Semovente M40 75/18 in Tunisia

[Kuno]

Hi Colin; I can understand that you are excited about the picture - felt the sae in the beginning and would have liked just to drive there...

Please allow some comments to your above statements:

1) What brings you to the conclusion that the photographer was of German nationality? I would say, that even it would not matter - he was taking the pictures on the US-side.

2) Note the distance of the position of the photographer to the Semovente is different. Whilst for the b/w pic he is standing away, for the color pic he is standing just at the wall. Therefore we can see the fallen down stones.

3) That tools etc. are missing on the color pic is no wonder - whatever was useable had been removed immediately. Either - if possible- by the former owner, by the enemy or... by the local population.

4) The gun does actually look more like a flamethrower than a gun. Easy to be missinterpreted. Presume that the text to the photo might be provided by somebody else than the photographer. If you are familiar with war-participants photo-abums, then you can see, how often they made completely wrong captions to their own pictures.