This was taken somewhere on the Western Front (maybe Arras) during the invasion of France in 1940 (colorized).As far as I can determine, these are authentic photographs from the World War II time frame (I extend that liberally through the 1930s because 1930s tanks were used in the conflict, but with a definite termination point of 1945). Three Germans (on the right, in black, is a Panzer commander) pose with a knocked out French AMC Somua S 35 Command tank (serial Nº 10664). I make every effort to cull out any photos that are from post-war movie sets and the like. However, there is something about a color photograph that places a massive tank in context better than a black-and-white photograph does.Ī US M24 Chaffee Tank, taken in 1943.Accordingly, this is a page of World War II tanks in color. In fact, they are painted so as to blend into whatever background they are in. Due to the poor colors in this photo, I would give good odds that it is an original color photograph.Tanks are not particularly colorful. This was a very popular tank for photographers, by the way, and multiple images at different times were taken of it.
The reason so many tanks are photographed on their sides next to roads is that the Allies needed to use the roads for their own operations, so they used tractors to push the tanks off the road and into the ditch that in those days in Europe inevitably lay beside the road. World War II Was A War of Tanks A GMC truck is passing this knocked-out Tiger tank of SpzABt 508 in the vicinity of Rome, Italy, 1944.
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