Captured F15 image

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I am grateful Mr Yeo! However I have two replies:

1. Despite the ruination of the left-behind trucks, the Germans had the wherewithal and facilities to rebuild the thousands of allied trucks and cars left behind after the fall of France, and this work was contracted to various Ford Plants in Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Poissy, plus General Motors in Antwerp and Gennavilliers. GM had a contract for non-Ford vehicles and engines, as well as Chevrolet, GMC, Bedford. That said the truck looks too nice, neat and tidy and shows no sign of any rebuild into an Umschauwagen. I believe that it is well-known that vehicles captured in France and the Low Countries ended up in North Africa, so the location I would have thought was no guide here. Perhaps others can confirm either way please?

2. I believe that this truck was one of the 3,000 delivered to Alexandria in early 1941 onwards under Contract S/M 2002. Capture in North Africa makes much more sense.

Thanks for stimulating my thought processes.