Trailers – The Weald Foundation https://www.wealdfoundation.org Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:12:54 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Infanterieanhänger IF-8 https://www.wealdfoundation.org/collection/infanterieanhanger-if-8/ Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:30:48 +0000 https://www.wealdfoundation.org/?post_type=collection&p=328 One of the many non-motorised items of German wheeled transport in WWII was the Infantry Trailer IF-8. The initial specification for the IF-8 is unknown. The other armies of WWII had similar trailers, but in most of these armies they appeared to have been issued in the main to specialist troops; such as paratroopers and…

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]]> Panjewagen https://www.wealdfoundation.org/collection/panjewagen/ Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:31:33 +0000 https://www.wealdfoundation.org/?post_type=collection&p=330 The image of the Blitzkrieg is one of swathes of massed armour and mobile forces scything across Poland, Belgium, France and Russia. Although not entirely untrue, an often over looked fact is that throughout the war the German army was primarily a horse-drawn army. People describe one of their overriding impressions of encounters with the…

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