One of the two Australian Army Weasels recovered

[Snowy]

A couple more photos as there seems to be a 10 image limit per post





Steve.

[Snowy]

Alex,
That is a good question. According to Crismon's Tracked (p.215) they relate to 'some classified tests carried out at Aberdeen'. I don't know what they were. They might be for a parachute harness but I think I read somewhere it might have been for crevasse detecting equipment. We recovered one of these side plates with this Weasel with the remains of the camouflage across it, it is very heavy so no wonder they were removed.

By the way, on the wonderful RealMilitaryFlix website there are a couple Weasel films, one shows a T15 being air dropped from a C-54.

Steve.

[Mike K]

Apparently, this example lives down here in Victoria somewhere . The pic was emailed to me by a local VMVC member . I've seen old footage of them being used by ANARE ( Australian Antartic division ), down at the Antartic bases , during the 1950's . I think one or two were used in the NSW snowy mountains ski fields many years ago.

Mike