HOW TO DESTROY GERMAN TANKS WWII WAR DEPARTMENT TRAINING FILM 25804

This War Department training film (TF 181116) shows the secondary weapons that a tankhunting team uses to destroy tanks as well as ambush methods that assist in destroying enemy tanks. The film features what appears to be a captured Polish 7TP light tank used by the Panzerwaffe. The tank moves over a small gully and through trees (00:47). The film shows inside the tank and the view through the window slits (01:12). The tanks turret revolves around. An illustration is used to show the dead space where a tank cannot fire (02:58), giving tank hunters safe zones. The film then shows the vulnerable spots on a tank, including the exposed windows in the front of the tank, periscope, turret, turret rings, tracks, idlers, and wheels U. S. soldiers get out of a jeep (04:58); viewers see the weapons they use to hunt tanks: antitank mines, smoke grenades, and rocket grenades with a rocket launcher. The men sight in their carbines. One of them carries the rocket launcher; he shoots a piece of steel with