1944 M29C Weasel

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

I don't know what units - they may well have been engineer units and certainly elements of the 79th Armoured Division - but Weasels were there in February 1945 when we started our assault on the Rhine. At times they and T-16s were almost the only vehicles which could move through the mud.

Interestingly, in the Canadian War Museum there's a Weasel which unaccountably is marked in the colours of the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment. I don't know whether that's someone's post-war imagination or whether the Regiment "acquired" it like they did with their one C15TA... perhaps Bill Miller may have run across it in the records he's been researching? I'll see if I can dig up a picture of it.

Have you pictures of yours, Rob?