However, the Germans seemed to practice this sort of opportunism more than the Allies.Ī captured P-51 being used at Rechlin.While the weapons were not superior to their own, sometimes something is better than nothing.
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Others, the Germans simply used in the field.Ī captured He-111H at an airfield in England sometime in 1945 (colorized).The Allies used captured weapons and ships and so forth, too. I like the German staff car in the background.Some captured weapons were used at testing facilities to determine their strengths and vulnerabilities. One thing is for certain, they are not standard panzers. Pictured are maybe an IS-2, an I-70, a Sherman. There were very, very few locations at the time which would have had running German, Soviet, British and US tanks in the same place - and, in fact, there still are very few such places.Īnother view of the Wehrmacht's collection of captured tanks at Kummersdorf. This likely was toward the end of the war, circa mid-1944. There appear to be a T-34, a Churchill with wading gear, and some Shermans. This apparently is the Kummersdorf test facility north of Berlin. An underlying theme of World War II is how often an advancing army captured huge stockpiles of enemy weapons and supplies.Ī German tank park composed entirely of captured weapons.
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Allied planes would make belly landings after developing one sort of issue or another, or bases would be overrun.
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The Germans captured all sorts of weapons, for instance, even as the Wehrmacht was in full retreat.