It occurred to me that I've never seen any pictures of tanks or tank based vehicles with bulldozer blades except for Shermans and Lee/Grants. Where there any? It seems that they would have been useful for the Germans in building their Atlantic Wall, Gustav Line, etc. Thanks Dave
Few to start things off. Centaur: Crusader: Alecto: Seem to recall a thread about German Bulldozer blades on AFVs from a looong while back. I'll have a shufti, but in short, the allies got the infrastructure sorted a bit better, and eventually had things like D7s knocking about. Less need to put a blade on a tank chassis once those were in the supply/support chain.
Ah, Thread came to nothing - funny how the memory works: http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/weapons-technology-equipment/6345-german-tanks-"digging-".html Here's a German 'funny', said to have been used to clear air raid rubble in Nuremberg:
Not a bulldozer as such, but a grader under German ownership doing bulldozer-esque work: Possibly an RSO doing the work, but I'm not 100% happy with the wheels. Doesn't quite fit any Soviet type I've looked at yet.
I'd guess RSO or 250 too. At first I thought it only had three external road wheels per side plus driver and idler but the what I thought was the idler might be the flap of the guys coat pocket. Germans seem to have really missed the boat on dozers, eh?
It´s in fact a SdKfz 11 with the so-called "Grabenwolf" (The Wehrmacht had a gusto for suggestive names) at least a quite little satisfaction for my embarassing L/33 disaster
unsurprisingly you´re right: Type 97 我-JET～AFV忘備録～ Civilian dozer modified from Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank
I was wondering if it might. (And your language skills blow mine out of the water, so I think we'll forgive the odd passing confusion.)
Not sure I've ever seen a Priest with a dozer blade fitted. (Caveat: I don't trust my memory...) Via Caesar on twatter. https://twitter.com/Ninja998998/status/1519620445766488064?s=20&t=aNFnw7PiTk3qHofe38r7aA
