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North Africa battles! This is a field conversion by the DAK troops. 20mm Flak 30 AA gun mounted to a captured British Army CMP Ford F15A 15 cwt light truck.

North Africa battles! Another field conversion but this time by Regio Esercito. They added their 20mm Breda Mod.39 AA gun to the CMP Ford F15A light truck. Note the national white cross is on the engine's cover.

North Africa battles! Australian army field conversion based on CMP Chevrolet C15A light truck and captured Italian 20mm Breda Mod.35 AA gun.

Back to Italian. Fiat 508 CM off-road car. It served since 1941 and it is like the jeep of Kubelwagen in Italian army.

Italian Autoblinda AB-42 prototype. It is a design more suitable for North Africa than the AB-41 but later got cancelled. It's turret was used in the AB-43 armored vehicle.

Canadian Dodge D8A, all wheel drive 8 cwt light truck. British and Australian armies in North Africa theater.

Marmon-Herrington LP3 truck across Commonwealths' troops. I have British, Australia, and South Africa versions.

Heavy Marmon-Herrington. The 6 ton 6x6 truck, used by British and Australian armies in North Africa. The Hungarian army also had some as light tank transporters.

The British Vickers Light Dragon MK.II tracked artillery tractor, entered in service in early 1930s and still used during the North Africa campain.

The British Vickers Light Dragon MK.II tracked artillery tractor, entered in service in early 1930s and still used during the North Africa campaign. Most time they were towing the light field guns (18 Pdr, 25 Pdr, etc) and AT guns.

A new project. The Kübelwagen variants. Not only the famous Volkswagen type 82, the Wehrmacht were also using these "bucket seat" passengers cars from various other manufacturers, especially before 1943. This first example is the Benz type 170 VK.

Cool car! Nicely done

Tatra 57K Kübelwagen. This one was more common in the SS units such as the "Das Reich" motorized infantry division in 1941.

Captured vehicles converted to Kübelwagen. One is based on the Bedford MWD, which the Wehrmacht got a lot from Dunkirk. The other is based on the Canadian Ford F15, which captured during the Greek campaign in 1941. Two pioneer battalions had the Ford F15 Kübelwagen, one remained in Greece and the other sent to Russia.

Three US vehicles:
Ford GTB 1.5 ton truck, also called as "Burma Jeep";
Dodge WC-21 light carrier;
Chevrolet 155 FHD short nose 3 ton truck.

In the late 1930s, the Polish government decided to import the US Chevrolet production line for their new general trucks. They bought a bunch of Chevy 155 FHD for test and will started the mass production of this model in 1941. However due to the war, this modernization plan never started, and some the remaining Chevy trucks in the Polish army were captured by German.

The other icon is the late version of the Polski-Fiat 621, using a 1938 type drivers cab.

The Polish Vickers MK.E light tank. They are characterized by the two large air vents on either side of the upper body, posterior to the turret. In 1939 all the 32 of them were concentrated in two light tank companies, one within the Warsaw Armored Motorized Brigade, the other within the 10th cavalry brigade.

Two Polish prototypes:
Pzinz 303 all-terrain liaison car with light armor for recon units;
Pzinz 160 tank destroyer. Using 4TP light tank chassis and a 37mm wz.36 AT gun.

German Ford V8 COE short nose truck in Romanian Army service.

This is a redraw of the Romanian army 47mm Schneider M1936 AT gun.