Editing Panzerfaust (section)

=== Other countries ===
Many {{lang|de|Panzerfäuste}} were sold to Finland, which urgently needed them, as Finnish forces did not have enough anti-tank weapons that could penetrate heavily armoured Soviet tanks like the [[T-34]] and [[IS-2]]. The Finnish experience with the weapon and its adaptability to Finnish needs was mixed, with only 4,000 of 25,000 {{lang|de|Panzerfäuste}} delivered expended in combat.<ref>
{{cite book
| last1 = Jowett
| first1 = Philip S.
| last2 = Snodgrass
| first2 = Brent (Illustrator)
| last3 = Ruggeri
| first3 = Raffaele (Illustrator)
| editor = Martin Windrow
|date=July 2006
| title = Finland at War, 1939–45
| publisher = [[Osprey Publishing]]
| location = Oxford
| page = 56
| isbn = 978-1-84176-969-1
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=p58vtOKyVy8C
| lccn = 2006286373 
}}</ref> The manual that came with the weapon upon delivery to the Finns included depictions of where to aim the weapon on the Soviet T-34 and US [[Sherman tank]] (which also saw service with Soviet troops from US Lend-Lease-supplied stocks).{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

The [[Italian Social Republic]] (RSI) and the [[Government of National Unity (Hungary)]] also used the {{lang|de|Panzerfaust}}. Several RSI army units became skilled in anti-tank warfare and the Hungarians themselves used the {{lang|de|Panzerfaust}} extensively, especially during the [[Siege of Budapest]]. During this brutal siege, an arms factory, the Hungarian Manfred Weiss Steel and Metal Works, located on [[Csepel Island]] (within the city) kept up production of various light armaments and ammunition, {{lang|de|Panzerfäuste}} included, all the way until the very last moment, when attacking Soviet troops seized the factory by the first days of 1945.

The US [[82nd Airborne Division]] captured some {{lang|de|Panzerfäuste}} in the [[Allied invasion of Sicily]] and later during the fighting in Normandy. Finding them more effective than their own bazookas, they held onto them and used them during the later stages of the French Campaign, even dropping with them into the Netherlands during [[Operation Market Garden]]. They captured an ammunition dump of {{lang|de|Panzerfäuste}} near [[Nijmegen]] and used them through the [[Ardennes Offensive]] toward the end of the war.<ref name="courage">''More Than Courage: Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Anzio, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace ...'', Phil Nordyke, p. 299</ref>

The Soviet [[Red Army]] only incidentally used captured {{lang|de|Panzerfäuste}} in 1944, but from the beginning of 1945, many became available and were actively used during the Soviet offensives of 1945, mostly in street fighting against buildings and protective covers.<ref name="perzyk1"/> In February 1945, such use of captured {{lang|de|Panzerfäuste}} was recommended in a directive by Marshal [[Georgy Zhukov]].<ref name="perzyk1"/> Similarly, they were used by the [[Polish People's Army]].<ref name=perzyk1/> After the war, some 4,000 {{lang|de|Panzerfäuste}} were adopted by the Polish Army in 1949, which designated them as PG-49.<ref name=perzyk1/>

Plans and technical materials on the Panzerfaust were supplied to the [[Empire of Japan]] to assist with their development of an effective anti-tank weapon. However, the Japanese went with a different design, the Type 4, loosely based upon the American bazooka. Examples of the American weapon were captured by the Japanese at [[Battle of Leyte|Leyte]] in 1944.<ref>{{cite book|title=Panzerfaust and Panzerschreck|author=Gordon L. Rottman|year=2014|isbn=978-1782007883|publisher=Osprey Publishing|pages=72–73}}</ref>