This 1,5 ton armored housing for a 45 mm antitank gun is stepped to reduce damage from ricochets and is a fine example of good quality craftsmanship. Some of them, still covered in their factory grease, might be quite usable even today – not bad at all for a Soviet-made thing. No wonder then that many of them were “gently” extracted by the Germans who happily reused the precious metal for their Atlantic Wall defences.

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Make:	PENTAX
Model:	PENTAX K200D
Exposure:	0.022 sec (1/45)
Aperture:	f/6.7
ISO Speed:	100
Focal Length:	23 mm