Captured German Staff Car
 

A captured German Mercedes Benz staff car.

Pic from AWM data banks and dated 1942

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Cliff:salute:

Hi Cliff:
Interesting shot, but it is actually a Horch Standard Medium Personnel Car.
Bill

Thanks for the correct ID Bill. They have it marked as a Mercedes in the AWM Data banks.

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Cliff:salute:

Just one question.....are they waving or sieg heiling??!!?

are they sieg heiling?
 

Australians at their best: "taking the piss out of the enemy":salute:

Horch
 

I agree with Dog Robber. Horch 1940 Sd Kfz 16.

Another Horch
 

Here is another Kfz 16. They were built 1940-1943.

Not quite a staff car. Note the Cdn Divisional sign on the front and the perfectly aligned Allied recognition star - no desire to upset marauding US troops here!
http://www.servicepub.com/images/schwimmwagen.jpg

Interesting pic Clive! The troopies have not only absconded with a Schwimmvagen, but obviously some weapons also. Can anyone id the rifle the the soldier in the middle is holding?

It's a G43 (Gewehr Pattern 1943) one of the first successful semi-automatics used during the war (US M1 Rifle (Garand) and M1 Carbine being two others)

...the Kfz 16 is in fact a Kfz 15...:teach:

Kfz 15
 

I thought Kfz 15 had the spare weels on the car sides. This should be a Kfz 15. They were made 1937-1940 and was followed by the similar Kfz 16 (except for the spare wheels).

Its an early pattern Schwimmwagen too; understandably the new users have put their national insignia over the original markings but it would have been interesting to have seen what unit it was liberated from.

R.