Lend-Lease and captured vehicle thread Pic related (Churchill

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>>34126827

>One unit, the illustrious 83rd Infantry Division, which was moving asfast as an armored task force, had recently been nicknamed "The Rag-Tag Circus" by the correspondents. Its resourceful commander, Major General Robert C. Macon, had given orders to supplement the division's transport with anything that moved; "no questions asked." Now the Rag-Tag Circus was going flat out in a weird assortment of hurriedly repainted captured German vehicles: Wehrmacht jeeps, staff cars, ammunition trucks, Mark Very and Tiger panzers, motor bikes, buses and two cherished fire engines. Out in front, with infantrymen hanging all over it, was one of the fire trucks. On its rear bumper was a large, flapping banner. It read, Next Stop: Berlin. "

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>>34126878
>On its right flank, tenaciously pacing the 2nd mile for mile and fighting all the way, was a wildly assorted collection of vehicles crammed with troops. From the air it bore no resemblance to either an armored or an infantry division. In fact, but for a number of U.s.
Army trucks interspersed among its columns, it might easily have been mistaken for a German convoy. Major General Robert C. Macon's highly individualistic 83rd Infantry Division, the "Rag-Tag Circus," was going hell-for-leather toward the Elbe in its captured booty. Every enemy unit or town that surrendered or was captured subscribed its quota of rolling stock for the division, usually at gunpoint. Every newly acquired vehicle got a quick coat of olive-green paint and a U.S. star slapped on its side; then it joined the 83rd.

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>>34126885
>The men of the Rag-Tag Circus had even managed to liberate a German airplane and, harder, had found someone to fly it, and it was spreading consternation all over the front. First Sergeant William G. Presnell of the 30th Infantry Division, who had fought all the way from Omaha Beach, knew the silhouette of every Luftwaffe fighter. So when he saw what was obviously a German plane heading in his direction, he yelled "ME-109!" and dived for cover. Puzzled when there was no burst of machine gun fire, he raised his head and stared as the fighter sped away. The plane was painted a blotchy olive-green. On the undersides of the wings were the words "83rd Inf. Div." From "The Last Battle". By Cornealius Ryan

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FDF testing captured Soviet tanks in Äänislinna, 11.5.1944

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>>34127011
Same sort, photographed for identification aid to units.

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>>34127028
Intact T34 captured as the crew abandoned it in Kaukola. 16.8.1941.

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>>34127039
Same thing, worse photo.

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>>34126896

>Three amusing stories stand out about the Rag-Tag Circus while on the road to the Elbe. First, the airplane noted earlier was thought by some, in another American division, to be part of the Luftwaffe. The second story involved a car speeding along and dashing in and out of other vehicles and continually honking its horn. After a few minutes it captured attention, when some US troops realized that it was not captured German staff car, but one containing a German general, who had a look of confusion on his face. Third, the “Circus” overtook a German convoy led by a Colonel and his staff.

How did they deal with ammunition for captured tanks?

If there weren't any would they completely discard the tank and use it for spare parts?

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Matilda captured by Germany now being recaptured by the brits

>>34127288
From what I have read the Germans captured enough Soviet gear that they manufactured ammo for it, guns and tanks, but I'm sure more uncommon stuff was either fitted with a new gun or used with captured ammo

>>34126827

Are you the /k/ planes guy?

Bumpin to lurk

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Soviet Panthers.

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Dump of captured Arab shit used by Israel

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T-62

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Israeli T-54s

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Captured Egyptian Iosef Stalin tanks on display

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More Egyptian Iosef Stalin tanks on display

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KV1 modified with a 75mmL/43 and a cupola from a Pz4 .

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Captured BTR-50s in Israeli use

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Captured BMPs in IDF

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MiG-21 in Israeli use

>>34128433
Forgot caption . Captured Russian tank factory used by the SS in Kharkov in '43 .

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http://beutepanzer.ru/

Great place for exclusively this kind of content, if designed like a typical slav website.

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Meet Alfred Becker. Chief ork vehicle designer.

An engineer before the war, Alfred Becker spent his war years in France, combing the beaches of Dunkirk and the various abandoned French equipment graveyards for vehicles, which he would fix up, slap on German optics and a gun and have them sent to Africa for Rommel. Rommel was impressed by it, so he presented his new friend to Hitler along with examples of his work. Hitler was just as impressed, and gave Becker all the men and resources Becker would ever need and commissioned him to field two divisions worth of converted armour.

He accomplished his order.

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This is a strange one .

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>>34128287
What the fug

>>34128323
Track tension seems a little off.

>>34129250
That's really neat

>>34127231
lmao imagine the shock. You think that it's your forces but when they stop americans pop out of the hatches.

>>34128308
...Captured?
Pretty sure Egypt bought those.

>>34130014

He means the Israelis captured them. See the flags?

>>34130014
They're in Jew service, look at the flags.

Ergo, captured by the IDF from the dune coons.

>>34130331
Apologies.