World War 2 Photos: Destroyed by an internal explosion of ammunition, the German PzKpfw III tank from the 203 Panzer Regiment of the Nazi Wehrmacht in Soviet Russia. The Eastern Front.
Panzerkampfwagen III is a German medium tank of the Second World War, serially produced in Third Reich from 1938 to 1943. The abbreviated names of this tank were PzKpfw III tank, Panzer III, Pz III. In the departmental head of military equipment of Nazi Germany, this tank was designated Sd.Kfz. 141 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 141 – special purpose vehicle 141).