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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: War In 15MM on July 20, 2021, 04:15:56 AM
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I have been painting vehicles for my early North Africa campaign, and I have noticed that two of the Dorchester armored command vehicles painted in the Caunter Scheme have large white numbers on them. One has a large white 3. The other has a large white 5. Can someone tell me the name of the commanders whose vehicles these are? Thank you.
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They belonged to Rommel!
However he wasn't the original owner. https://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/vehicles/afvclub/af35227.html has some details on those particular machines.
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Thank you. I am aware that the Germans captured three Dorchesters in North Africa. Numbers 3 and 5 are probably two of them, but whose Dorchesters were they before Rommel? I think the British also numbered a Dorchester with a large white 1 and another with a large white 2. What British commander or unit were those linked to?
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I now for certain that the Dorchester with the large white 2 is one of the three captured by the Germans in North Africa. I believe that 3 and 5 are the other two captured by the Germans. Unfortunately, I have no information as to what other Dochesters that remained in British service in North Africa carried large white singlel digit numbers. It's looking more like I will be learning my British Dorchesters without that numbering system.
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The link above says that the Dorchesters with the large white numbers were from the 2nd Armoured Division (towards the bottom in the decals section)
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Fred, thank you for pulling me back to that. It appears that the three Dorchesters that were captured are No. 1, No. 2 (I've seen a photo of it with the 2 and a German cross) and No. 3. That makes since and the info you took me back to shows that No. 5 was not captured. This is really good. Thank you very much.