German Firefly - Captured Vehicles in Enemy Service

But that looks just like the ones I've seen in the movies!

 

There's something odd about this pic.

 

They are captured tanks (M4 'War Daddy')from Tunisia on a German training ground. There is film of it and they show these 2 and a Panther climbing a gradient and only the Panther made it to the top.

 

Another cool pic in North Afrika.

 

Someone has clearly taken the transmission. Spares must have been in short supply!

 

This one?

 

I've read that captured French tanks and other gear were given to the Romanians before, but this is the first pic of a German captured French tank I've seen.

 

In case y'all were wondering where I came across these pics, try this place out.

Artwork of Armies

 

Sorry, just had to do it.

 

5.Fallschirmjäger Division captured six M4 tanks during the fighting near Wiltz on 19 december 1944.
1945, January, Esch-sur-Sure. M4A3 from 5.Fallschirmjäger Division destroyed in front of “Hotel des Ardennes”
have a glance at: M4 Sherman

 

Not for us.

 

Tsk - After the Wehrmacht in France excelled in 1944 with its brillant tactic of „inverse advance into rearward areas“ (as ignominious retreat is of course a totally alien concept for German Armies- until today), even the allmighty U.S. Army in it´s vain attempts to catch up with the lightning fast Wehrmacht faced severe problems in bringing sufficient spare parts to the front line units via the Red Ball Route

 

The SRY have this in their War Diary for 7 April 1943...

" The enemy had cleared off during the night and we followed Staffs Yeo through the gap at first light. The Bde was directed on Chebret Nourges through the bridgehead and we took over the lead from Staffs Yeo.
Just after we had taken over the lead and got onto some high ground, enemy tanks appeared from the East and swung to meet us. We counted 28 in all, of which twelve were Tigers and eight Shermans [sic]. We got into fairly good hull-down posns and let them advance, hoping that we would get a shoot, but they got into hull-down posns in a wadi below us and it was virtually a stalemate.
Staffs Yeo came up on our right flank and 3RTR had proceeded along on the left and got as far as the road East and West, South of Chebret Nourges. At last light the enemy pulled out and appeared to withdraw to the West. We then formed up in three lines and moved off due South to join up with 3RTR. This move went well until we met a very bad wadi just short of our objective, in which a considerable amount of stuff got stuck, and at 0200hrs we bedded down and waited for first light. During the whole of this move there were enemy columns moving on both of our flanks; they were sending up Verey lights most of the night."

Stanley Christopherson, himself, in his diary mentions that these were Shermans that the Germans had captured...