British Military Trucks in Wehrmacht Service
Jochen Vollert
Dieser Bildband zeigt auf eindrucksvollen Fotos die Verwendung
erbeuteter britischer LKW bei der Wehrmacht an allen Fronten des
Zweiten Weltkriegs.
Vehicles captured around Dunkirk, in France, Belgium, Greece and
North Africa - Service on the Eastern Front, in the West, South and
with the Afrikakorps
Captured Beutefahrzeuge of British manufacture were a significant
addition to Germany's military efforts in the later war years.
Without these trucks, many stemming from the Battle of Dunkirk, the
German war machine would have been much less capable of waging
Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union from 1941.
While Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk in May and June
1940, made possible the escape of more than 300,000 French and
British soldiers, they had to leave all their heavy equipment
behind. All in all, the BEF lost around 65,000 vehicles, many of
which returned to military service on the German side and doing
their duty on the Eastern Front. Other sources for the German
Wehrmacht to lay its hands on British trucks to supplement its own
forces were Operation Demon in April 1941, the British evacuation
from Greece, and the campaign in North Africa from February 1941 to
June 1943.
This publication offers for the very first time a comprehensive
overview on the various British Trucks in Wehrmacht Service,
covering well-known models and makes such as the Bedford and the
Morris-Commercial GS trucks in the 8cwt to 3-ton range, the heavy
Scammell Pioneers and AEC Matadors, specialised vehicles such as
cranes and field cars as well as many rarer makes, rarities and
oddities.
A special chapter also grants an overview on the Canadian-built
vehicles of the British Army that served with the
Afrikakorps.
This book is the companion volume to Tankograd's 'British Military
Trucks of World War 2'. For all British military vehicle
enthusiasts these books are milestones.
Format 22 x 30 cm, gebunden, 304 Seiten, 547 s/w Fotos, 425
davon bisher unveröffentlicht! englischer Text, Best.-Nr.
TG015