LVT
The story sounds a little bit strange - anyway, but your assumption is correct:
Somebody informed me once, that he had seen a foto of German WW2 tanks in the desert in somebody elses house....etc.
It took me about 2 months to go back the line and get at least a b/w fotocopy of the foto. already there, even only seeing a part of the vehicle, it was quiet clear to me, that it can not be of German origin.
Some weeks later I met the man whose uncle shot the foto. We went there one day and found ---- LVTs.
Most of them have been shot to pieces by many different calibres of weapons. This was suspicious for me. It makes no sense to shoot the same vehicle several times.
The next thing: Why somebody should drive such vehicle deep into the desert?
The conclusion I have found much later: After WW2 the britisch as well as the US-forces have maintained big airforce-bases in Libya. For ground-attack training they used old vehicles, which they have placed out in the desert.
That is all about!
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