> USS Stewart was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II>Scuttled in port at Surabaya, Java, she was later raised by the Japanese and commissioned as Patrol Boat No. 102. >She came back under American control in 1945
A trio of captured soviet panther tanks
>>64220119>clempus
>>64220337>LSPOO
>>64220352The Italians always built the most /aesthetic/ ships
A burger marine clears a Fallujah house with a PPSH he took off an insurgent
Crewmen of USS Iowa take possession of the formerly Japanese battleship Nagato.
>>64220941Sailing this thing back across the pacific must have been a wild exprience
>>64220953It never got all the way across.
L3/35 Italian tank found by American soldiers in Iraq.
>>64220119>Park a warship and walk away for a minute>Japs run up and bolt their flower bow ornament on, slap 25mm guns all over the deck, and trunk the funnels
>>64221094Can't have shit in the pacific
>>64221094Its worse than that>Stewart is badly damaged and nearly sinks fighting the japs off Java>She is drydocked for repairs>Civilian brownoid yard crew is supposed to put her on keelblocks>The retards fuck it up and she falls on her side as the drydock is drained>Japs are on the island and closing in fast>US Navy crew flees and leaves the SEAmonkeys with some explosives to destroy her>They fuck it up and only partly suceed>The Japs fix the emtire drydock and get a free WW1 era DD out of brown incompetence >She later helps to sink an American submarine with the loss of all hands
>>64221163Very interesting story though. Never heard of it. Now I kind of want to build a model of her, or at least see her in a game. Too bad there's no examples of four stalker DDs left besides wrecks.
>>64220119Here's an advanced one: a Chinook that was sold to (pre-revolution) Iran, captured by the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq war, and then destroyed by US forces in the invasion of Iraq.
>>64221094Actually destroyers did not have the bow flower as far as i know.anyway, have a row of former american Stuart tanks in the emperors service.
Destroyer ZG3, also known as Hermes, formerly known as Vasilefs Georgios, Greek destroyer captured during the invasion of Greece and used by the German Navy. it was the only destroyer used by the Krauts in the Mediterranean (technically later they caputred a few french and italian ones, but the classed those as torpedo boats).Mostly user for convoy escorts until it was damaged by an airstrike and scuttled in low waters
German captured T-34 in original captured condition and after German modifications 1/2
>>64222009It also had bow stripes, like italian destroyers
2/2
>>64220119
Two Soviet T-70 and a French Hotchkiss H-35 in German service.
Cool thread
"Cuckoo", captured panther in the service of the 4th Coldstream Guards.
Polish TKS tankettes used by Germans
>>64225042
captured Panther used by Polish Home Army
>>64225049Why didn't they use an anchor as marking?
>>64225142It had anchor on the front, but i can't find any good photos with it
>>64221980Where'd the Japs get ahold of a bunch of Stuarts?
A boarding party from USS Pillsbury prepares captured German submarine U-505 for towing. U-505 can today be found at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
French Canon de 155 mm GPF in German service.
Captured Soviet 152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20) as part of the Atlantic Wall defences.
>>64221054>>64221060hey I remember that. Pretty funny to see the sandpeople riding around in old Italian tankettes. I had the chance of seeing one myself and I cant fathom how these guys would sit inside one of em in the afghan heat. How they even got em to start is something I wonder
Italian AB 41 armored cars in German service.
>>64225255I wanna visit this thing >>64225216>US Army sends 100 of them to the Philippines just before the Japanese invade>MacArthur in all of his tactical brilliance stores most of his tank fuel in one big ass fuel depot>The Japanese know this and immediately blow it the fuck up >Also leaves all of his planes on the ground when jap bombers show up so no air support >100 American tanks with no fuel, no fighter cover, and little ammo >congratulationsyouplayedyourself.gif>They’re nothing more than paperweights when the IJA gets thereI’m convinced that the Philippines as a whole could have been held and that MacArthur was just a fucking idiot.
>>64225289Kek, i guess they're just used to the heat. I would pull the AC system off some old car and try to finagle it in there
>>64222074What’s the story with these?
>>64225417The Japanese should have reverse engineered these things desu.
French AMR 35 light tank converted into a mortar carrier by the Germans.
>>64225361probably captured in the Philippines
>>64225361https://j-aircraft.com/captured/capturedby/p40warhawk/captured_p40.htm
>>64225426They had the designs but not materials and fuel
>>64225255I have a feeling it's haunted simply because the captain blew his head off during severe depth charging.
>>64225339It was cool, can recommend the entire museum. You can even get to walk through the U-boat
>>64225921btw I know that U-505 is a type IX submarine but I wonder if any type VIIC´s survived the war to become museums, or do we just have to cope with Das Boot movie set they built in Germany?
>>64225939Anon.. your U-995?
>>64226354Cool! I knew there was one VIIC around but I didnt know it was enterable. Yes, im a dumbass.Staying on topic, captured T-34´s in Finnish service after war in 1947. Im not sure if these are Finnish captured ones or the ones that were bought from Germany when they captured them.
>>642265571941s were all Finnish capturesThe one at the forefront is also likely a Finnish capture since it doesn't seem to have a German cupola
>>64226557It is a surprisingly on topic boat, after surrendering to the British in 1945 U-995 was transferred to the Norwegian navy in 1948 and served together with U-926 and U-1202, also Type VIIC ships, until 1965.There is even an existing Type XXI in Hamburg, the U-2540 Wilhelm Bauer. That one was scuttled in 1945, 12 years later the Germans raised it and repurposed it into a training ship and testbed for the 206 class.
Say a Fletcher class destroyer was sunk scuttled in shallow water and was about 20ft underwater with two 10ft holes one amidship just above the keel and one just along the bow. How much money would it cost to raise and repair the ship. Would it even be worth doing when at the time it cost about ~3million USD?
>>64226697If you US, i guess yes.I remember that after Pearl Harbour, they refloated 2 blown up destroyers, cut them in half (one had blown up stern, other destroyed bow) stitch them together and send to US for repair and refit.
very nice thread OP
>>64227527Ty
>>64226741They got the idea from HMS Zubian.
>>64220352>when you realize that a modernized Italian WW1 dreadnought was the best battleship Russia ever had
>>64229258its even funnier if you consider there were two (mostly) serviceable Littorios up for grabs but the UK/US kept those for themselvesonly to scrap them immediately after signing the war prize/reparations treaty
>>64229264My schizo theory is that Italy had agreed with UK and US under the table to not claim their war prizes since the beginning and have them scrapped in Italy>USSR does not get their hands on modern battleship tech>Italy avoids the shame of having other countries seize their capital shipsAnd (almost) everyone's happy.
7.5 cm Pak 97/38, German AT-gun created by mounting a French Canon de 75 modèle 1897 on the carriage of a 5 cm Pak 38.
Stugs in Norwegian service after WW2.
>>64229739>fighting off bolshevik tanks with a gun that might have turned Onkel Hans into a fine mist at Verdun
Captured German 20mm Flak 38's mounted on trucks by the Soviets.
>>64226647the last surviving Type XXI is in BremerhavenThere are some burried below a parking lot in Hamburg
>>64230540Isn't the Admiral Scheer also buried under a parking lot in Kiel?
>>64230540Oh bugger you're right, it was constructed in Hamburg by B&V, I don't know how I managed to get that mixed up.
>>64229272No theories needed. Neither the RN or USN were ever going to take captured ships into the fleet because such ships are a giant pain in the ass as they have no reliable documentation about anything and no spare parts, gun calibers don't line up, and all the other details that are different. Better to just scrap the things. The Soviets took such ships because they didn't know better and didn't have existing design and supply anyway.
Why did a country lacking the experience and resources to build battleships lay down four Sovietsky Soyuz-class ships?
>>64232165same reason they tried building the Palace of the Soviets
>>64232173>worst building idea of all time>best pool ever madeThe secret to communism is divining what your unsuccessful attempts will result in and work from there.
>>64221094DD-224 — the one that fought for both teams1920 Clemson “four-stacker” joins the Asiatic Fleet, does China Station stuff for yearsJapan kicks off the island-hopping party (not the fun kind)1942: gets mauled in the Bali/Badung Strait mess, limps into Surabayadocks crew up the blocks; Stewart falls off the drydock like a drunk on a barstool, bends shafts, gets demo-charged and abandonedUS strikes her from the list, assumes she’s toastsurprise.jpg — IJN raises her, slaps a trunked funnel on, rebrands as Patrol Boat No. 102spends ’43–’45 escorting for the Japanese Southwest Area Fleet, takes bomb damage, ends up laid-up near Kure1945: Americans roll in, point at the paint job, go “hey, that’s ours”ceremonially recommissioned as DD-224, nicknamed “RAMP-224” (Recovered Allied Military Personnel)towed home when her engines nope out near Guam1946: used as a rocket & guns target off California; shrugs off 18 rockets and a mountain of .50 cal before a PC boat finishes her at 300 yards like Old Yeller with 3-inch gunsabsolute gremlin energyplot twist epilogue: in 2024 they actually found the wreck, remarkably intact ~3,500 ft down off San Franciscoghost ship’s still vibing
Nobody really talks about the Pueblo anymore
>>64232209I keel...
>>64225897
List of equipment South Africans captured on one of their raids into Angola. As they were starved by sanctions, the South Africans were able to sustain a significant portion of their war effort off captured gear.
>>64225339What??? Don't you think the 0.46% of the Philippines' defense budget that MacArthur contractually received as an annual bonus on top of his two other government salaries was money well spent?
The ex-German dreadnought battleship USS Ostfriesland.
USS Prinz Eugen.
>>64220119A captured Czech gun mounted on a captured French tank. Typical Wehrmacht shenanigans.
>>64232931And a captured French gun on a captured Russian tank. Classic Wehrmacht.
>>64232951And of course, a captured Russian gun on a captured Czech tank. Oh, Wehrmacht...
>>64232931>>64232951>>64232954Which leads to my favorite German joke:>Wer macht hier die Logistik?
>>64221163>>US Navy crew flees and leaves the SEAmonkeys with some explosives to destroy her>>They fuck it up and only partly succeedIn their defense, the USN has a centuries-long tradition of warships built like slasher villains.
>>64230866The remaining parts of it, yes. There are also three destroyers (two Akizukis and a smaller one) buried in a Japanese harbor, with the smaller one partially visible.
Finnish-captured ex-Russian T28 going to visit the homeland.
>>64235400
>>64235404
>>64235417
>>64230155Angles & Thickness is fascinating. I wonder if there's a record of what they had for testing and when/against what.
>>64232384o7 CARLOS
>>64220119>Patrol Boat No. 102.Why did they give it a JAV code instead of a proper name?
Italian destoryer Premuda, formerly the Yugoslav Dubrovnik. British built destroyer leader, captured in 1941 alongside two smaller Beograd class destroyers. mostly used for escort missions. captured by the Germs in 43, scuttled in 45
