Post war use of Axis AFVs and Vehicles.

This photo was taken in 1960s. The man in front of the StuG IIIG is Erkki Halonen, who commanded that StuG IIIG during Continution War.

 

Ps531-44 in the condition it arrived at Bovington, it is now painted up as a German Stug still with the Finnish visor protector.

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two battalions worth of Panthers,still in the factory grease,were captured in a warehouse complex in Baghdad in OIF1.Also used against us were a number of German 88s

 

Thats one I never heard of.

 

Do you have any sources for this that we could read about this find? I have found nothing on what you have stated so far. You would have thought that finding two battlions worth of WWII era Panthers in mint condition would be big news. Especially to collectors and historians. Worth millions.

 

This sounds like a variation of the Latrine rumour of Panthers being seen in the First Gulf War. It turned out to be a T54-55 with the add on armour.

The "88s" could be mis identified 85mm M1939 or M1944 A/A gun both of which were used by Iraq. When the British left Iraq in the late 1940s they left behind a small number of Churchill tanks (between 6 and 12), armoured cars of various types including S.A Marmon Herrington Mk4 and even a few ancient Guy/Vickers and Lanchester 6 wheelers. 25pdrs and 18pdr field guns a few 3inch A/A and 40mm Bofors A/A. The Feisal Regime received more modern equipment in 1956-57 when 52 Centurions were received- enough for one armoured regiment. The only German armour in Iraq that I am aware of were trophies left behind by large British armour training units that trained in the Western Desert of Iraq during WW2, Hence the pair of 15cm SFH auf Lorraine Schlepper found in 2003.

It would be nice to be proved wrong

 

LOL I remember that rumor. Two bad. Two battalions of mint Panthers would have netted Iraq quite a hefty sum.

 

Jeez!! Whats up with the dupe posts recently? LOL.

 

Well hopefully cavtrooper will help us out.

 

Some ex Axis amrour used in Middle East.

Eygptian. A battery of 15cm Sig auf Pz2 were used by the Eygptians, whether this photo is a genuine Eygptian wreck or one left over from 1942-3 is unclear.
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Syria.
A Hummel
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A JgPz4 with the usual patriotic markings
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All 3 posted before in this thread .

 

Turkey

 

Spain

 

Sweden

 

Turkey again

 

Another shot of a Syrian PZ IV

 

I dont know if this was posted or not but here:




A Syrian tank captured during the 6 day war.

 

Yep. They have been mentioned and discussed a few times earlier in the thread and that pic has been posted in posts #s 2,7,41,59.