Blitz (and related) bits on Ebay Australia

[Ryan]

Blitz LWB 1945:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/WW2-1945-PHOT...item19c00db004

And a daimond T, but what is it carrying? Is it a matilda mine clearer?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/WW2-1945-PHOT...item19c00dcf46

[colin jones]

No Ryan, It is carrying 2 padfoot rollers
Colin.

[cliff]

Originally Posted by Ryan

Blitz LWB 1945:

And a daimond T, but what is it carrying? Is it a matilda mine clearer?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/WW2-1945-PHOT...item19c00dcf46

The main equipment is a concrete batching & laying machine for airfields. This photo shows the RAAF construction unit being loaded prior to shipment to Japan as part of the occupational Force.

[Ryan]

Cheers guys, seems I was letting my imagination run free.

[Ryan]

c60l:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Chev-Blitz-Ti...item27b59f88d2

chev heads:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GM-CHEV-strai...item3cb17742d4

winch:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BLITZ-Chev-To...item230ab704e2

[aj.lec]

Originally Posted by Ryan

c60l: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Chev-Blitz-Ti...item27b59f88d2

If anyone is interested in this C60S I will be in the mudgee area on thursday if anyone wants better pictures or descriptions .PM me and I will see if owner will be available for a viewing

[2nd AIF]

No connection with the seller
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....STRK:MESELX:IT

[Ryan]

F15 drivers handbook:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Ford-Blitz-Dr...item2c58667f78

Chev boots x20:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/CHEV-BLITZ-WA...item3f045b2373

Chev boots x17:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/CHEVROLET-TRU...item4153f85ce6

no connections

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Ryan

And a daimond T, but what is it carrying? Is it a matilda mine clearer?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/WW2-1945-PHOT...item19c00dcf46

For future reference:

WW2 1945 PHOTO LOADING RAAF TRUCK INVASION OF TARAKAN
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DESCRIPTION:

We offer for your consideration an original WW2 1945 photo of the loading of an RAAF truck into a landing craft ready for transportation from Morotai Island for the invasion of Tarakan, Borneo. Note that the truck is carrying a heavy grader for the making of an airstrip for RAAF planes. The truck weighs 23 tons. The Australian invasion of North Borneo was as much a political exercise as it was a military one:

The decision by the Allies to invade Borneo in 1945 was for the most part political. It had only marginal strategic value. General Douglas MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces in the South-West Pacific Area, planned the operation partly to alleviate concerns of the Australian government that its forces were being relegated to operational backwaters, as New Guinea had become. MacArthur had largely left Australian forces out of the most significant operation of this stage of the war – the liberation of the Philippines – with only some warships and a few air force units taking part. The invasion of Borneo was intended to make Australian forces more visible again in pressing home the war against Japan.