Love how you have kept the original hood numbers and just laqured or oiled over it
Yea tatty, unfortunately Jeeps are about the most popular and therefore expensive of the WW2 vehicles to get (aside from something rare like a...
Hi 169th FA What do you mean by the 43rd was triangularised? Is that possibly when the 169th adopted the triangle unit marking on the...
Try saving the pics to your computer and enlarge them with what ever your picture programe is. ive looked at them from the original book with a...
Hi Tatty and DG I have hands full with the vehicles i have already but would like a GMC or Chevy cargo one day. The best way to track down...
If the unit in the photo is miss identified, then we need to ascertain what the 37 mm antitank unit displaying the inverted triangle was or if in...
Hi Guys Hopefully below will be attached photos of my vehicles. they are a 42 Ford GPW Jeep presently under restoration, a 43 Willys MB Jeep...
OK done more digging and looks like the AT batterys were not under FA Btns but attached to HQ of the infantry Btns so sounds like the unit using...
43rd Div component Units 103rd Infantry Regiment 169th Infantry Regiment 172nd Infantry Regiment 103rd Field Artillery Battalion 152nd Field...
Hopefully there will be a photo attached to this. One is of the 169th FA Btn on parade through the town of Warkworth where they were based during...
haha No they are actually in a book about the US forces in NZ but i was using the glass to see details of the unit markings on the vehicles....
Hi mate, yea i will scan the photos and post them when i get back home from work, you may be able to see more in them but i did employ the use of...
G-day Carl Cheers for the reply. Yea i am trying to find out what vehicles and equipment the 169th Field Artillery was equipped with. I have...
I am looking for info on the US 169th Field Artillery Btn who were part of the US 43rd Inf Div and stationed in New Zealand during WW2 both before...
My Grand father was in the New Zealand Division in the Pacific and while on Guadalcanal he rekoned the kiwis were prone to make candle holders or...
Cheers for the welcome mate, i have found the site very interesting already.
Howdy all. My name is Colin and have been collecting WW2 memorabilia since i was 7 or so when my grand father gave me a few items he souvenired...
