Captured equipment

[Richard V]

If you dig around Lonesentry you might find more:

http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/foreignweapons/

http://www.lonesentry.com/features/f1_german_panzer.html

 

[elkarlo]

My brother said there was an Italian Tankette at their base in Iraq. Looks like they at least moved it several thousand miles.

 

[tigercat]

From Wikipedia

In North Africa, the Commonwealth forces captured a large number of Breda Model 35s during Operation Compass, enabling the Australian 2/3 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment,[5] parts of the 4th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (which had a total of 42 Bredas in its Light Anti-Aircraft batteries during the Siege of Tobruk) and one battery of 106th (Lancashire Hussars) Regiment, RHA to be equipped with them.

Captured Bredas were used by the Long Range Desert Group and aboard a number of Royal Australian Navy and Royal Navy vessels including HMASVendetta, HMAS Perth[6] and HMS Ladybird, and at least one Marmon-Herrington Mk II armoured car.[7]

 

[mudhead]

Heinkel He-115s were used for clandestine missions, but I can't recall if they were captured ones or not.

They were Norwegian - they had a few, of which 4 made it to the UK.

 

[Ultima770]

...... wow

 

[marathag]

Agreed if you have an equipment for a brigade you may want to use a batallions worth of it and use the rest as replacements.

Except trucks. You used the trucks you could find and hopefully they were Ford's no matter who they originally belonged to.

Ford's 3 ton V3000 from Cologne

Ford SAF F198T 3.5ton from Paris

The German one used a Bosch distributor and solex carb
The US one used Ford Distributor and Stromberg 97 carb, other slight differences in the V8

 

[173rd LRRP]

Was fairly sure that a lot of the work on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal was done with Japanese equipment. Googled the subject and apparently the Marines did use Japanese bulldozers and other unnamed equipment

 

[BeardedHoplite]

The Vichy French gendarmes used an oddly high amount of Sten guns. Most of the photos I've seen of them in parades or on patrol have them using them.

 

[NOMISYRRUC]

I had a book on tanks in world war two and there were two images of Japanese tanks, a Type 95 and a Type 97 that had been captured by Allied troops with the words "Under New Management" written on the side. Unfortunately I don't know where that book is...

Was it the Victor Annual 1975?

 

[Just Leo]

Was fairly sure that a lot of the work on Henderson Field on Guadalcanal was done with Japanese equipment. Googled the subject and apparently the Marines did use Japanese bulldozers and other unnamed equipment

They did use one captured Japanese bulldozer which was likely one captured American bulldozer, a Caterpillar R-4. The first Japanese-manufactured dozer, the G-40, wasn't yet made, or ordered.

 

[Gasmask134]

Was it the Victor Annual 1975?

No, it was at least from the early 2000s...

 

[NOMISYRRUC]

No, it was at least from the early 2000s...

I was making what is scientifically known as a joke. The Victor and its rival Valiant were long running British war comics. They would often have stories where a platoon of tommies would commandeer a vehicle and paint "under new management" along the side.

http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/annual.html

 

[gallen95]

Soviets used captured tanks, especially in early days. They even made their own version of StuG on chassies of captured Pz III, "

You can find some detail on the Russian StugIII conversion here

http://www.o5m6.de/redarmy/su_76i.php

 

[Carl Schwamberger]

I remember in a book I once read about the Normandy campaign there was a photo of a US artillery battery shelling Cherbourg. I remember it because they were using German self propelled guns with white stars painted on the sides

The Artillery Branch deployed a intelligence battalion to Europe for evaluating German equipment. So much was captured in the summer of 1944 a Brigade HQ was authorized to supervise the deployment of multiple batteries & battalion HQ for combat use of the captured German & French cannon.

 

[Carl Schwamberger]

Agreed if you have an equipment for a brigade you may want to use a batallions worth of it and use the rest as replacements.

...

Probably why the French only fielded a single battalion of captured Panther tanks, and decommissioned those by 1949

 

[Just Leo]

In Blackburn's " Guns of Normandy", there is related the story of the capture of a German nebelwerfer, which was pointed at the Germans and fired. It was unfortunate that the German artillery had registered the location of the weapon, with disastrous results.

 

[marathag]

In Blackburn's " Guns of Normandy", there is related the story of the capture of a German nebelwerfer, which was pointed at the Germans and fired. It was unfortunate that the German artillery had registered the location of the weapon, with disastrous results.

Or the the smoke cloud the rockets left after firing

 

[Gasmask134]

I was making what is scientifically known as a joke. The Victor and its rival Valiant were long running British war comics. They would often have stories where a platoon of tommies would commandeer a vehicle and paint "under new management" along the side.

http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/annual.html

oh.

I've never heard of it until now...

 

[L4a1]

The Russians made 201 SU-76i from captured PzIII, and StuG III hulls.

 

[Jack Brisco]

Heck, we also consumed captured German food. Very helpful at times when the troops were outrunning their supplies. We also captured and used several hundred German refrigerated train cars, badly needed since we didn't have that many of our own reefer cars to haul perishable foods from the ports to the front line. Am also sure we used captured German medical supplies, which were apparently good, as well as just about any other supplies deemed usable.