Schlitten; various

[sapper740]

In his book, "The Forgotten Soldier" Guy Sajer relates how the Germans would hitch trucks to the back of Panzers when the mud or snow got too deep to allow forward progress on the truck's motive power alone. In the Post War era, the Canadian Army would connect their M37CDNs into a train for fording rivers. If one stalled out, the others would hopefully, keep running. I've found three pictures on the Internet of various German Schlitten, all of which appear to have been used operationally. The first is similar to the two wheeled dollies one can rent from U-Haul, where just the front wheels of the towed vehicle are off the ground, although, of , course this is a sled. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't show the front of sled, but it apparently is tapering to a hitch of some sort, I'll wager. Questions? Comments? Concerns?

First pic: