French tank colors in North Africa

[Schogun]

At the beginning of Operation Torch were they the 2-color patches (what colors) or the 3-color horizontal "bars."

Were they painted any differently for Tunisia?

Anyone have information/reference/photos?

Thanks

[Etranger]

The schemes tended to differ for different vehicles anyway, since they were factory painted in batches & the scheme was not necessarily the same for different batches, yet alone for different types. Overpainting in the field tended to not occur.

Chars Francais has a wide selection of photographs under vehicle type & sometimes with location and date of photo where known. It will at least give an idea as to the scheme for a particular vehicle type. For a couple of examples.

AMD50 Laffly, widely used in North Africa. The presence of FFL personnel suggests North Africa. 2 or 3 colour scheme


Another AMD 50, probably from Syria given the British/Australian soldier. Probaly a 3 colour scheme

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[Etranger]

Meant to add Lou P will have lots to add when he spots this topic.

[Keith]

There are quite a few pictures of Australian units climbing over catpured Vichy armour if you google for that.
I think the majority of R35s were the standard Ochre/Olive scheme with black thin outlines. Pretty much the same as examples seen on the Western Front in 1940. Again, you can see this pretty clearly on the captured examples.

[Schogun]

Lou P posted some photos and one illustration in Dec 2018:

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=113804.0