoration.. what a undertaking.
There doesn't seem to be a periscope for the hull MG 34 operator, how does he see what he would be shooting at?
German hull MGs were mounted in a ball in a spherical housing, of various types, including this one.
Alongside the MG there was a simple monocular telescope, the KZF.2
You will find plenty of information about it, via Google.
God Bless you Sir for Saving this Historical Lady.
Great video, but as you have alluded to by the time they were introduced, a lot of the experienced crew had already gone to Valhalla. If you're interested, there is a great video of a Jagpanther rebuild in the armoured museum Cairns Australia. 🇦🇺
love this video. i learnt so much more from this video and from ppl who restore it.
Thank you,
Incredible German engineering!
Great video and amazing work on keeping a part of history alive. It would have been even better if we heard the sound of the vehicle instead of the music that was played over the starting and running of the tank. It's so rare to have a working example and the sound of it running is the major difference between a museum piece and a working tank.
Rest in peace Michael
I'm lucky enough to have been inside this vehicle with Mike and even heard an 88 mm gun been test fired! It's spectacular example.
Unfortunaly no german translation, a little bit hard to follow for me😭, so interesting video. These two men are so exited to show us this tank. Thank you for that
Fantastical overengeneered i understood.
Jagdpanzer looks like a sportscar.
Schau einfach noch ein bisschen TH-cam (auf englisch). Dann brauchst du die englische Übersetzung nicht mehr!
Genau, in Ruhe schauen, ist nicht schwer.
The Jagdpanther is absolutely beautiful
The aerial shots around the 23min mark really give you an idea of how easily AFVs could be spotted from the air from the tell-tale track marks
There is an interview Bernhard did on Military History Not Visulised with a German tank commander who mentions that the Wiesel (a 4 ton German tracked recon tank) left tracks in the grass that disappeared after less than a 1.5 hours. For a heavy vehicle that crushes the soil it would be days in some cases.
My God! What a beautiful sophisticated vehicle!
The Jagdpather's Pak43/L71 main gun was also mounted on the Elefant/Ferdinand and the King Tiger.
Would be awsome if James Holland does the Elefant that was restored decades ago, would love to see what the fight compartment looks like in of one the biggest tank destroyers the Germans built.
Jagdtiger was the biggest
@@megayoufunify the Jagdtiger didn't have the L71 88.
King Tiger have not a PAK Panzerabwehrkanone it is a KWK Kampfwagenkanone
@@MonkeyDRuffy82 no kidding, that's why I also posted L71
@@evilfingers4302 I saw your post The problem is both KWK and PAK are L71 caliber length and that's why I clarified it.
What an absolutely spectacular feat of restoration!