Wwii vehicles

World War II half-track use In America, 43,000 Half-Tracks were produced by three primary manufacturers; the largest being the White Motor Company, the original designer, with a total of 15,414 accepted by the War Department. The other manufactures, Auto Car built 12,168 and Diamond T a further 12,421. These designs were produced under license in Canada, and were widely supplied under the Lend Lease program, with 5,000 supplied to the USSR alone. The fourth manufacturer of American-made…

The SdKfz 251/20 was known as 'Uhu' (owl) and carried an infra-red searchlight to illuminate targets for small groups of Panther tanks at night. These variants were produced late in the war. The SdKfz 251 stands with the Panzer IV at the focal point of Wehrmacht armor. Its only rival for “best of its kind” was its US army counterpart. It was a bit of a military afterthought. German infantry had regularly ridden trucks to the combat zone during maneuvers since the Reichswehr years. In the…

The brutal reality of the Second World War has been brought to life in a series of stunning colourised images from one of the world's most devastating conflicts.

Classic Toy Soldiers, Inc. WWII CTS949A Battle of Kursk Playset in 1:32 scale plastic toy soldiers. Play set modeled after those owned by baby boomers made by the Louis Marx Toy Company in the 1950's and 1960's. WWII Eastern Front Battle of Kursk play set contains German toy soldiers, Russian plastic toy soldiers, Italian Infantry plastic toy soldiers, German Panzer toy tanks, Russian T-34 toy tanks, German 88mm toy cannon, battleground accessories, railroad defensive position and command…

During World War II, when Bulgaria joined the Axis powers in fighting the Soviet Union, they were given some 97 German Panzer IV tanks, about 100

This Ford GPW was discovered in the Tunisian desert of North Africa along with a horde of abandoned military vehicles, shortly after it found was sent to

In 1938, a 2cm FlaK30 was mounted on the Demag DII 3 a predecessor of the 07. The 07 was built from 1938 to 1944, by various firms, including Mechanische Werke-Cottbus, Saurer, MNH, Bussing- NAG, Adler and Demag. The Zgkw 1t was the earliest self-propelled mounting for the FlaK troops. A special superstructure with folding sides was designed to give room for all-round traverse. The original vehicles were totally unarmoured, but eventually an armoured cab was provided and an armoured shield…

Heavy artillery, endless rounds of ammunition and caches of weapons aren’t the only useful resources to help win a war. The troops in combat during WWII needed some remarkable vehicles to sustain them throughout their journey across long distances, as well as on the battlefield. Here are ten of the…