Some New Afrika Korps pics

[W Petz]

Dak#11

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Dak#12

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Dak#13

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Dak#14

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Dak#15

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Dak#16

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Dak#17

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Dak#18

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Dak#19

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Dak#20

[i.spring]

Hi Bill.
Thanks for shareing the great shots. I love the scenes with the stone decorations. Very cool.
I wanted to ask, the large trucks that the dak men are lieing beside. These are british bedford trucks right?
Im not sure but it seems like a high amount of trucks seen being used by the afrika korp was british?
I might be wrong ?
Ian

[John Hodgin]

very interesting photo cause this guy has oversea cap reworked to m40 cap.

Not really, it is a Luft. M41 cap.

[Bill Murray]

Hi Ian:

Of the latest batch Bill posted (Thanks Bill!!):

#s 41 & 66 are Chevrolet 3 tonners.
#s 63 & 64 are Ford 3 tonners.

Both vehicles are Canadian Modified Commercial/Conventional Pattern trucks supplied to the British in the main.

It has been posted here before somewhere, but Rommel's troops were more or less under orders to capture, repair and use as many British, Canadian and American vehicles as they could..

Aside from the German Opel and Ford trucks, the allied trucks were considered more robust, incredibly simpler to maintain and repair and generally more suited for desert warfare than the German vehicles of the day. One issue was they almost all used large, single desert type wheels and tyres that performed better in the sand and mud than the much smaller and thinner German wheels and tyres.

Bill

[W Petz]

Ian and John thanks for your comments.

Bill...Thanks for the ID and information on the trucks.

Bill Petz

[i.spring]

and thanks to Bill for always giving brilliant vechicle information and Bill for his amazing photos. always a pleasure.
Ian