Wednesday, 28 February 2024

CAMOUFLAGE MEA CULPA - 1930s PAPER SOLDIERS

After the embarrassment of "the three colour camouflage mea culpa", some images in further evidence, drawn from contemporaneous sheets of paper soldiers:

German Reconnaissance Troops. Probably early 1930s on the basis of the three
colour camouflage and the absence of armoured cars. All these troops wear gasmasks.

More familiar German armoured cars - Kfz 13, Sdkfz 221, 231, 232 -
 but all still in pre - July 1937 three colour camo. It is likely that any
German vehicles shipped to the Hereford VBCW in 1938 would 
still be in this camouflage scheme.

The motorcyclists are back, accompanied by a "dinky" armoured car, probably a Kfz13 with
a little artist's licence. While the Kfz13 is still in three colour camo, the motorcycles are now 
in "panzergrau" - save for the three colour panniers! Images probably, therefore, late 1937.

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