Engineering and Combat Engineering Vehicles.Allied or Axis

Thats what razin and I are discussing.

 

I've looked at insignia and have not found any German using a "dark" star -it is of course the Soviet guards insignia, still spending time trying to find the other photo of this scene which might show something.

 

Other photos re the fahrschulle doesn't really add anything vis markings

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Does anyone have any info on the vehicle make up of German engineer units? I have found some good detailed ones for the IJN/IJA and of course for the US.

 

From Richard's Rhodes "Masters of Death": The 4 Einsatzgruppen were given equipment priority by Himmler with full motorization. However, these 4 death units did not have bulldozers or engineering equipment that would have greatly facilitated the digging and burial for mass graves. 40 shovels were carried along in trucks for each death squad within each EG.

Perhaps the general lack of heavy German engineering equipment turned out to save many lives as much time was wasted using capitives to slowly dig trenches?

 

Japanese dozer captured on Kiska

 

Seems like the Japanese were better equipped for construction than the Germans. Now, that is a real twist.... and really just pathetic on the German's part.

 

LOL I was thinking the same thing.

 

For example here is the composition of one IJA contruction unit.

5 bulldozers
5 carry-alls
4 rollers
2 break harrows
5 sprinkler trucks
5 bush pullers
2 scrapers
2 power shovels

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And this,
"Those machines were added to each setsueitai as far as possible. Sayo descrives a standard composition of a ground leveling section as follows(Sayo[2001], pp.239-240).

machine team:
1 power shovel or 1 dragline
3 tracter
4 ballast cars for tracters
1 carryall scraper
1 bulldozer
13 men (administration, operation)

civil engineering team:
17 men (1 adninistration and 16 laborer)

explosive team:
10 men (1 admin, 2 for compressor machine operation, 3 laborer for machine drill, 4 laborer for explosives)"

 

Truck mounted crane and DUKW at POL dump on the beach during April 1944 training exercises at Slapton Sands, Devon, England, in preparation for the D-Day invasion that followed in June.

 

Canadian Engineers

 

In this last photo, I'm just surprised their bike isn't a Kattenrad



Cheers...

 

About half way down page 1 on this thread on another board is a picture of a German air compressor on some rather unique wheels and a real steam roller (it's steam powered and an antique by WW 2).

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I'll leave it up to the enterprising JCF III to transfer them if he wishes since I seem to have problems doing that.

 

Ill give it a try T.A. .

 

That's the air compressor. The steam roller is just below it. Look at those wheels! That thing has got to be antique.