Dunkirk 1940. Inland. France & Belgium. Photos, some never seen before

Dunkirk 1940. Part 2. Inland France & Belgium. Original wartime photos taken by German troops, some photos/negatives never seen before. From my photo collection.
Copyright Keith Brooker Collection 2018
Part 3 to come.
Keith

 

Hi Keith

Still seems to be a minor problem with sound - interesting to have WSC commenting from the 'other hand point of view'

TD

 

Unbelievable pictures.

 

The Valentine at 8:44 was a bit of surprise!

 

Just testing. It entered service from July 1941

 

Thanks for posting these up. I especially liked the one of the soldier wearing the tin hat ;-)

 

So did I pass??

 

Great pics indeed. Some unusual ones - a Morris 15cwt office truck at 11.02. Can anyone identify the truck at 7.56, or work out what was the purpose of the truck at 10.15.

 

Yes, Top of the class.

 

I think it could be a Albion BY1 with GS body, at 7.56. The guy smoking , " said i just asked for one driver, not who could be first in". The Morris Commercial at 10.15 is a CDSW tractor to tow a AA 40mm Bofors gun, You can see the lockers on the side . Photo taken from one of my original negatives.

Last photo with a German with a British tin hat and a Morris CS8
Keith

 

Morris 15cwt office truck at 11.02
Keith

 

Here is a still from a Pathe film of the CDSW. tractor to towing a AA 40mm Bofors gun.
Keith

 

Part 3 Soon. Beach, Trucks, POWs RAF, KIA not to sure about the last one, but want to show War is not a game.
Keith

 

Great photos thanks for posting videos Keith , quite a few AOS numbers there I haven't seen /noticed before .
Craig

 

Could be! The mudguard looks a bit strange, but it is certainly the nearest of all those 6x4s. I failed to notice the (missing) rear wheel on the CDSW, so was expecting a 4 wheeler!
Chris

 

The mudguard is bent in a little.

 

Some more Original wartime photos from my collection.
Keith.

 

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Some more Original wartime photos from my collection. Germans taking British petrol in cans from a train and filling up there jerry cans . Photo taken in the area of Abbeville 1940.

Keith.
Flimsy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



The flimsy, officially known as the Petrol, Oil and Water can, was a World War II petrol container used by the British Army. They held 4 imperial gallons (18 l; 4.8 US gal) of fuel, which allowed them to be moved by a single person.

The flimsy was well known for leaking; when used in the North African Campaign, some flimsies leaked 20%, and in some cases over 50% of the fuel they carried over a journey. One quartermaster reported that his 70,000 imperial gallons (320,000 l; 84,000 US gal) of fuel had been reduced to just 30,000 over the journey - and was informed that even this was a "good effort".

The problem with the containers was the crimped or soldered seams, which easily split during transportation, especially over the rocky desert terrain in North Africa. Containers were stacked on top of each other during shipping, and the upper layers crushed those below, resulting in fuel flowing freely in the bilges, with the resulting poisoning and fire risks.

The favoured use by soldiers for the flimsy was as a small stove which could be used to heat meals and tea for the crews. A soldier would cut the flimsy in half, fill the bottom half with petrol-soaked sand and balance the other half on top, filled with water. This was known as a Benghazi Boiler or Benghazi Burner, after the embattled town of Benghazi.

Both 4 gallon flimsies and the original 2 gallon cans were replaced by the jerrycan, copied from the much better German design of fuel container.

 

More Original wartime photos from my collection.
1st photo of british trucks left by the BEF.
2nd photo is of germans useing a captured french truck to pull trucks back on to the road.