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Winter gear, thank goodness.
Bob
Yuk...winter warfare...even with winter kit it sucks.
Do you have a date for the picture please Mark?
No date, I was searching on Belgium so this would put in December-January 1944Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
Snow started showing up around 19 December if that helps
It does look cooold!!
--fjruple
Around the Battle of the Bulge time then.
So would those U.S. cargo trucks in the 2nd photo be diesel or petrol powered? If diesel I'm guessing that they would be having problems with the fuel freezing/waxing.
I'm guessing petrol powered and not diesel because the one facing the wrong way at the side of the road has a 'GASLOLINE' sign on its front end. I'd guess they were using it (that truck) as a mobile filling station, hence the sign.
That's the way I took it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul S.
I didn't notice the gasoline sign probably due to the small screen of my lap top and so assumed that the truck on the side had simply broken down.
During WWII just about all US Army vehicles were gassers. Some were manufactured for diesel and these diesel powered vehicles were shipped to the allies. Only after WWII did the US start to use multi-fuel engines.
--fjruple