Pz.754(r)

Tank KV-2 from the Pz Abt zBV-66. Pz Abt zBV-66 was formed for the cancelled landing operation on Malta. It had many uncommon AFVs: PzKpfw-IF, PzKfw-IJ, PzKfw-IIF2 with 80mm frontal armour, KV's and T-34s (rare side of one T-34 can be seen on lower shot). Later those tanks were transmitted into the 12nd Panzer Division and were utilised in Demyansk region in 1942. No Russian tanks went from zbv 66 to Panzer Division 12. The T-34/M41 of zbv 66 were the ones transferred to ski jaeger div 1. 1941 in German service used for defence of the Krupp works in Essen against advancing American tanks. April 1945.