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Old 04-06-2012, 06:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Legbreaker View Post
The various elements in 1990's Yugoslavia were using anything that moved, meaning the Hellcat in question may well have been the one and only. I recall T-34s and M4 Shermans were used, and "small arms" included backyard single shot rifles and bows. If it was capable of inflicting pain and death, chances are somebody was using it.
Agreed, Bosnia was a serious hodgepodge of weird equipment being used.

It included, briefly, a kinda sort functional Panther. In short, the gun and turret worked, but didn't drive. Used it as a bunker briefly till it knocked out a pair of Serb T72's (Could been the Yugo Clone, but I don't know for sure) and got all sorts of Serbian attention afterwords. The source for this was a Russian Observer who noted that 50 years later, the Panther was still giving the russians fits.
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