Italian-built L6/40 light tank in German markings, Balkans, Winter 1944/'45.  L6/40 machines joined other second line deployment captured tanks in supporting the extensive German anti-partisan operation in the Balkans when, following the fall of Mussolini, they were appropriated from the Italians.  Best regards, JR.

German L6/40

Units of the  2nd Panzer Group Wehrmacht trying to cross  a  water obstacle. In the foreground, assault gun StuG III Ausf.C /D from the 177th battalion of assault guns (Sturmgeschütz-Abt. 177).In the background car Bussing-Nag G31 with the  emblem of the 2nd Panzer Group («G» - Guderian) on the right wing.End of pktober 1941.


greetz,brummbar

Slow going

Italy, September 1943: Italian-built gun tractor SPA 41s seized by the Germans after the Italy’s surrender towing 88mm gun. After the King of Italy’s armistice, 8 September 1943, the Germans seized a conspicuous spoils of the Italian Armed Forces equipment many of them very valuable for the Wehrmacht. As, for example, 15,500 motor vehicles of various types largely immediately put on for replenish loss and attrition (Bundesarchiv Bild 1011-570-1604-21A). Victor Sierra