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[[caption-width-right:1000:Above: ''Anime/{{Anne of Green Gables|1979}}'' (1979)\\
Below: ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' (2010)]]

* "I came, I saw, I shot" is inspired by the famous quote of UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar.
* The birthdays of the members of Team Anglerfish are all dates for WWII battles:
** Miho = Operation Lightfoot (Second Battle of El Alamein, 23 October 1942)
** Saori = Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941)
** Hana = Operation Wacht am Rhein (Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944)
** Yukari = Operation Overlord (D-Day, Allied invasion of occupied France, 6 June 1944)
** Mako = Operation Fall Weiss (Case White, German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939)
* In episode 2, when visiting the tank supply store, Yukari plays a VideoGame/Battlezone1980 arcade cabinet. Fitting, as it, a tank game, is the ultimate ancestor of every FirstPersonShooter ever made.
* I episide three, one of the items making the Panzer IV more comfortable is a big stuffed [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Gekota]].
* One of the posters in Yukari's room in episode 5 shows a male Wehrmacht tank commander (Captain Ernst von Bauer) in realistic art style. This particular image is from the manga ''Black Knight Story'' by Motofumi Kobayashi of ''Manga/ApocalypseMeow'' fame. Earlier, there's also a poster for his manga ''Happy Tiger''.
* From the same room, another poster can be seen, referring to the C82 doujin titled ''Panther Details'' by doujin circle EXCEL, which itself is a ''sequel'' of a '''parody''' of ''Black Knight Story'', titled ''Shima-Kishi Monogatari''.
* Yukari's hasty alias "Sergeant Oddball" is a reference to the war movie ''Film/KellysHeroes'', which features the namesake character played by Donald Sutherland.
** Subtly Lampshaded in-universe as, while Alisa and Naomi yell for someone to apprehend Yukari, Kay immediately [[ActuallyPrettyFunny bursts out in laughter]] upon hearing it.
** Later, there is an extended ShoutOut to that movie as Yukari climbs a bell tower to get a good sight of Pravda's positions. She doesn't sound the bell, though.
** An entire scene from the movie is presented in episode 10 being watched by the Rabbit team. (Specifically, the part where [[spoiler:Oddball's tank ambushes a Tiger tank (forgetting they still had a paint round loaded) and are saved from the retaliatory shot due to the narrow alley preventing the turret from turning enough]].) It's also {{Foreshadowing}}.
** In episode 12, Rabbit Team carries out a similar ambush on the enemy Elefant tank destroyer, though being a tank destroyer it has no turret, instead the hull hits the buildings on either side.
** Saunder's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBFryJuYDlcBattle Hymn of the Republic]] is possibly another [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-IatwoA00E0#t=413 Kelly's Heroes]] shout out.
* Kay may be named after Douglas Kay, a British WWII veteran and Sherman Firefly ace, who took part in the D-Day landings and wrote a history of armored warfare.
* The St. Gloriana girls are seen with a pink Land Rover Series [=IIA=], in the "[[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Pink Panther]]" scheme used by the SAS in Oman.
* Momo's "Shoot, shoot, shoot till you drop" line in episode 5 appears to be a small nod to a somewhat obscure OVA called ''Labyrinth of Flames'' and a [[https://youtu.be/RMMiauoBOAc?t=25 particularly memorable scene]] involving a tank.
* A cover from Takeshi Nogami and Tamura Naoya's ''Manga/MoeyoSenshaGakkou'' is seen on the wall of the tank café in episode 5. One of the freshman girls is seen reading a volume of this series back in episode 2. Anzu is also seen holding a copy while Hetzer Trolling Kuromorimine.
* Episode 7 has brief shout outs to Generals Bernard Montgomery and Heinz Guderian. Yukari prefers the latter.
* The team name (Wild Duck/Mallard) for the B1 bis. All the prewar French tanks are nicknamed 'ducks' in ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks'' for their shape.
* When Pravda asks Ōarai to surrender in episode 8, Momo yells "[[GratuitousEnglish NUTS]]!", which was General [=McAuliffe=]'s response when the Germans asked him to surrender during the siege of Bastogne.
** Long before that, as Sodoko was (hopelessly) berating the rest of the team for "not following school regulations", Erwin confronts her, surprisingly, with a ''Music/BonJovi'' line:
--->'''Erwin:''' It's my life. It's now or never...
* The History Club makes numerous references to various historical battles, like Stalingrad. Let's not forget their outfits either, with Erwin wearing a surprisingly faithful duplicate of Erwin Rommel's Schirmmutze hat.
* The City Ships are modeled (mostly) after WWII aircraft carriers. OVA 3 shows several more, detailed in the ShownTheirWork entry.
* Nekota mentions she and the other girls on her team met in an [[VideoGame/WorldOfTanks Online Tank Game]]. Some early subs went ahead and stated the obvious.
* The hex grid used for the audience's map display strongly resembles the interface for VideoGame/{{Steel Panthers}}.
* A member of the Volleyball club [[Anime/GunBuster is named Noriko, and they wear white and red uniforms]].
* OVA 2 has a tribute to Creator/MontyPython's [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/02/26/video-girls-und-spamzer SPAM sketch]].
* The [[spoiler:Type 3 Chi-Nu]] found at the parking lot looks exactly like the real one located at the JGSDF Ordnance School in Tsuchiura, Japan, with the metal roof and all.
* Miho and Anzu all but outright invoke ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfTanks "Hetzers Gonna Hetz"]]''.
-->'''Anzu:''' Nishizumi-chan, you want us to do ''that''?
-->'''Miho:''' Yes! Commence Operation Baiter.[[note]]"Hetzer" has been variously translated as "baiter", "harasser" or "troublemaker"[[/note]]
-->'''Anzu:''' Ready?
-->'''Yuzu:''' Yes!
-->'''Momo:''' Yes!
-->'''Anzu:''' Gonna Bait!
* The bridge they cross ''once'' in episode 11 is labeled as "Remagen Bridge", a reference to both the eponymous movie and the actual battle. Just like its namesake, it collapses after they pass.
** The actual destruction of the bridge is a HomageShot to one from ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind''.
** Said movie was also one of the cases shown while the First Year team is having a movie night (Battle of the Bulge is another).
* In "Das Finale" the team crosses ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai''. Though, since they are facing a French team, it might be better called "The Bridge Over the River Kwai".
* One of the OST tracks is called ''[[Franchise/StarWars "I have a bad feeling about this!"]]''
* The urban area in episode 11 and 12 has apartment units similar to those of Kadykchan, a Russian ghost town in the Susumansky District of Magadan Oblast. [[note]]Built by GULAG prisoners during the late stages of World War II, the city was home to coal miners, but by 2010, the lack of demand for coal led to the complete depopulation of the town. [[spoiler:This is the official story, of course: some parties believe that the Siberian winter took its toll on the aging town, and survivors were evacuated by the Russian military.]][[/note]]
* Maho's personal Tiger in the final match has the same number (212) atributed to Michael Wittmann's Tiger during the Battle of Villers-Bocage.
** Miho's personal Tiger during the previous final tournament match is numbered 217, same as Otto Carius' Tiger.
* Ankou Team's "Panzer 5" role call routine in OVA 6 is a wholesale rip of [[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Dairanger's]].
* In OVA 1, one of the Rabbit Team girls wears a squid shaped hat. This is likely a shout out to director Tsutomu Mizushima's earlier series ''Manga/SquidGirl''.
* After the final battle, all the spectators [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion start clapping and say, "congratulations"]].
* During Rabbit Team's card game in episode 4, the Queen cards bear a striking resemblance to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum the British Panjandrum]].
* In the Anzio OVA, Anchovy mentions a "Shimada-style" school of Sensha-do, a likely nod to [=GuP=] character designer Humikane Shimada, who's also best known for his designs in Strike Witches.
** [[spoiler:In the movie, we see the Shimada school in action, and they're no pushovers.]]
* The chase sequence between Duck Team and the Carro Veloce tankettes look like a homage to the one on ''[[Anime/LupinIII Lupin III in The Castle of Cagliostro]]'' (Comparison shot [[http://i.imgur.com/rpUGm3o.jpg here]])
* That face-off between Hippo team's [=StuG III=] and Carpaccio's Semovente? [[http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/eARMOR/content/issues/1993/JAN_FEB/ArmorJanuaryFebruary1993web.pdf Based upon a true tale]]
* In what doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, Ribbon Warrior shows us that Saunders used to have an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M22_Locust M22 "Locust"]], but when Arisa wants to use it she learns they had ''lend-leased it to someone else''. The American-designed Locust only saw service in British usage.
** Said Locusts then appear being air-dropped from Hamilcar gliders, as they were in Operation Varsity (only time they saw combat), under the name of "Flying Tankers: Volunteer Tankathlon Group" and sporting ''tiger''-face paint jobs - a blatant reference to the shark-face paint jobs of the "Flying ''Tigers''" Volunteer Aviators Group.
*** And said tiger-face paint job is very similar to a moefied version of the tiger face paint jobs that some US tanks got in the Korea war for morale purposes.
* In the movie ''Girls und Panzer der Film'':
** Saki is often distracted by a butterfly. [=ChouCho=], the stage name of the artist who performed the theme song for both the series and film, means "butterfly".
** The Rabbit Team performs ''"Operation Mifune"'', which involves shooting down a ferris wheel to make it roll and disrupt their opponent's encirclement. The name refers to the character Toshiro Mifune from the Creator/StevenSpielberg movie ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979'', who also used a similar stunt with a ferris wheel in the movie. Said film in fact was the one Rabbit Team is shown watching during their pre-match preparations.
** The poem that Darjeeling uses [[spoiler: to call the other schools to help Ooarai in their match against the University Team]] is the same that the BBC broadcasted in June 1944 to announce to the European resistance that the invasion would begin within the next 48 hours. [[note]]At least according to a misconception popularized by ''Film/TheLongestDay''. Still, it is awesome.[[/note]]
** The [[spoiler: T28 Super-Heavy]] blows off its side armor and outer tracks in order to fit through a narrow alley. This is similar to something Franchise/{{Batman}} does with the Batmobile in ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
** The Hippo Team girls are seen playing a video game the night before the big match that ''could'' be a reference to the ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'' series.
* In prequel spin-off manga ''Saga of Pravda'', St. Gloriana's previous commander, Earl Grey, is cosplaying as a [[Film/KingsmanTheSecretService Kingsman]] agent as her EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* The anime itself received an extensive shout out in episode 6 of ''Anime/AnimeGataris'', when that anime's character visit Ooarai.
* The ''Ribbon Warrior'' spin-off manga has a habit of inserting characters from other popular manga, anime, etc. as spectators of the various tank matches. These include: %% There are a lot of cameos, but since they aren't named, I can only identify the ones I personally recognize or can narrow down somehow - expanding this list with chapters and page numbers would be appreciated.
** Rin, Nadeshiko and Aoi from ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'' (Chapter 37, page 5; Chapter 38, page 23)
** Seras Victoria from ''{{Manga/Hellsing}}'' (Chapter 43, page 30)
** Kaguya from ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' (Chapter 45, page 15)
** Hotaru from ''Manga/DagashiKashi'' (Chapter 48, page 29)
** Hibiki and Akemi from ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' (Chapter 49, page 14)
** Reisalin Stout from ''VideoGame/AtelierRyzaEverDarknessAndTheSecretHideout'' (Chapter 50, page 2)
** Pyra from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' (Chapter 50, page 2)
** Midori, Sayaka and Tsubame from ''Manga/KeepYourHandsOffEizouken'' (Chapter 53, page 35)
** ''Literature/KonoSuba'':
*** Kazuma and Megumin (Chapter 57, page 19)
*** Aqua (Chapter 61, page 8)
** ''{{WebAnimation/Hololive}}'':
*** Uruha Rushia (Chapter 57, page 19)
*** Houshou Marine (Chapter 57, page 30; Chapter 61, pages 11 and 16)
*** Kiryu Coco (Chapter 59, page 2; Chapter 61, pages 11 and 16)
*** Gawr Gura and Ninomae Ina'nis (Chapter 60, page 19)
*** Akai Haato/Haachama (Chapter 61, page 11)
*** Amane Kanata (Chapter 61, page 16)
** 2B from ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' (Chapter 59, page 2)
** Ishtar from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' (Chapter 61, page 8)
** Revy and Balalaika from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' (Chapter 61, page 30)
** [=HK416=], P90 and [=UMP45=] from ''VideoGame/GirlsFrontline'' (Chapter 61, page 29)
** Amber and Oleo, two students from the [[MooseAndMapleSyrup Canadian-themed]] Maple High School, are respectively based on Anne Shirley and Diana Barry from [[Anime/AnneOfGreenGables1979 the 1979 anime adaptation]] of ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables''.

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