CzechoslovakArmoured Fighting
Ve
hicles
1S18-1945
Development
for
Czechoslovakia
Exploitation
by
Germany
Charles
K.
Kli
me
nt
and
Hilary
LouisDoyle
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BELLONA PUBLICA TlONS
ARGUS BOOKS LTD, ARGUS HOUSE, 14 ST JAMES RD., WATFORD, HERTS.
Text
©
1979
Charles
K.
Kliment and Hilary Louis Doyle
©
Argus
Books
Ltd. 1979 Drawing
©
Hilary Louis Doyle
1979
I.S.B.N. 085242628 3
First published 1979All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored
in
aretrieval system,
or
transmitted,
in
any form
or
by
any means, electronic, mechanical,recording
or
by photocopying without the prior permission
of
Argus
Books
Ltd.
FRONT COVER: L T vz
35
tanks
of
the
Czech
Army.
The
three-man
crew wore
one-pice overalls
over
regular
uniforms
.The
licence
number
plates on
front
of
the
vehicles
are clearly
viSible.
BACK
COVER:The
first
of
the
pz
Kpfw
35(t)
impressed
into
German service (Bundesarchiv)
.
Typese
t
by
Inforum
Ltd.,
Portsmouth
Printed in Great Britain
by
A. Wheaton
&
Co., Ltd.,
Exeter
Int
ro
duction
I I
II
S
wo
rk
presents
the history,
development and
war-time use
of
armoured
ilj"
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vehicles
of
Czechoslovak construction
and manufacture both
as
I
II
...
dl
y
and
withasmuch
detail
as possible. Czech
armoured
vehicles
were
"I
11I,)gl"
cssive construction.
They
were
exported
to many
countriesand
I
d
1\
1"
.1
~
11l
important role
in
World War
2, expecially in
the firsttwo
years.I
WI)
yf
t
he
Czech tanks
were
actually
manufactured throughout the war
\'
1\",
.
CKO's
TNH
P-S
tank
first as PzKpfw
38
(t), later, when
no
longer
II
111\
'
i,
'llt
asa gun
tank, became the
basis for
many
self-propelled guns
and
..
1.ll('
l"c
u
onJong
afterthe war
asa
tankhunterandarmouredpersonnel
,
1111("1.
T
he Skoda
T-22
tank
was
manufactured
under
licence in
Hungary
1111111
11)
44.
Use
was
not
limited to the
Wehrmacht,
besides
Germany,
Czech
I
IIlk\
w
ere
used by the armies
of
Bulgaria,
Ethiopia
,
Hungary
,
Iran
,
Peru
,u,
1I1\;
1I
1ia, Slovakia,Sweden, Switzerland
and
Yugoslavia.Il
lll
Ug
h
the
units
of
the Czechoslovak
Army
in exile were fighting with
the
\
111\
's
inthe Middle
Eastand
Russia, Czech tanks
andarmoured
fighting\'
1t
1"!c
Swere fighting for the
Germans
and their
Axis
partners. Only
latein111
1,
afterthe
volte-face
of theRomanian
army
andthe
Slovak uprising,
\I
\
'
I,'
[h
e
j
used
on
the Allied side.
Acknowledgements
I'lte
authors and
publishers wish to
thank the
followingforassistance in
the
jllO
duction
of
this book:
Mr
Tom Jentz
for his invaluable help in
research;
lit
e
Bundesarchiv,
Koblenz
;
the
Swedish
Armour
Association
and
ECPA.
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