German Armour at Petawawa

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There was one mentioned on the AFV News Forum. I shared it with Ed a month or so ago. The posting is repeated verbatim from Pierre Olivier:

' Vytas Boyev sent me this email some days ago :
"Back in 1991, my National Guard unit was conducting a jump wing exchange exercise with the Canadian army (the Queens Own Rifles airborne company) in Petawawa, Canada.

My unit jumped on a drop zone, that was next to the TOW/anti-tank range. The jumpmaster that dropped us badly miscalculated, and we were dropped on the live fire range.

After I landed, I stood up and was facing the unmistakable glacis plate of a Panther, about 50 feet away from where I landed. It was badly damaged from being used as a training target, and I was excited to see such a sight, as sad as it was in its condition (I was even more miffed that somehow, I did not see the panther on the way down)." '

Ed Storey replied to me that he remembered seeing fleeting glimpses of those shapes in 1979 when doing heliborne inserts near the TOW Antitank range.