Some CMPs for Hanno

[Bill Murray]

don't know if these have been posted here or elsewhere, there are so many sites now. Anyway, I had not seen them before so here they are.

Two of what I believe are FAT vehicles and the third is presumably an Indian cabber being pushed by Japanese POWs in Burma I think.
Bill

[Bill Murray]

Next "FAT"

[Bill Murray]

And the Indian one

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally posted by Bill Murray
And the Indian one

Actually, this a CMP recabbed by the Japanese.

Thanks for the pics, Bill!

H.

[Keith Webb]

Originally posted by Bill Murray
don't know if these have been posted here or elsewhere, there are so many sites now. Anyway, I had not seen them before so here they are.

Two of what I believe are FAT vehicles and the third is presumably an Indian cabber being pushed by Japanese POWs in Burma I think.
Bill

The first one is a Chevrolet "Tractors, Artillery, Aust No8" and is one of a series taken in training exercises in Kairi, Queensland.

The second is a F15A "Trucks, 15 CWT GS Aust No1 with the wooden body. It's about to be followed of course by a cab 12 7A2 FAT.

[Bill Murray]

Thank you for the corrections, Keith.

Obviously, I need to be very careful in trying to ID CMPs, whether they be Canadian, Australian or Indian. Just to save a little grace, am I not correct in that at least they were used by the Australian Artillery chaps??

Why I sent these over Hanno's name is that somewhere he had a lot of stuff on Indian Fats that looked at least somewhat like my first one. I have searched several times on this forum and cannot find it. As I recall, they were without all those funny windows the Canadian ones had.

Anyway, interesting photos if you had not seen them before.
Regards
Bill

[Dinty]

G'day Bill, I can accuratley place the second picture, with a vehicle coming off a landing craft etc, that particular location where they are actually landing is Shoal Bay (aka Port Stephens) New South Wales, Australia. in the background to the left is Jimmy's beach following around to the Right of frame is the headland known as Yaccaba, and to the extreme Right is Tomaree. On Tomaree headland there was a radar installation and below in the pic you can see buildings some of which are still there today. I note that the top of Tomaree is not shown possibly to hide the radar installation. I have very fond memories of climbing up to the radar tower when I was young, and going down onto Shoal Bay beach at low tide and pulling out rusty barbed wire, and also going over to Zenith beach (behind Tomaree headland) and digging in the dunes and finding hundreds of spent .303 cartridge cases and very rusty stripper clips. Quite a few of the older structures that housed very large coastal type defence guns are still standing, and the concrete base for the torpedoe tubes that gaurded the harbour entrance are still in place, I could waffle on here for some time re this fascinating place which is about 55 miles from my home, and the things that I can remember from my childhood days spent there in the latter part 1950's. The radr inst was also used to triangulate radio sig's with another tower that was located along Stockton beach(called Ypres) and another further south down near Catherine Hill bay, anyway enough from me i don't think I have any particular pix of that area of the beach but I will endevour to get a shot from roughly the same location, but someone will have to post it I'm a dummy cheers Dennis
PS somewher I have some pix of troops on Tomaree!!

[Tony Smith]

C'mon, Dennis, if you can give us a "Then and Now" picture of a Land Rover on that beach, I'll give you a "Then and Now" of a Jeep in the archway of Victoria Barracks as featured in this thread!