A View through the eyes of GI's - Knocked out German Armor

[W Petz]

ROBB,


Great pic of a German Halftrack dug into the sand of the desert!! Thanks for sharing the pic of your Grand-Father!!! Bill

[Battler]

A photo from my collection.
An abandonned Stug III in Normandy 1944.

[W Petz]

Battler,

Very Nice StuG shot!! Thanks for sharing!! I just picked up GI photo album and found a few photos of captured weapons and a Kettenkrad All these photos were taken at Camp Top Hat, Antwerp, Belgium.

Here is the pic of the kettenkrad.

[W Petz]

Captured Pak40

[W Petz]

Here is a Flak gun with Kill rings on it.

[W Petz]

Various pieces of the same weapons and others scattered around.

[W Petz]

Reverse side of the same photo typed Camp Top Hat, Antwerp, Belgian

[jtrowbridge5]

kill rings

[QU OTE=W Petz]Here is a Flak gun with Kill rings on it.[/QUOTE] would the kill rings have been for planes or vehicles, thanks for more interesting photos

[jtrowbridge5]

to battler. is the roof plate buckled?. the stug is very close to the wall, could it have been parked there then destroyed by its crew

[jtrowbridge5]

scrap?

Various pieces of the same weapons and others scattered around.

all these guns tanks ect seems to laid out in some sort of order ,would the americans have still been doing assesmets at this late stage in the war

[W Petz]

jtrowbridge5.

Since it is an anti-aicraft gun (3.7cm by the looks of it) I would think those Kill rings would be for aircraft and not Armor....there are 15 rings by the way....as for the assortment of items....I've seen that many times before in photos. I've shown pics of areas that were used as collection points in this thread. This just seems to be a smaller collection point on items collected from around the area of Antwerp. Bill

[Larrister]

Destroyed German armour (don't know what type) somewhere in Italy. Troops are New Zealanders.

[W Petz]

Larrister,

That could be a flakvierling on a Panzer III or IV chassis...it's pretty well destroyed by a possible internal explosion. Nice photo!!! Thanks for sharing and posting it on this thread. Did you find it in a NZ Veterans photo album? Bill

[Larrister]

Hi Bill

Yes, the photo is from a New Zealand vet's album. The album covers his time in Italy and Germany.

Larrister

[Larrister]

Hi Bill,

I have just done a high res. scan of photo and think there may be two vehicles in this photo. The front vehicle with men standing on it may be a flakvierling whilst there seems to be another ruined tracked vehicle (possibly pz.III) behind it. Here are two photos from scan, one showing what looks like a gun barrel on ground beside rear vehicle and shells on ground in front of first vehicle.

Best regards
Larrister