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Eventually, he gets drafted and serves as a gunner for panzer tanks and tank hunters. I'll rank this book using my usual 4-part WW2 autobiography list: 1- Tactical: Wow. This book goes into such incredible depth about the tactics of tank vs. tank gunnery that it even /5(20). The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author’s training, Panzer gunner book his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division.

Bruno Friesen served as a gunner aboard, initially Panzer IV’s, before crewing the lesser-known Japdpanzer IV tank hunter.4/5(98). The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author's training, and his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division.

As the title suggests, Bruno Friesen served as a gunner aboard, initially, Panzer IVs, before crewing the lesser-known Jagdpanzer IV tank hunter.4/4(61).

Panzer Gunner book. Read 7 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. There are few memoirs available of German Panzer crews that focus on t /5. Panzer Gunner is a unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division. Bruno Friesen explains what it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front and provides details on the Panzer gunner book performance of the Panzer IV tank.4/5(98).

The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author's training, and his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division. As the title suggests, Bruno Friesen served as a gunner aboard, initially, Panzer IVs, before crewing the lesser-known Jagdpanzer IV Author: Bruno Friesen.

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Friesen was drafted into the Wehrmacht three years later and ended up in the 7th Panzer Division. Serving as a gunner in a Panzer IV tank and then a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer, Friesen experienced intense combat against the Soviets in Romania, Lithuania, and West Prussia.

Panzer Gunner by Bruno Friesen,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide/5(). These origins are forgotten throughout the book as we experience the war through the eyes and memories of a Panzer Gunner.

Yet towards the end of the book as the war draws to a close, we are again reminded of the authors Canadian nationality and 4/5(91). The Paperback of the Panzer Gunner: A Canadian in the German 7th Panzer Division, by Bruno Friesen at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35 or Brand: Stackpole Books.

The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author's training, and his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division. As the title suggests, Bruno Friesen served as a gunner aboard, initially, Panzer IVs, before crewing the lesser-known Jagdpanzer IV /5().

The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author's training, and his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division. As the title suggests, Bruno Friesen served as a gunner aboard, initially, Panzer IVs, before crewing the lesser-known Jagdpanzer IV tank hunter.

The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author's training, and his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division. As the title suggests, Bruno Friesen served as a gunner aboard, initially, Panzer IVs, before crewing the lesser-known Jagdpanzer IV tank hunter.4/5(92).

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Panzer Gunner: A Canadian in the German 7th Panzer Division, (Stackpole Military History Series series) by Bruno Friesen.

Panzer Gunner is a unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division. Bruno Friesen explains what it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front and provides details on the battlefield performance of the Panzer IV tank.

There are few memoirs available of German Panzer crews that focus on the climactic last 12 months of the war on the Eastern Front, What makes Bruno Friesen's account virtually unique is his family background: his parents came from a German.

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Hi Guys and Ladies, I'm currently reading Bruno Friesen's "Panzer Gunner: From My Native Canada to the German Ostfront And Action with 25th Panzer Regiment, 7th Panzer Division " Herr Friesen served on both the Panzer IV and the Jagdpanzer IV, so this book promised to be a treat, if only because accounts by crew members of a Jagdpanzer IV are very rare in.

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Panzer IV tank. Six months before World War II erupted inBruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father in hopes of a better life. Friesen was drafted into the Wehrmacht three years later and ended up in the 7th Panzer Division. Serving as a gunner in a Panzer IV tank and then a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer, Friesen experienced.

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The bulk of the book is a detailed account of the author's training, and his subsequent service with 25th Panzer Regiment, part of 7th Panzer Division.

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Panzer Gunner is a unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division. Bruno Friesen explains what it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front and provides details on the battlefield performance of the Panzer IV tank.

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Six months before World War II erupted in. Panzer Gunner is a unique memoir of a Canadian serving in a German armored division. Bruno Friesen explains what it was like to fight in a tank on the Eastern Front and provides details on the battlefield performance of the Panzer IV tank.

Six months before World War II erupted inBruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father in hopes of a better life. Friesen was drafted Author: Bruno Friesen.

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Presented in typical Stackpole fashion, "Panzer Gunner" is the memoirs of a German-Canadian in the German 7th Panzer Division, on active service from to the end of the war. This was an interesting read for me, as I haven't previously read a soldier's memoir from a German perspective/5(31).

Get this from a library. Panzer gunner: a Canadian in the German 7th Panzer Division, [Bruno Friesen] -- Six months before World War II erupted, year-old Canadian Mennonite Bruno Friesen was sent to Germany by his father, who believed that the Third Reich offered a better life for his son.

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Biography Book Review: Panzer Gunner: From My Native Canada to the German Osfront and Back. In Action with 25th Panzer Regiment, 7th Panzer Division by Bruno Friesen. Michael Wittmann (22 April – 8 August ) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World is known for his ambush of elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on 13 June While in command of a Tiger I tank, Wittmann destroyed up to fourteen tanks and fifteen personnel carriers, along with two anti-tank guns, within the.The Panzerkampfwagen IV (PzKpfw IV), commonly known as the Panzer IV, was a German medium tank developed in the late s and used extensively during the Second World ordnance inventory designation was The Panzer IV was the most numerous German tank and the second-most numerous German armored fighting vehicle of the Second World War, with some 8, built.Kurt Knispel (20 September – 28 April ) was a German tank commander during World War II, notable for claiming tanks destroyed, making him the most successful fighter in armored warfare.

However this number is disputed by some historians. Knispel was severely wounded on 28 April by shrapnel to his head when his Tiger II was hit in battle with Soviet tanks and the ammunition.