Captured F15 image

[Colin Macgregor Stevens]

I agree with Dadvid that this vehicle was lilkely captured in North Africa from the British. Note the Afrika Korps palm tree and swastika on the door.

The photo is a very good one of a captured CMP in North Africa. If you look in the Ballentine's books and books about the Afrika Korps you will find photos of other captured Canadian made vehicles such as a burning C60L with a broken back, a 3 ton with Nazi flag on the bonnet. Bart Vandreveen showed a captured Dodge D8A in North Africa.

WWII reenactors should note that CMPs are a LOT cheaper than original German WWII trucks, and a lot more accurate than post-war Russian, German etc.

I believe the gun is a 2 cm (aka 20 mm to North America and UK) Flak 30 model. My reference books on the 20mm are in storage, but here is a web site dealing with the Afrika Korps use of the 2 cm Flak 30.
http://cosmos.oninetspeed.pt/dak/dak/flak20mm30.htm

As I recall there is a photo of a captured Flak 30 (?) in the back of a CMP 15 Cwt Cab 12 in the back photo section of Bill Gregg's edition of the 1944 Data Book. That gun is manned by Canadian soldiers, though the travese would be very limited.

For general info on 2 cm (20mm) guns by Canada and UK, see my web page:
http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/20_mm_aa_guns.htm

Here is a photo of a Canadian made truck with a British Polsten gun mounted. Note the low sides for clearance. Tha cab roof is on (in rains in the UK I hear) but there is a stop rail to keep the gunner from parting the driver's hair.
http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net/images/20...screenV4N2.jpg