August 1975...My first real contact with WW2 tanks was a Panther A and T34/85 that were placed outdoors at the L'hôtel des Invalides in France. I happened to find them on a free day of my university's study tour in Europe while traveling through the center of Paris, and spent about two hours taking detailed photos of them on my own. L'hôtel des Invalides is a huge facility where Napoleon's coffin was laid to rest, and two Panther A models and a T34 were placed without fences in an open-air plaza facing a wide street. Now these three tanks have already been relocated, but the French tanks from WW2, British Matilda tanks and other exhibits are currently being set up. The production records of the versions of the V Panther and the derivative Jagdpanther are as follows. January-September 1943 production type D September 1943-July 1944 production Type A March 1944-April 1945 production Type G August 1944-January 1945 production Type F V derivative tank destroyer Jagdpanther January 1944-April 1945Production