WWII Equipment - Vics, Aircraft and Kit

[C-Mag]

Pretty cool pic of an Afrika Korps Panzer II on the beach

[Hastur]

They weren't a decisive force, but they did serve the role as guerillas or an insurgency so as to keep the Axis putting resources into protecting their rear areas.
Hey, and who can't love a bunch a guys rolling around on their own in small units through the desert making hit and run attacks on Nazi's.

I'm not sure it's fair to say they weren't a decisive force. Alongside the early SAS they attacked strategic targets and did enough damage to planes and fuel dumps etc to have a real effect. They also collected a lot of good intelligence which was their main purpose. They were a lot more than just diversionary tactics to draw Axis forces from the front lines.
Without the LRDG the SAS would never have got off the ground as their first raid using the air force for transport was a disaster.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of these guys and what they did. They were big contributors to the battle for North Africa. My only point is that it still took massed troops, tanks and artillery to push the Axis out of North Africa.

The tanks of the North African Campaign
Allies
Cruiser
Crusader
Matilda
M2 Stewart
M3 Grant

Axis
Panzer I, II, III
Panzer IV
Stug III
Marder II
Panzer VI - Tiger

What did I miss.

Don't forget the Italian tanks.

[C-Mag]

What did I miss.

Don't forget the Italian tanks.

If I could name a piece of Italian equipmet besides the Machhi Fighters, I would have.



But they kind of had some cool camo.

[C-Mag]

A cool page with tons of captured aircraft being utilized by the other side, like this beauty


http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/ ... 4/WTF.aspx

[Montegriffo]

Crazy pink desert Camo

Those pink Spitfires were used for flying reconnaissance missions at sunset and sunrise under the clouds and were therefore probably not used in the desert war where cloud cover was rare.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5872484/why-worl ... camouflage

The pink, slightly too washed-out to be an actual baby pink, still seems bright enough to signal every enemy within five miles. This is certainly true when the Spitfires were seen from above. They stand out brightly against the ground. To make sure they were rarely seen from above, these planes were painted to fly just under cloud cover. Although the planes were ideally meant to fly at sunset and sunrise, when the clouds took on a pinkish hue and made the plane completely invisible against them, they were also useful during the day. Clouds are pinker than we give them credit for. We perceive them as white against the sky because the particles in the sky scatter blue light, sending some of it down towards us and letting us see the sky as blue. Clouds scatter every kind of light, and against the intense blue sky look whitish gray. But their color depends on what kind of light gets to them, and what they are floating next to.

Although we see the sky as a radiant blue, the particles are actually filtering out a lot of the blue light that gets down to the earth's surface. When the blue light is scattered, a good deal of it goes right back up into space, which is why the atmosphere of earth glows blue in some pictures. This filters out a good deal of the blue that gets to the clouds. The clouds scatter what they have, which is a spectrum of light with at least some of the blue filtered out, shifting the overall light ever so slightly towards red. Add to that the fact that the water droplets in clouds can diffract light at different angles, and the clouds are often rife with pastel shades of pink, orange, and green. They look white compared to a glowing blue sky, and a quick glance leaves people with the impression that they are white, but a long look should reveal this shifting, if minor, shades. A light pink plane is safer against them than anyone would expect.

[C-Mag]

Crazy pink desert Camo

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You may be right on the plan, I just grabbed the image, thought it was desert pink camo. Thanks for straigtening me out.

[de officiis]

Leopard I for sale...

http://www.milweb.net/webvert/a2365

[TheReal_ND]

Check for cracked plates

Wait. Am I thinking of the Panther? Which one was shit?

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

Crazy pink desert Camo

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You may be right on the plan, I just grabbed the image, thought it was desert pink camo. Thanks for straigtening me out.

[C-Mag]

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You may be right on the plan, I just grabbed the image, thought it was desert pink camo. Thanks for straigtening me out.

Just saw this