Might be worth cross-ref’ing to both the Shows and Museum threads too..... not all of us visit the TR section often......
Might be worth cross-ref’ing to both the Shows and Museum threads too..... not all of us visit the TR section often......
you are right.
After sorting out my dodgy scanner that didn't want to work with my PC, I'm now able to share this one of mine, which I think will be a decent bump to this thread.
A Panther on the move in Sedan in 1944, unfortunately only the place and year is listed on the back, so can't be more specific. Had it been a more obscure area, it may have been possible to try and pinpoint a unit, but with Sedan being a main crossing point over the Meuse and into Northern France, I'm not even going to attempt to pinpoint a unit The second word may be the month, but I can't make it out.
Here is a photo from my mother in laws collection
Taken by her 1941 in Latvia.
I saw an earlier photo in this thread of a training tank.
This looks of similar size.
Cheers Rick
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Renault UE Chenilette, the Germans captured large amounts of them in France in 1940. Looks like it even still has the original French markings.
The Germans were chronically short of AFVs and made use of pretty much any vehicles they captured-rarely for 1st line use, but widely used for training, internal security use against partisans, conversions to sp guns or as gun tractor/supply carriers-the French vehicles had the added bonus of the Germans having captured large supplies of spares and occupying the factories that made it all.
Thanks for that info chaps ,
Sort of makes sense to us trying to establish a timeline putting together all her photos in order.
We have lots of photos of french POW's in the same box , some marked Heiligenbeil , which was further south in East Prussia.
It's all of interest and your input much appreciated .
Cheers Rick
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