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Israeli Half-track SPG to identify please
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the_shadock
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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 2:39 pm
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Here are few photos I took at the V2 Bunker museum at Eperlecques, France. There was a lot of artillery and this Half-track, which I suppose carried an AT gun or a howitzer. Could you please identify it?

Half-track at Eperlecques

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: Re: Half-track SPG to identify please
WAG : United States M3 half-track ?

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject: Re: Half-track SPG to identify please
interesting, doesn't look exactly like anything, even checked my Hunnicutt. Normally whole front of cab folded down without a seprate drivers compartment, maybe a field mod or mod by a foreign user? Jeff Lewis

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject: Re: Half-track SPG to identify please
Possibly an Israeli mod? _________________ Cheers John

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: Re: Half-track SPG to identify please
Its an Israeli Zahlen... looks like the 90mm version. _________________ TTFN Jim If your not a member of JED then your not serious about anything military.. ********************* www.jedsite.info JED Military Equipment ********************* Last edited by JimWeb on Wed May 16, 2007 6:49 pm; edited 2 times in total

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: Re: Half-track SPG to identify please
This is a decent site: www.israeli-weapons.co...m3/m3.html Neil

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: Half-track SPG to identify please
- JimWeb Its an Israeli Zahlen... looks like the 90mm version. Hmm I should mention that the gun is actually missing... IIRC they were six-pounders fitted with a 90mm barrel. Anyone confirm this? _________________ TTFN Jim If your not a member of JED then your not serious about anything military.. ********************* www.jedsite.info JED Military Equipment *********************

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Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 7:47 pm
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I mentioned on the website that it is an "Israelian M3 Half-track with 90mm anti-tank gun", referring to the description made on this website :

http://www.balagan.org.uk/war/ai/weapons.htm

"M3 Half-track with 90mm anti-tank gun

The Israelis converted some M3 half-tracks into tank destroyers by adding a French 90mm DEFA F1 gun. (Ian Clarke emailed me to say the halftracks with the defa 90 mm gun were used on the Golan heights in 1967) "

I think that this description should fit to the vehicle, but I wonder what's the real name of this vehicle in the Israeli official classification..

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