Wwii vehicles

The SdKfz 251/20 was known as 'Uhu' (owl) and carried an infra-red searchlight to illuminate targets for small groups of Panther tanks at night. These variants were produced late in the war. The SdKfz 251 stands with the Panzer IV at the focal point of Wehrmacht armor. Its only rival for “best of its kind” was its US army counterpart. It was a bit of a military afterthought. German infantry had regularly ridden trucks to the combat zone during maneuvers since the Reichswehr years. In the…

World War II half-track use In America, 43,000 Half-Tracks were produced by three primary manufacturers; the largest being the White Motor Company, the original designer, with a total of 15,414 accepted by the War Department. The other manufactures, Auto Car built 12,168 and Diamond T a further 12,421. These designs were produced under license in Canada, and were widely supplied under the Lend Lease program, with 5,000 supplied to the USSR alone. The fourth manufacturer of American-made…

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In 1938, a 2cm FlaK30 was mounted on the Demag DII 3 a predecessor of the 07. The 07 was built from 1938 to 1944, by various firms, including Mechanische Werke-Cottbus, Saurer, MNH, Bussing- NAG, Adler and Demag. The Zgkw 1t was the earliest self-propelled mounting for the FlaK troops. A special superstructure with folding sides was designed to give room for all-round traverse. The original vehicles were totally unarmoured, but eventually an armoured cab was provided and an armoured shield…

The signifier of that family of weapons systems was the Panzer VI, better known as the Tiger I. The Tiger lent its aura to the whole German armored force. Even experienced British and US troops were likely to see Tigers behind every hedgerow and leading every counterattack. A cursory search turns up at least a hundred books in English, French, and German devoted to the Tiger’s origins and performance. The vehicle’s genesis can be traced to a 1935 Army Weapons Office report describing a…

Being in a war gives one license to get creative and here are the proofs --- ten vehicular oddballs birthed during the Second World War . 1: The Rhino The

The brutal reality of the Second World War has been brought to life in a series of stunning colourised images from one of the world's most devastating conflicts.

Veteran armor officer Duane Klug comments: “The halftrack is a bear to steer at low speeds, although it’s not bad once you get it moving. As long as the front