Post War use of Allied vehicles and tanks

Swedish Congo Armoured Unit

In December 1962 two captured M 8 were pressed into Swedish UN service. On 31st December 1962 these ACs supported LtCol Bengt Fredman´s Bn assaulting Kaminaville. During spring 1963 this unit known as P 6 grew to four M 8:s and two M 3 Scoutcars. In 1964 it was considered to move the unit to Cyprus but instead the cars were returned to the Kongolese.



Photo: Warrant Officer Folke Norberg in fron of his M 8. Kamina spring 1963. He is wearing white equipment because the unit will form a honour guard for visiting C-in-C R.Swedish Army, LtGen Thord Bonde.


The Overvalwagen Forum: Congo-Katanga (READ ONLY))

 

I do know that their was a A-6 advanced trainer in air combat as late as the 1980's

 

Hmm, perhaps you mean the AT-6...

 

Still use them



Cheers...

 

yes I think I ment the AT-6 anyway i hear rumors of one in combat in the 80's is there any conformation on that

 

And here I was thinking this thread was about land vehicles LOL.

 

More M8s in the Congo.

 

Not sure about the 80's but in the 60's and 70's I believe portugal used them in the colonial wars... Well, at least it's a military craft. We used Aviocars to drop bombs in there too




Cheers...

 

Modified M8 Congo

 

well i supose but i thought that the plane was still a pretty cool thing to have in the 80's sorry if a little out of catorgory

(Ps school blocked the ABC check as freeware so I am sorry about any mis-spellings)

 

Thats ok. No Prob. Funny how the Spell Check is blocked LOL. I just ramble on and try my best at spelling .

 

French 1939 Panhard Vietnam

 

Cruiser Tank A34 Comet

In service in Ireland from 1950 to 1970

 

Chile 1969!!!

 

Not a bad military life for one of the "Worst tanks of WWII" as someone claimed LOL.

 

Venezuelan M-18s

 

Greek Centaur



Missing Links Centaur in postwar Greek service

 

It really is interesting to see how many Allied WWII vehicles served far longer then the War and as expected .

 

And that the smaller countries especially the ones in Africa and Asia put them to good use too.

 

Chinese IS-2 used as a pillbox