Do my eyes deceive me or is this a French dodge "tanaka" ? It was apparently used by the MO of the Australian Divisional cavalry. I assume it was borrowed in Syria.

dodge truck

Four unidentified soldiers standing on their Ford prime movers, which are attached to the 24th, Australian Field Park Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), 9th Australian Infantry Division. The vehicles are seven ton 4x4 General Service semi-trailer tractors, which have all have been fitted with Marmon Herrington all-wheel-drive kits. They are possibly transporting panel bridging equipment. The two outer trucks are 1939 models, the centre truck is a 1941 model, Army Registration Number AIF LX3169.  Syria c 1941 - 1942

Australian Fords Syria c 1941 

RAAF Squadron Leader P.A.S. Payne and Flight Sergeant E.M. Potts climb aboard an Italian co-Belligerent Air Force Cant-Z-506 Airone float plane which rescued them after they had been forced to ditch their Beaufighter aircraft following engine trouble during an anti-shipping sweep with other aircraft off the coast of Northern Greece, January 1945. Victor Sierra