The photos show two unidentified objects of which one, the carriage, is still submerged in a river by Lakselv:
Submerged carriage by Lakselv, presumably from the Wehrmacht. Underwater photo by local diver Odd-Bjørn Henriksen.
From another angle.
My guess is: part of a mobile German field kitchen. What do you think? Perhaps someone even knows the type?
This gasmask looks kind of Soviet 1930s to me. But I have been unable to identify it in my books about Soviet equipment. Does anyone recognize the model?
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Hi Lars
ReplyDeleteIt's an Infanteriekarren lf.8
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=117279&highlight=infantriekarren
http://infanteriekarren.if8.eu/doku.php?id=infanteriekarren_if8
Thanks Simon :) I hope to salvage this next summer :)
ReplyDeleteHi Lars,
ReplyDeleteHope you can read this. At first I thought the gas mask looked very much like an Italian Pirelli or one of its licenced copies, but the lack of a voice emitter soon ruled out that possibility. The mask is made from what seems to be a rubber-impregnated fabric of some sort, which definitely rules out the Soviet hypothesis (they used rubber for all their military anti-NBC equipment). The Swedish gas masks from the same period were rather more sophisticated than the example on your photo, so maybe it is German (large eye pieces); the Finnish M.38 is somehow similar, but has a voice emitter under a membrane. I will try to investigate it further.
Kind regards,
R. Vieira