Early CMPs in NW Europe

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Philippe Jeanneau

Post# 86 looks like a 1940 (1.5 ton) Chevrolet, being used by the SS... It may very well be Eastern Europe. Very interesting to see a captured British vehicle brought back from the desert and still in use...

Rick Cove's picture has the file name "1st Panzer Div", this may be a clue?

The German did not take captured vehicles with them when they retreated from North Africa. They barely had enough shipping available for the soldiers and armoured vehicles. So if this is Eastern Europe, the truck must have come from elswehere.

Originally Posted by lynx42

Not sure if this is Europe of Russia. The front or main truck is also interesting, I love the sand tyres in the mud.



Regards Rick.

[Bob Carriere]

Leassed to the Russian who shared with the German army.......

Amazing that some vehicles made it from North Afrika to Italy than shipped to Southern France and then driven to the Holland for battle...... the amazing number of cab 12 that survived is amazing and a testament to their strong built and ongoing field repairs..... basically if it ran it was used in battle..... all the while the new accumulating vehicle inventory sat in fields in England with limited means to move them to the front fast enough..... but GM and Ford and others still cranked them out.....

Bob C

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Here’s a Cab 11 in postwar civilian service, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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[Larry Hayward]

Has anyone found any early CMPs with wooden bodies in NW Europe 1944-45?

BTW - I think the F30 (Registration PFF503) posted awhile ago by Hanno is a later No.12 Cab vehicle with a donated early body and not built like that

(Hanno I have sent you a PM)

[Alex van de Wetering]

An early FAT in Nederweert, 1944.

source; IWM, https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ect/1060008525

[Alex van de Wetering]

F15A cab 12 with missing bonnet and retro-fitted roof hatch in Fécamp (France), september 1944.
The truck has a census number starting with "42" which would indicate a Canadian unit, yet the guys in the back are no. 47 Royal Marine Commando.

source:https://erenow.net/ww/47-royal-marin...43-1946/14.php

[Alex van de Wetering]

The first 4 pictures are all showing the evacuation of people from Venray during the battle around Overloon and Venray in 1944. The pictures show at least two different F60L Cab 12's (see the second one in the background of the first picture)

First picture source: https://www.wegnaardebevrijding.nl/?...=noord-limburg
picture 2,3,4 source: https://www.deurnewiki.nl/wiki/index...ch=&fulltext=1

The last picture shows a monkey face in the background, on the deck of an LST. source:https://theddaystory.com/

Alex