Found this melange of pics. while surfing and though I'd share...........

U.S. halftrack pics. I've never seen, notice the add - on wooden tree limb armor on the one pic. On the first pic. what's up with the 37mm [ ? ] and the water cooled 50 - cool.






Next up, some duces, another water cooled 50 and a nice set of extra chained front wheels. The last one has a nice dozer, shovel and destroyed town scene - dio ?







Next - wazzat ?, I mean I know its a piece on a flatbed r.r. car - but a 150 cannon - or what ? Whatever it is I like it !!!!
Edit - just noticed the first pic. on the destroyed railcar is an 88. The other two ?







A drilling on a Opal or Merc.



My faves - some swabby stuff - German aux. boats.



This one looks like my boat - notice the 20mm on the back cabin behind the wheel house - and some said the searchlight might be to heavy for my cabin - naaaah ?







Very cool German barge.



Can anyone tell me what this is - a Farmile ?



Enjoy - Glenn

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the pics some graet shots there. I recognise that wee boat looking excellent.

Cheers

Al C[

PS Have you signed up to my more British Trcuks plea!!

Hi Alan, no but I'll find it and log my moniker on the dotted line l.o.l.
Glenn

intereasting photos some of them seem to be crying out to be tunred into a dioramas
have u got anymor photos???

Cool pics. I've read that the 30cal water cooled deal ontop of the 1/2 track was the 'tracer' gun. It was used to trace the firepath, then once on target they'd unload the 37.

The rest are just great diorama fodder.

The pictured half-track fitted with a 37mm AA gun is a T28E1. Some were used in Tunisia in 42-43 and later in Italy and Southern France. According to a Military Modeling article by Steve Zaloga (that includes this very picture) they were credited with 39 German aircraft during the Kasserine Pass battle, mostly Ju-87 Stukas : "The initial tracer fire sometimes misled German pilots into thinking that they were being engaged only by short-range machine guns, only to be hit moments later by the longer-ranged 37mm cannon "...

The German heavy AA guns on flat cars look like Flak 40 128mm guns on Geschutzwagen IV (Eisb) like the one below. One is missing the upper recoil cylinder.



Frenchy

Those are probably logs for unditching or dropping into gaps or muddy spots, not armor. Halftracks were way too thinly-armored to bother trying to beef it up.