- Pzkpfw-ehttp://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=129335
An interesting mix of French & American afvs, guns & soft skins.
- Doug_Kibbey- Pzkpfw-ehttp://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=129335
An interesting mix of French & American afvs, guns & soft skins.
The comments to the effect of the AMX mounting a Panther gun were most illuminating.
- Smashy
Not as interesting as the names of the children...
- P_J_SMITHThe first German immigration to Venezuela was in the early 1500s.
Currently, Venezuela has a very large number of some 50,000 ethnic Germans, many being descendants of Germans who settled there in the 1840s. Some use a German dialect that is distinct from "standard" German to the point of the different dialect speakers being unintelligible to each other.
So, Magdalena and Wilhelm are really not unique names for there. Magdalena has a number of variations including Lena or Lina depending on the continent. I had a great-aunt named Magdalena, whom we called Lina.
Who can forget the flawed Lina Lemont in SINGING IN THE RAIN?
Wilhelm is also the inspiration for naming Little Willy in Britain during WWI. Which ties us back to the AFVs.
- Doug_Kibbey- Pzkpfw-ehttp://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=129335
An interesting mix of French & American afvs, guns & soft skins.
The comments to the effect of the AMX mounting a Panther gun were most illuminating.
I like the 5-ton with what looks like the turret from an M-42 Duster...one hell of a gun truck!
- tanker2010The AMX-13 didn't use a "Panther gun". It used a 75MM gun the French developed from the German 75MM used in the Panthet. In a strange twist of fate it was later used by the IDF in the M-50 Sherman.
I like the 5-ton with what looks like the turret from an M-42 Duster...one hell of a gun truck!
It's not a 5 ton, it's a M35 2 1/2 ton.
- TanklordI like the 5-ton with what looks like the turret from an M-42 Duster...one hell of a gun truck!
- bialy-r- TanklordI like the 5-ton with what looks like the turret from an M-42 Duster...one hell of a gun truck!
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