Driven to desperate measures in the last year of the war, the Germans used 268 Panther tank turrets to create 'Pantherturm', fearsome steel and concrete bunkers able to knock out most Allied tanks. They came as a nasty surprise to the Western Allies in Italy and on the Siegfried Line.

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Primary Source: Defence of the Rhine 1944-45 by Steven J. Zaloga, (Osprey: 2013)
Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress; Fabien Chaufournier