Panzer IV "Wirbelwind" - Buy 2 Get 1 Free! Crusader The LVT has its origins

The LVT has its origins in a civilian rescue vehicle called the Alligator

believing it offered insufficient ground clearance for their needs

with 18 shells stored in so called “wet containers” located in hull fuel tanks

There was a widespread shortage of vehicles of all sizes which became more acute when the Army was mobilised for war

the spare wheel was moved outside of the car body

Panzer IV "Wirbelwind" - Buy 2 Get 1 Free! Crusader The LVT has its originsThe Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind (Whirlwind in English) was a German self propelled anti aircraft gun based on the Panzer IV tank. It was developed in 1944 as a successor to the earlier Mbelwagen self propelled anti aircraft gun. In the first years of World War II, the German military forces had less interest in developing self propelled anti aircraft guns, but as the Allies began to gain air superiority the need for more mobile and better armed self