Model AA's at War

Stretch Cab

Stretch Cab

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I found this picture while transfering some old slides into a digital format. I took the picture 33 years ago in Denmark. I believe it was at a park near the famous little mermaid statue but not sure. Anyway, as I remember this AA was converted into an armoured vehicle for the Dutch resistance. Note the boiler or water tank in back for the gun turret. Can you imagine what kind of ride you would have had in that tank! Anybody else out there seen this? Sorry for the bad picture, the original wasn't good either.
 

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A Russian friend of mine asked me once after seeing my photos of a number of AA's at our local Model A Day,
"Why do you have Russian Trucks at your event?
I explained the Ford / Gaz relationship to him.
His Dad, by the way, was the Tank Colonel whose unit of T-74's had the daisys in their barrels when the KGB tried to end the Peristroika, Glastnos thing, and this unit supported the reform policies backed by our government.

He had, of course, also seen those columns of GAZ trucks crossing the frozen lake to Leningrad in the 1942 newsreels.
 
heres a 68C from switzerland with a similar contraption
tom
 

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Some Russian trucks were Studebakers (Rus. Villisyes sp) Also, he would have recognised prewar International Tractors which were shipped to Stalin in large numbers.
Terry



Bruce Adams said:
A Russian friend of mine asked me once after seeing my photos of a number of AA's at our local Model A Day,
"Why do you have Russian Trucks at your event?
I explained the Ford / Gaz relationship to him.
His Dad, by the way, was the Tank Colonel whose unit of T-74's had the daisys in their barrels when the KGB tried to end the Peristroika, Glastnos thing, and this unit supported the reform policies backed by our government.

He had, of course, also seen those columns of GAZ trucks crossing the frozen lake to Leningrad in the 1942 newsreels.
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Stretch Cab,

Your photo was taken out front of the Danish Resistance Musem located in Copenhagen, Denmark. The vehicle was used by the Danish (not Dutch) resistance during WWII.

You can find out more about the museum at the web site: http://www.nationalmuseet.dk/sw23424.asp

Here is a more recent photo of the up-armored AA truck.
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When I inspected the truck several years ago, it had no engine in it. The turret on the back was just that, an armored turret.....and not a wood gas generator (as shown in Tom's photo of the Cabriolet in Switzerland).

If you have a chance to visit the museum, they published a small booklet about the truck, giving the details and photos of where and how it was used in the resistance movement.

The inscription on the front means "Free Denmark"

Fordially,
Brad in Germany
 
All that armor plate and the tires are left exposed?
Is there an explanation of how the "turret" was used?
A guy with a machine pistol?
 
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