Nice pic
 

Excellent shot, but is it foreground or background? :confused

Here is a rather rare photo. It was taken during the Greek Civil war 1946-49, and shows members of the Hellenic (National) Army at a brake during operations against the communist guerillas, somewhere at central Greece. All of them are dressed with british BD uniforms, pat 37. At the backstage a Chev or a Ford.


Attachment 44953

and one of my favourites beside it, an Austin K3

Αt the current issue of the MILITARY MACHINES/Dec2011 we can find a fine photo collection of wartime German vehicles in Athens-Greece provided by James Payne.

I post one of them below, and I think it's a C15 behind the Krupp-Potze.

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5...nsathensc1.jpg

The sign on the building says (ΕΡΜΗΣ) "ΗΕRMES, Greek Insurance Company, Headquaters", buiding wich survived the War.


:note:

From an old colour film
 

Apologies for the poor quality:

http://gallery.me.com/oldcmp.net/100...13223493170001

Churchill visits North Africa.

And from North Africa
 

Comes this little gem.

http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/uk.../Humber-05.jpg

Source

More from the same page
 

A CGT

http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/uk.../Humber-01.jpg

Looks like the same Cab 12 as in the first shot with the Humber

http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/uk.../Humber-07.jpg

Background and background
 

From the same source:

http://beute.narod.ru/Beutepanzer/uk...iversal-46.jpg

Shanghai China, April 1948 a photo of Jack Birns:

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4...f010766631.jpg


LINK: http://forum.book.sina.com.cn/thread-1606526-1-1.html

Find
 

Great find, well spotted indeed!

Normandy photos.
 

I re-post some very interesting photos Mariano Paz (AKA Luis) posted at the G503.com.forum:

...A C8A HUA!

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3101/48773.jpg

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3101/48772.jpg

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3101/48784.jpg

..a un carrier..
http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3101/48774.jpg

.. and for last one I chose this:

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/3101/44990.jpg

Attachment 48138 Attachment 48139 Attachment 48140 Attachment 48141

3rd photo down from Tony has a 1944 Morris on the far left :).
Keith

In the background or in the forground
 

Hi All

Don't know which you consider to be in the background but a friend just sent me this one that had been post on facebook by MV Mag.

Same Chevy with a heavy tow.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2446/5...5c310239_o.jpg

Same truck..different time..
 

While the truck may be the same truck ,on the top picture it has dual wheels..on the bottom picture it has single rear wheels..
Could it be two different wreckers from the same company...??I can't see the smaller picture well enough for comparison..Nice pictures ..

Interesting pic...
 

...but definitely it's the subject of the image.

Here is a link to the flickr page of Walter Woolfenden, there are some more pictures of the same Chevrolet and other cranes.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/6253277...7626566866369/


Greetz

Hendrik

F60B Bofors
 

This one qualify?

Qualify?
 

It's a great picture, but again the CMPs are the subject of the picture, not just included in the background.

Well this one then.. The foreground is the sad DAF, catches the eye, but the CMP gives the picture extra drama, as being in the background.

Hmmmmm
 

You're starting to get the idea, Theo, but I must say my eye went to the CMP first, and I think that was the photographer's subject too.. :cool:

This is a good example
 

Here's a Wellington as the subject...

http://idisk.me.com/oldcmp.net/Publi...413-191502.jpg

Well I was the photographer! And sure, I know what the subject was. Here is the last one, really in the background but more visible as the one behind the Wimpy..

Photographer
 

Whoops, sorry! :giveup

But you have nailed it with the latest image. :note:

On the basis that the people are the subject :)

Fine,

I like that too

Keefy,

Is that a Mozzie fuselage I see in the background under the nose of the Wellington? It is sitting low and level, so can't be on its undercart.

Nice colour image, too .......

Mike C

Mossie
 

Yes I believe it is... the image has had a bit of retouching done, if you look at how the roundel has been sharpened... I wouldn't be surprised if it has been colourised.

Chalky, do you have more info on these pictures? Do you know where they were taken? Always good to see pics of early CMP's especially 8cwt's!

It sure looks like it. I guess the person retouching it ran out of time while doing the Mosquito :D

Alex