Good twist on this song!

Good history lesson. Rhymes well. Got the "wurst" at Kursk. I like that. Just noticed that the security code for the this comment is DAK (Deutsche Afrika Korps). Erwin Rommel.

Thank you, gentlemen. Hopefully, this will silence once and for all the deafening chorus of naysayers who said it'd be impossible to tell the full story of the German panzer warfare experience in WWII by means of the Bonanza theme song ;-D

Ja, Ja- 555!!! Beat me to it but you're right, during WW2 it would be PzKpfw and not postwar Kpz. But a few things historically. Germans were building tanks in Sweden and USSR in secret before the war and when they encountered the T-34 it was a shock but the Panther's requirement was already in place before 1942. The Panther (Mark V) actually came before the Tigers and is generally acknowledge as the best all-around tank of WW2 with interleaved wheels, tosion-bar suspension, well shaped hull and turret, rear engine/front drive, powerful 75mm, and good performance with a weight of 50 tons. The French had more modern tanks than the Char BI-bis encountered in 1940, but relied on outdated tactics that could not stop Guderian's Blitzkrieg (combined arms) strategy. Germans used captured French tanks for AB and other local patrol duties. The Char's weakness was its left engine venting that could be taken out very fast by small arms and flame weapons. Small numbers of the more modern S-35 were captured and used by the Germans and Italians. The French in secret designed the ARL-44 but after liberation in 1944 it did not appear in public until July 1951!!! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/ARL_44.jpg/300px-ARL_44.jpg

This is a parody worthy of Lorne Greene.

Porfle, I was considering adding another parody based on the short version of Bonanza called "Jadpanther" (which was the name of a German tank destroyer) but I only came up with one stanza -- We got a right to light up anyone who fights us; if anyone screws with a Tiger II, they gotta deal with me

CML, please see my author page for all the German tanks and other German weapons from the Franco-Prussian War to modern day. All the major panzers of WW2 are covered as well as prototypes and designs. And it's Jagdpanther (Hunting Panther)- best tank destroyer of WW2 although the Jagdtiger was larger with more powerful 128mm PAK 44 L/55 main gun and weighed 72 tons with the same Tiger Maybach HL230 P30 engine!!! Armor was superior to King Tiger up front with an amazing 10"!!! No frontal penetration possible by any tank.