Weasels in Pacific

[cletrac (RIP)]

And an American one in winter camo scheme. Location not mentioned.

A weasel is tipped over onto its side on a snowbank along the side of a road. A Tenth Mountain Division soldier surveys the situation. Two ski by on the road while others ski past on an elevated path above the snowbank. (1943-1944)
Note: later model M29 with 20" tracks and mudguard

[Roland Koster]

thanks for your replies. Any change they were used in any other colour then white and green? :-)

greetings,

Roland

[Snowy]

Originally Posted by globalkoster

Any change they were used in any other colour then white and green?

Yes, the 3-colour scheme mentioned above. Expanding on this a little, the Zaloga book has two photos (p. 64) of M29Cs on Yellow Beach 1 on Iwo Jima. Although these are both black and white images, the first clearly shows the sand + red brown pattern over OD. The second photo could also be a 3-colour scheme but there are too many people standing between the Weasel and the camera to verify this and only two colours are distinctly visible.

Weasels also came from the Studebaker factory in three white/black camouflage variations- two zig-zag-style, and a spotted pattern.

On eBay at right now are two original Weasel windscreen black/white camo covers which illustrate this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/STUDE...spagenameZWDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/STUDE...spagenameZWDVW

So in summary, Weasels were in OD, white/black, sand/red-brown/OD and probably other colours but I've only ever seen these. My T24 s/n 0046 is in all-over OD which is unusual because all(?) others built at that time were finished in white/black.

Steve.