NEW THIS WEEK – MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2009

Hi and welcome to another late weekly report of what’s new on Miliblog this week.

Sorry but scanning over 500 photos of the Eastern Front certain takes a load of time and so the report this week is just a short one. Below are some samples of the photos we have added to the Eastern Front Collection with the first one showing two soldiers using a local hand cart to transport their radio. Useful photo for modellers who may want to reconstruct this scene in miniature and also shows detail of the army radio. Next we have a nice Horch field car stuck in the deep snow and illustrates just how hard the conditions were. Following that is a photo of an early Russian T-34 tank with it’s turret completely blown off.  We often think of huge columns of motorised transport heading East in the invasion of Russia in 1941, but this next photo reminds us that a great part of the German Army’s transport consisted of horses. There have been many stories of good strong farm-horses being conscripted from farms all over Germany and Austria to be used to pull wagons on the Eastern Front and I think this photo just illustrates what we have been talking about.  Next photo is one for the modellers and shows a strongpoint made from logs. Who knows, we may even see a copy of this at the War and Peace Show in Kent next July ! And the final sample photo this week shows a nice convoy of Opel and Mercedes 3 Tonners, but in better weather. Again another interesting photo for our modelling friends as it shows just how the canvas cover hangs loose on the truck.  

So it’s back to my trusty scanner and wish you all well !

Cheerio !

Simon 

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