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Western Desert 1942 - Axis armour |
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images on this page courtesy of the Upwey RSL. I posted these pages on July 9th 2002. By the next day the faithful members of the Maple Leaf UP forum had managed to identify many of these images. My thanks go to Hanno Spoelstra, Darrell Zinck, Martin IJdo, Wayne Henderson and others who have helped. |
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the F60L in the background. The tank is a Marder III Ausf H (Sd.Kfz 138) or 7.5cm PaK40/3 auf PzKpfw38(t) Ausf H |
Marder III Ausf H (Sd.Kfz 138) 7.5cm PaK40/3 auf PzKpfw38(t) Ausf H Martin IJdo adds: " This vehicle in itself is not very special, but the chassis is. This was originally the Czech 38T tank. These tanks where captured factory fresh when invading Czechoslovakia in '39. It turned out that these tanks where a lot better than the German armour, espescially whwn it came to reliability. They subsequently used them in large numbers during the invasion of the Low countries and France in '40. The chassis was used for a large number of different purposes, and ended it's carreer with the superb "Hetzer" tankdestroyer, widely used in the German army during the second half of the war. " |
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| Base depot. Martin observes the Kettenkrad on the left. | PzKpfw III - Panzerkampfwagen Mark III | ||
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| PzKpfw III - Panzerkampfwagen Mark III | SdKfz 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half track. Thanks, Hanno... Darrell Zinck adds: "More officially it is a Stutzenpanzerwagen SdKf 251/1 Ausf C. Basically there were only four Ausfahrungs (marks) but each had about 23 variants. The 1/ identifies it as a straight APC and the Ausf C means it was the third model with improved front armour and welded hull. These vehicles were the most numerous of all German armoured vehicles with some 15,250 produced. The Czechs even continued to make them after the war as OT-810s." | ||
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| PzKpfw III - Panzerkampfwagen Mark III | PzKpfw III - Panzerkampfwagen Mark IV with 75mm gun. Looks like British Ford truck in the background. | ||
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