Tamiya 300035009 - 1:35 WWII PzKpfw. II Ausf.F/G (5) SK.121
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In the morning of September 1, 1939, the German forces consisting of the
3 rd, 4 th, 8 th, 10 th and the 14 th Armies invaded Poland all heading for
Warsaw, its capital. This was the beginning of the 2 nd World War that
had shaken the whole world for six years and the Germans made a good
show of their war efforts at the start with this violent surprise
offensive by massed air forces and mechanized ground forces in close
co-ordination, the so-called Blitzkrieg. It was none other than the
Pzkpfw 11 that had played the key role in this Blitzkrieg which started
with the invasion of Poland to be followed by break-through of the
Maginot-line 7 months later and ended with the surrender of France.
In anticipation of the delay in production of the two main strength
tanks of the Pzkpfw III and the Pzkpfw IV then under development, the
Ordnance Department decided in 1934 to develop a new tank instead to
fill the gap. It gave specifications of the proposed new tank to the
following three companies - the Mann, the Krupp and the Henschel. The
specifications envisioned a tank weighing less than 10 tons and armed
with 2 cm and 7.92 mm machine guns, one each. Among the designs of the
rivaling three companies presented, the one by the Mann was selected and
the Mann in cooperation with the Daimler-Benz developed a first tank of
the a1 type in 1935. When 25 tanks of the same type were produced, the tank was officially named, Panzer Kampfwagen II.
After the first 25, another 25 tanks of the a2 type and 50 of the a3
type were produced in succession by 1936. Tanks of these 3 types thus
produced were equipped each with a 6-cylinder, 130HP, May-Bach HL37
engine and credited with a maximum speed of 40 km/h. However, it was
decried that the horse-power was not enough and the engine was replaced
with a May-Bach HL-62 one of 140 HP. The frontal armour, too, was
reinforced and a new t
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