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Fighting Vehicles of World War II, Volume 1

edited by Ray Merriam

A Merriam Press Original Publication

Military Photo Album MPA1

A selection of 224 B&W photos of American, British, Canadian, German, Soviet and French fighting vehicles of World War II.

Specifications

Second Edition (February 2009)
226 7.5x7.5-inch pages
224 B&W photos

Captions

The captions for each photo:

Double trouble for the Germans comes in the form of twin bazookas mounted on a .50-caliber machine gun mount, which can be completely traversed.
Although only two men are shown in the jeep, a third is present to load the projectiles while the unit is in actual operation. Shown, left to right, are T/5 Louis Gergye and Pvt. William R. Jump, I&R Platoon, 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, 12 January 1945.
American 75mm Gun Motor Carriage M3, with front and side-door screens raised.
American jeep, trucks and a half-track moving up a muddy road Hürtgen Forest near Vossenack, Germany.
Light Armored Car M8 of a reconnaissance unit stops during its drive through Belgium toward the border of the Netherlands.
Armored Car M8 with infantryman enters Bonn, Germany, 13 April 1945.
Medium Tank (M3) “Grant” with the turret designed for British service, 15 July 1941.
The 1,000th M3 Light Tank manufactured by American Car and Foundry Company, Berwick, Pennsylvania.
General George S. Patton, Jr., alongside an M3 Light Tank, Desert Training Center, California.
Vehicles of the 4th Armored Division, led by an M5 Light Tank, advance towards Bastogne, Belgium, December 1944.
Light Tank M5 undergoing engine change in field during maneuvers in Tennessee.
Light Tank M5 undergoing engine change in field during maneuvers in Tennessee. Note the camouflage overalls worn by one of the tankers.
Light Tank M5A1, General Motors Proving Ground, 14 June 1943.
Light Tank M5A1, General Motors Proving Ground, 14 June 1943.
Light Tank M5A1, 714th Tank Battalion, 12th Armored Division, with several German POWs.
Light Tank M5A1, “Dingbat”, knocked out. Note turret upside in stream behind vehicle.
During the fighting in Normandy armored vehicles found the hedgerows a serious obstacle which they could neither cross over nor break through. An enlisted man of an Ordnance unit in Normandy devised the method of attaching to the front of tanks rake-like cutters improvised from heavy angle-iron salvaged from the underwater beach obstacles which the Germans had placed to wreck landing craft. During a period of 48 hours maintenance companies of the Ordnance Department turned out 300 of these cutters, which enabled the tanks to open passageways through the hedgerows of Normandy, and play an important part in the advance leading to the breakthrough at Saint-Lo. Ordnance men cutting angle-iron with acetylene torches.
An M5 light tank equipped with a hedgerow cutter.
Medium Tank M4A3 undergoing engine repair during Tennessee maneuvers.
Medium Tank M4A3 undergoing engine change during Tennessee maneuvers.
American M4 Medium Tanks enter Palermo, Sicily.
Medium Tank M4, Company I, 32nd Armored Regiment, firing support mission, near Vicht, Germany, 17 November 1944.
Repairing the track of an M4 medium tank, Alsdorf Germany, 15 October 1944.
Various models of M4 medium tanks waiting to cross the Rhine, 30 March 1945.
An M4A3E2 “Jumbo” medium tank (left foreground), M32 tank recovery vehicle (middle right), and (to the right and slightly behind it) an M4 (105mm) medium tank, on the dock at Cherbourg, France, having just been delivered by ship and being prepared for issue to American units in the field. Various other M4 medium tanks can be seen in the background.
An armored bulldozer is used to build a horseshoe-shaped embankment to protect the Piper L-4 Grasshopper observation plane, Puffendorf, Germany, 6 December 1944. The aircraft retains the Normandy invasion stripes on the fuselage and “40-L” codes. The original photograph caption states this was a plane of the 92nd Field Artillery Battalion, Ninth Army. One source indicates that the “40” code may have been assigned to the 16th Armored Division’s observation planes, which was a part of the Twelfth Army Group. Camouflage netting has been thrown over the rear fuselage in an attempt to reduce the visibility of the markings. Thus the M4 medium tank (W-3039940 S) seen at lower right may be from that division. The vehicle has track extenders (“grousers”), almost a necessity considering the muddy condition of the field.
American M4 Medium Tank, jeeps and half-tracks at Kasserine Pass, North Africa.
Medium Tank M4A1 landing in Sicily, 10 July 1943.
Medium Tank M4 with improvised support for 75mm gun barrel, seen on vehicle returned to the Chrysler Ordnance Plant, Evansville, for repair, 20 October 1944.
Medium Tank M4 missing gun barrel and bow machine gun, seen on vehicle returned to Chrysler Ordnance Plant, Evansville, for repair, 20 October 1944.
Knocked out Medium Tank M4. Note rear idler and section of track blown off.
Rear view of same knocked out Medium Tank M4. Note rear idler and section of track blown off.
105mm Medium Tank M4, Holzhammer, Germany, 22 April 1945.
Medium Tank M4A1, 13th Tank Battalion, 1st Armored Division, attached to the 10th Mountain Division, Fifth U.S. Army, Verona, Italy, 26 April 1945.
Medium Tank M4 knocked out and burning during street fighting.
Medium Tank M4 being loaded onto an LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized) for the Rhine crossing.
Medium Tank M4 on its way to crossing the Roer River over a treadway bridge moves past trucks loaded with infantry, Linnich, Germany, 24 February 1945.
Medium Tank M4A1, equipped with a hedgerow cutter, breaking through a hedgerow.
Medium Tank M4 of a French armored unit accompanied by French infantry, Colmar.
Medium Tank M4 passes surrendering Germans on the Autobahn.
76mm (W) Medium Tank M4A2, General Motors Proving Ground, 26 October 1944.
76mm (W) Medium Tank M4A2, General Motors Proving Ground, 26 October 1944.
A Duplex-Drive Tank (DD tank), with its flotation device raised, entering the water. The canvas flotation device made the tank vulnerable to mines and objects floating in the water.
A Duplex-Drive Tank (DD tank), flotation device after being lowered.
Mine Exploder T1E3 attached to a medium tank. This model was an improvement over the earlier one because of its chain-driven exploder disks. On the first models the exploder disks rolled freely and were not power driven. The new model also had a higher degree of indestructibility and greater maneuverability and could be driven in mud eighteen inches deep and across broken terrain. The T1E3 could be driven across a Class 70 military bridge.
M4A1 tank dozer, Arnould, France, 23 November 1944.
M4A1 tank dozer after striking a mine, 19 November 1944.
Four M4 medium tanks mounting T24 rocket launchers, Koperich, Germany, 21 February 1945
M4 medium tanks of the Seventh Army move along a bomb-cratered and rumble-strewn street, Schweinfurt, Germany, 11 April 1945, watched by liberated Russian slave laborers.
76mm (W) Medium Tank M4A3, General Motors Proving Ground, 20 June 1944.
76mm (W) Medium Tank M4A3, General Motors Proving Ground, 20 June 1944.
American M10 gun motor carriages in Tunisia. The complete absence of stowage suggests that the vehicles are in transit to join their battalions; the undamaged condition of the sand shields would support this view. Note tank crash helmets, later generally replaced for crews of open vehicles by steel helmets.
3-inch Gun Motor Carriages M10 move up in the Hürtgen Forest area.
Advancing infantrymen ride on a 3-inch gun motor carriage M10.
M10 gun motor carriages receiving maintenance, eastern France, 18 April 1945.
76mm Gun Motor Carriage T70 (prototype of the M18 GMC “Hellcat”), General Motors Proving Ground, 23 December 1943.
76mm Gun Motor Carriage T70 (prototype of the M18 GMC “Hellcat”), General Motors Proving Ground, 23 December 1943.
105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7, “Finalist”.
105mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 loading onto an M19 Tank Transporter for transport from the Mannheim area, Germany, 14 May 1945.
155mm Gun Motor Carriage M12, General Motors Proving Ground, 8 November 1942.
155mm Gun Motor Carriage M12, General Motors Proving Ground, 8 November 1942.
DUKW loaded with Marines, ammunition and 105mm gun comes ashore during practice landing, Pavuvu, Russell Island, July 1944.
Marines unloading the cargo from a swamped DUKW on the beach on Iwo Jima while a Caterpillar tractor waits to tow the vehicle onto dry land.
Truck, amphibian, ¼-ton 4x4, a.k.a., the amphibious jeep.
Landing Vehicle, Tracked (LVT), being offloaded from a Tank Transporter M19 in preparation for the Rhine crossing, Rheinberg, Germany, 20 March 1945.
LVT-1, right side (1941). The first military model. Traveling at a respectable six knots in the water and 12 mph on land, it could deliver 24 fully-equipped assault troops to the beach, and supply supporting fire from two .30-cal. machine guns. San Diego, California, 1942.
LVT-1, front. The vehicle was not armored and its steel hull offered virtually no protection, although prior to the Tarawa landing some vehicles received 9mm cab armor. Tracks performed well on sand, but not on tough surfaces. Proper maintenance of the new machine was often an issue, as few Marines were trained to work on it, and early models suffered frequent breakdowns. Note the barrage balloons in the background. San Diego, California, 1942.
LVT-1, rear, San Diego, California, 1942. 1,225 units produced.
LVT-1, left side, mounting two .30 caliber and one .50 caliber machine guns, San Diego, California, 1942.
LVT-1, right side. Photo claims to have been taken in 1946, possibly in use by a civilian (logging?) firm.
LVT-1 with an experimental mounting of a 75mm pack howitzer, San Diego, California, 1942.
Comparison of three LVT models, 14 March 1944 (left to right): the LVT(A)-1 (1942, ‘A’ stands for armored. Based on the LVT-2, this fire support version had an armored (6 to 12mm) hull. It was fitted with a turret nearly identical to that of the Light Tank M3, with a 37mm Gun M6 in mount M44, and also carried two rear-mounted machine guns. 510 units produced); the LVT-2, and the Borg Warner Model B.
Comparison of three LVT models, 14 March 1944 (left to right): The LVT(A)-1 tank mounting the turret from the Light Tank M3 with a 37mm gun; the LVT-2, and the Borg Warner Model B, which became the LVT-3 Bushmaster (1944). Developed by the Borg Warner Corporation, this vehicle had engines moved to sponsons and a ramp installed in the rear similarly to the LVT-4. Some received armor kits. First used in Okinawa in April 1945. 2,964 units produced.
Right side view of the LVT(A)-4 tank mounting the turret from the Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 with a 75mm howitzer. March 1944. Another fire support version, with 75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 turret armed with a 75mm howitzer, in some cases replaced with the Canadian Ronson flamethrower.
Upper view of the LVT(A)-4 tank mounting the turret from the Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 with a 75mm howitzer. March 1944. A single .50-cal. machine gun was installed on the ring mount above the turret rear. In the late production vehicles the heavy machine gun was replaced with two M1919A4 .30-cal. machine guns on pintle mounts and one more in the bow mount. 1,890 units produced.
M36 (T71) Gun Motor Carriage, 90mm, Aberdeen Proving Ground, 30 June 1944.
Knocked out 75mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 being retrieved by wrecker.
76mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8, General Motors Proving Ground, 4 November 1943.
76mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M8, General Motors Proving Ground, 4 November 1943.
Medium High-Speed Tractor M4, General Motors Proving Ground, 6 January 1944.
Medium High-Speed Tractor M4, General Motors Proving Ground, 6 January 1944.
High-Speed Tractor M4 towing 155mm Gun, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 10 December 1943.
Prime Mover M33 towing barrel for 8-inch Howitzer.
Line up of 1½-ton trucks with trailers of the 41st Infantry Division at its camp in Florida, circa 1941. Note the semi-gloss paint, the chromed door handles and headlight rims, and the regimental distinctive insignia on the door.
Line up of 1½-ton trucks with trailers of the 41st Infantry Division at its camp in Florida in 1941. The first vehicle is an earlier model in semi-gloss paint with the regimental d.i. on the door, similar to the vehicles in the previous photo. The rest of the vehicles are current models with a matte paint finish.
Line up of cargo trucks of 41st Infantry Division at its base in Florida, circa 1941.
Dodge Command and Reconnaissance car.
British Churchill infantry tanks move along a road in Holland.
British Churchill infantry tanks move along a road in Holland, past a British Army MP giving the American troops riding on the tanks the “OK” sign as they wave back to him. This vehicle is the second vehicle in the previous photo.
Churchill infantry tanks stopped for the night, Holland.
Crews of British Churchill infantry tanks prepare a hot meal as they stop for the night, Holland.
British Churchill infantry tanks and support vehicles move along a road in Holland.
British Matilda infantry tank, Derna Flats, North Africa.
Sherman medium tank used as an artillery observation post by the 14th Canadian Artillery Regiment, Caen, France.
After being completely submerged in the Meuse River for seven weeks, this Firefly Vc medium tank was retrieved by personnel of the 478th Ordnance Evacuation Company, using two M25 tank transporters. Marche railhead, Belgium, 3 March 1945.
Demonstration of Universal Carrier Wasp II equipment, Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, Waucelles, France, 29 July 1944. Note the flame gun in the co-driver’s compartment.
Universal Carrier Wasp IIC, Black Watch of Canada, Holten, Netherlands, 8 April 1945. Note appliqué armor and .30 caliber machine gun over co-driver’s compartment.
British 2-pdr. Portee and crew at range practice. In action as many of the crew as possible worked on the ground, as a direct hit would often dismount the gun, which would be thrown backwards, killing or injuring the men on the vehicle.
As an Italian woman washes her laundry nearby, M10 gun motor carriages in British Army service are in action on an indirect fire mission. The middle vehicle has a two-tone camouflage scheme.
British infantry dismount from Ram Kangaroo armored infantry carriers.
Canadian Ram Kangaroo armored infantry carriers.
British Army lorry converted for use as an ambulance crosses a ponton bridge.
British Army lorry.
T-34 medium tank performs reconnaissance on the snowbound Russian front.
Factory workers in a Urals plant assembling T-34 medium tanks for front line defense.
T-34 tank crews taking the oath prior to an engagement.
A tank-borne infantry detachment rolls into battle on T-34 medium tanks.
Infantry attacking under cover of T-34 medium tanks.
Infantry supported by T-34 medium tanks storm the enemy's fortifications.
Red Army men of a T-34 medium tank detachment taking German soldiers prisoner.
Red Army men advancing toward the enemy under cover of a T-34 medium tank.
A tank-borne detachment starts out on a fighting operation on T-34 medium and KV heavy tanks.
Camouflaged infantry are carried behind a T-34 and BT-7 medium tank to advance lines.
A tank-borne detachment mounting T-34 medium tanks in preparation for an attack.
Russian T-34 medium tank and camouflaged troops fighting for a village converted by the Germans into a center of resistance.
A duel between a Russian T-34 medium tank (foreground) and a German tank.
Russian T-34 medium tank camouflaged with hay and snow.
At a signal of alarm Russian crews return to their T-34 medium tank.
A tank-borne infantry detachment boarding T-34 medium tanks for an operation.
Camouflaged T-34 medium tanks headed to the front.
Soviet T-34/85 medium tanks, Berlin, 2 May 1945.
Women electricians checking the wiring of a T-60 light tank before it leaves the plant.
Automatic riflemen going into battle against the Germans, a British Matilda infantry tank in the background.
A BT-7 medium tank is hoisted into place inside the factory, while the Russian crew stands ready to take over.
"The massive trees cracked under the caterpillars like pieces of sugar under the impact of a strong set of teeth." A BT-7 medium tank moves through a wooded area.
A BT-7 medium tank plows through a snow bank.
German soldiers surrender to the crew of a Soviet BT-7 medium tank.
Completed KV heavy tanks and their crews lined up for the trip from factory to firing line.
KV heavy tank field repairs at the front.
Soviet troops alighting from KV heavy tanks.
The commander of a Soviet KV heavy tank unit reads instructions to the crews from his T-34 medium tank.
Repairing a KV heavy tank at the front.
New KV heavy tanks as they arrived at one sector of the front.
Soviet KVII heavy tank abandoned after becoming mired in a stream. Note the shell sitting on top of turret in the above photograph.
Another view of the Soviet KVII heavy tank abandoned after becoming mired in a stream.
Another view of the Soviet KVII heavy tank abandoned after becoming mired in a stream.
Another view of the Soviet KVII heavy tank abandoned after becoming mired in a stream.
A German officer and two soldiers pose alongside a knocked out Soviet KV II.
The same officer and the soldier on the left in the above photograph pose alongside another knocked out Soviet KV II.
German soldiers check out an abandoned KV II. One holds one of the tank’s 152mm shells, and another can be seen on the ground at right.
Another view of the same vehicle as seen at left.
German service troops prepare to move an abandoned KV II, which could end up being used against its former owners.
Another abandoned KV II being inspected by German soldiers.
KV II abandoned after being run into a ditch.
KV II flipped over after being run off the road.
KV II abandoned in a marsh.
Same KVII after being pulled out of the marsh. The marking on the side of the turret was placed there by a German unit directing the division indicated by the “Y” in a circle the direction they should take.
KV II knocked out and abandoned. Note anti-tank round hits on front of vehicle and turret.
This appears to be the same KV II as the turret has hits from anti-tank rounds in the same places as those on the vehicle in the above photo.
Knocked out and abandoned KV II.
Another view of the same knocked out and abandoned KV II.
German soldiers examine an abandoned KV II.
Camouflaged Russian sleigh-borne troops prepare to advance in the wake of a T-35 heavy tank.
Rare shot of a late production SU-85 self-propelled gun which used the hull and superstructure of the later SU-100 with commander’s cupola, but retained the 85mm gun. This particular vehicle belonged to the 13th Motorized Artillery Regiment, Polish Army , Praga suburb, Warsaw, 1944.
ISU-122 (A-19-S) self-propelled gun, Polish 1st Armored Corps, crossing the Oder River, 1945. Clearly shows the early style gun mount, also used on the ISU-152.
Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher mounted on tractor, captured by German forces in Russia, 1943.
Dodge weapons carrier in service with the Soviet Army towing a 57mm M1943 anti-tank gun, 1945.
German Kübelwagen with canvas top erected and rear side windows.
German Army Kübelwagen crossing a shallow stream in winter.
Troops of Company I, 1st Infantry Division, ride into the town of Enna on a captured German Army Kübelwagen, Sicily, 20 July 1943.
German Army Kübelwagen manned by Peter H. Buzz, driver, Sgt. Norris Pickens, front seat, and Pfc. Seymour Fier, is on its way to Berlin via Messina, Sicily and Rome, Italy, according to the hand-painted legend on the side of the vehicle, Sicily, 9 August 1943.
Pvt. Lavern Bick, Cpl. Bill Stone, Pvt. Joe Spinner, Sgt. Lee C. Kraus, and S/Sgt. John B. Upchurch, Ninth Air Force Advanced Headquarters, put to use a captured Kübelwagen, France, 1944. Note the USA stenciled on the door and front of the vehicle and a small star on the left mudguard.
Members of a U.S. Army Ninth Air Force Service Command Ordnance Section, declare that the German Kübelwagen is decidedly inferior to the jeep, and the lightness of the vehicle limits its use to carrying personnel. The Kübelwagen differs from the jeep in that it has an engine mounted in the rear, a nose which tapers from the windshield to the bumper, two doors on each side and a smooth underside.
German Army Kübelwagen with sand tires, captured in Tunisia, 24 February 1943.
German soldiers watching a burning building from the turret of an FT-18 light tank.
German command reconnaissance car captured by the French in the southern Tunis-Bizerte sector, North Africa, 1 March 1943. Vehicle was from a Luftwaffe unit as indicated by the “WL” on the license plate. This was the final version, the type “40”, which had the four-wheel steering omitted and the spare wheel mounted inside. Both changes were incorporated mainly to save on production man-hours.
Concluding the series of “Einheits” passenger cars of the Wehrmacht was the so-called heavy type. Here it is shown as a troop carrier with the Hermann Göring Division. If weather allowed, the windshield folded down. One MG 34 is mounted for anti-aircraft purposes.
PzKpfw III pass a burning Soviet BT-7 light tank.
Another PzKpfw III passing same burning BT-7 as in previous photo.
PzKpfw III Ausf L, Russia.
PzKpfw III pause to watch fires burning from an earlier action, Russia.
PzKpfw III, Russia.
PzKpfw III on Russian steppe.
PzKpfw IV medium tanks advance to-wards burning Russian village.
Fieseler Fi 156 Storch flies over a column of PzKpfw IV medium tanks, Russia.
PzKpfw III and infantry advancing, North Africa.
A captured German self-propelled assault gun (Sturmgeschütz 7.5-cm. Stu. K. 40).
A German PzKpfw V Ausf G “Panther” tank moves into American lines, but the motive power is an M25 tank transporter (536720) nicknamed “Dry Run”, operated by an Ordnance crew. France, 1 August 1944.
Members of the 464th Ordnance, 84th Infantry Division, Ninth U.S. Army, move a captured PzKpfw V Ausf G “Panther” tank through Geilenkirchen, Germany. The tank was knocked out by American forces near Gersonsweiler, Germany. 4 December 1944.
PzKpfw V “Panther” on an American M25 tank transporter in Germany, late 1940s.
Captured Panther being operated by members of the British Guards Armoured Division. It is claimed that the white marking partially visible on the side of the turret is a “G” for the Guards, but it might be the Allied recognition sign of a star in a white circle.
The heavy Panzer company of SS Panzer Regiment Das Reich had received its first ten Tigers by January 1943, and was heavily involved in the Kharkhov counteroffensive of March. Tank S13 nearest the camera has taken a hit in the side: note the pierced and buckled mudguard over the tracks and the field repairs to the hull just above and partially obscuring the Balkenkreuz.
A German Army Tiger passes the Victor Emmanuel monument in Rome in late 1943. Germany had occupied Italy following the overthrow of Mussolini and Italy's armistice with the Allies.
It might have weighed the best part of 60 tons, but the Tiger's wide tracks gave it mobility in the worst of the mud and snow encountered in Russia.
Tigers of the 101st Heavy SS Panzer Battalion pass through the French countryside near Rouen as they advance toward the Normandy invasion front. Michael Wittmann commanded one of the battalion's Tiger companies.
Tigers move across the Russian steppes during the Battle of Kursk, kicking up dust as their turrets nose round in the quest for enemy tanks.
Sgt. Carl Wells stands on the turret of a Tiger II while Lt. William H. Brown, both members of the 702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, 2nd Armored Division, Ninth U.S. Army, points to the damaged track which stopped the tank and enabled an M36 gun motor carriage to finish it off with a 90mm shell through the turret, which exploded the ammunition and killed the crew.
Tiger II knocked out by 6th Armored Division, near Wardin, 12 January 1945. Note the shell holes in the side of the hull and turret.
Tiger II knocked out by a bazooka shot which killed the crew of the vehicle, Osterode, Germany, 12 April 1945.
The same Tiger II knocked out by a bazooka shot, being indicated by photographer Raymond Burley, U.S. First Army.
Tiger II, knocked out in La Gleize in December 1944 during the battle of the Bulge, being examined by British troops at a later date.
A Tiger II of the 503rd sPzAbt moves through the outskirts of Budapest early in 1945 as Army and SS troops attempt to relieve the 9th SS Corps trapped in the city: the King Tigers almost broke through the encircling Red Army, but stiffening Soviet resistance drove them back, and only 785 out of 45,000 German soldiers escaped the Hungarian capital.
A Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger II which ran out of fuel on the Stavelot road, December 1944.
Jagdpanther knocked out with a well-placed 90mm round through the glacis plate by an M36 gun motor carriage of the 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion, attached to the 9th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army, 15 March 1945. Other hits were scored on the right track and gun mantlet as well as at least three more on the glacis. This vehicle has the simplified bolted gun collar.
Early production Jagdpanther with early mantlet, two vision slits and monobloc gun barrel.
Jagdpanther knocked out and tipped over to clear road.
Jagdpanther with bolted on collar, two vision slits and monobloc gun barrel, knocked out, possibly by French armored troops, and still burning.
Jagdpanther with bolted on collar, two vision slits and monobloc gun barrel, knocked out, possibly by French armored troops, and still burning.
Jagdpanther with bolted on collar, two vision slits and monobloc gun barrel, knocked out, possibly by French armored troops, and still burning.
Jagdpanther with bolted on collar, two vision slits and monobloc gun barrel, knocked out, possibly by French armored troops, and still burning.
Jagdpanther with bolted on collar, two vision slits and monobloc gun barrel, knocked out, possibly by French armored troops, and still burning.
Jagdpanther with early collar, two piece gun barrel and two vision slits, knocked out by French armored troops who are examining the vehicle. Note the M4 medium tank on the road in the background.
The same Jagdpanther, now joined by an M36 and the Jagdpanther’s crew at right.
A German B.IV demolition vehicle, the first of its kind to be taken on the beachhead in the Anzio area, Italy, 20 April 1944. It was brought in, disabled, by members of the British 1st Infantry Division for examination, after it had hit a mine and its tracks were knocked off. The object of this vehicle, hydraulically guided and controlled, was to take about 600 pounds of explosives to a given destination, dump it and return.
It was driven manually to any point and then sent on by remote control and the explosives, carried on the front of the vehicle, were released by two pointed arms. The vehicle was 12 feet long, 6 feet wide and 4 feet high, weighed approximately 4 tons and was driven by a four-cylinder gasoline engine.
Men of the British Army are measuring it and taking notes which were later used to prepare an STT Report. It is seen loaded on a British tank transporter trailer.
German officer in captured Bren gun carrier stops to inspect a burnt out British Firefly (Sherman) medium tank.
French Renault D1 on parade in Paris in the 1930s.
French Char D2 heavy tank during the May-June 1940 campaign.
French Army Panhard 178 armored car, May 1940.
Abandoned French Army Panhard 178 armored cars and other vehicles, May 1940.
Abandoned French Army AMD Panhard 178 armored cars and other vehicles, including a Tracteur UE (right rear background), being examined by German troops, May 1940.
One of the six Char de Rupture 2C heavy tanks destroyed by the Luftwaffe near the rail station of Meuse-sur-Meuse, May 1940. These tanks belonged to the 51st Bataillons de Chars.
French Char B1 (early production) “Verdun”, with short 47mm Sa.34 gun in turret.
French Char B1 bis, 2nd DCR, disabled outside Hautville, 17 May 1940. Note the rather unusual hull lettering.
French Char B1 bis, disabled and abandoned, May 1940.
French Char B1 bis, disabled and abandoned, May 1940.
Same vehicle as in previous photo.
French Char B1 bis, 1st DCR, abandoned, May 1940, Beaumont, France.
French Char B1 bis “Bearn”, destroyed from an internal explosion, May 1940.
French Char B1 bis “Rhone”, knocked out, Beaumont, France, May 1940.
French Char B1 bis “Rhone”, 37th BCC, destroyed in Beaumont, France, 16 May 1940.
French Char B1 bis “Rhone”, 1st DCR, knocked out, Beaumont, France, May 1940.
French Char B1 bis with APX-4 cupola which is facing the right side of the tank. This photo circa 1970s shows an example preserved in France.