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Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

Perhaps a Horch.  Kfz15, a later model without the external spare tires? 


Finally found a photo of an actual vehicle (vice plastic models).
 
Close enough.....
Horch-901C, 1941, 4x4, V8-cyl, 3,8 L, 92hp
Sidemounted spares were on the earlier models..

Your turn
 
Gendron AM39-P

A short-range reconnaissance armored car designed in 1934. The Gendron AM39 was accepted for service in September 1939 and 150 were ordered. No details are known as to any that saw actual service.

 
stegner said:
Sd.Kfz Armoured Car
SdKfz stood for Sonderkraftfahrzeug or ‘special-purpose vehicle'.  SdKfz designations were assigned (in German useage) to armored vehicles and other vehicles put in military service for a specific purpose.  Since a complete designation would include numerals to identify the vehicle, No.  See here for list of SdKfz designations.



Larry Strong said:
Gendron AM39-P

You got it.
 
SdKfz.301 Borgward IV Ausf. C Wanze,
in use by the Russians in Berlin, 1945.

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/articles/wanze.htm

the schwere LadungstrÃeger SdKfz. 301 Borgward IV was as the conversion, known as Wanze (Borgward B IV Ausführung mit Raketenpanzerbüchse 54), armed with a battery consisting of six 8.8cm Raketenpanzerbüchse 54/1. This was undoubtly one of the characteristic vehicles created by combination of new arms with already existing chassis. This resulted in more or less exotic "interim solution" vehicles, created by the desperate situation and the lack of resources Germany suffered from in early 1945. Wanze was clearly an "interim solution" vehicle, built for the remaining ill-equipped troops of the German army. The basis for developing such vehicle was a small and easy maneuvered panzerjäger which were to be issued to the troops defending industrial areas and cities classified by Hitler as "festungs" - fortresses. These were to be sent out against the never stopping masses of enemy armor advancing towards Berlin in the last months of the war. There was always a shortage of running panzerjägers, e.g in February of 1945 the kommandant of Festung Breslau (Wroclaw) had only single Jagdpanzer IV, eight StuG IIIs and few PzKpfw IIs in his first kompanie der PanzerjÃeger Abteilung Breslau. The second, third and forth companies were exclusively equipped with Panzerschreck and Panzerfausts.

 
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