Yugoslav armor till German Invasion 1941

[Varadero]

Yugoslav (ex-French) Renault-Kegresse M.28 and a Berliet-White M1918. Both from ebay.

[Sid Guttridge]

Hi Varadaro,

Thanks. Good photos.

The Renault-Kegresse M.28 is one of those rare tanks that seems to have escaped four-view line drawings, or at least I never found any when searching a decade ago.

Does anyone know of any line drawings of the Renault-Kegresse M.28?

Many thanks,

Sid.

[MarkoZ]

Site Serbski okolop has some documents posted from the time indicating an attempt to purchase military equipment from the United States which includes 78 tanks ,I'm guessing M2 a4, 60 recon vehicles,I'm guessing White Scout cars M3a1 and 25 lorries for tank transportation. Same entry shows 120 c17 155mm howitzers,120 95mm artillery guns,400 37mm anti tank guns plus Ammo,,they were buying Ap shells for the modern At Guns and 120,000 Anti Tank rounds for the 37mm M16 infantry support gun.

[Varadero]

From e-bay two pictures of Yugoslav Skoda T-32.

[Varadero]

Hi Varadaro,

Thanks. Good photos.

The Renault-Kegresse M.28 is one of those rare tanks that seems to have escaped four-view line drawings, or at least I never found any when searching a decade ago.

Does anyone know of any line drawings of the Renault-Kegresse M.28?

Many thanks,

Sid.

Hi Sid, a bit late but here a drawing of M28

[Sid Guttridge]

Hi Varadero,

No, never too late.

Thank you very much indeed for your perseverance. Where did you find it?

In appreciation,

Sid.

[Varadero]

Hi Sid,
The drawing is from The Russian magazine Frontline Illustrations 1-2004 (ISBN 5-901266-01-3) but the same illstration was usedin Tank Power volume IX nr 223 Renault FT (ISBN 83-7219-223-5). As a bonus here some more pictures of the Yugoslav M28 (including three of pre-war time). All from ebay. Cheers.

[FlyingStukas]

Thank you for the pictures, Varadero!

Wonder what happened to these, dumped away or possibly used in future operations? Our tanks looked too old for them to be attractive to the Germans, so just like our weaponry, probably used in propaganda reports to ridicule our old equipment.

[Sid Guttridge]

Hi flyingstukas,

I think the Germans may have used the few Skoda T32 self-propelled guns they captured, as they had control of the Skoda factories. Photos of some apparently undamaged T32s with German troops are on this thread, though it is not clear from them that they were being used by the Germans at the time. They may just have been abandoned. I would have thought 7th SS Mountain Division would have been a good candidate, if they were used by the Germans, because it was initially equipped with mostly ex-Czech weaponry.

Cheers,

Sid.

[ltcolonel]

My paper (on Serbian) Procurement of armored vehicles from Czechoslovakia for the needs of the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Небојша Ђокић, Миломир Стевић, Набавка оклопних возила из Чехословачке за потребе Војске Краљевине Југославије, Расински анали бр. 5, Крушевац 2007, 79 - 88; Procurement of armored vehicles from Czechoslovakia for the needs of the Army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

on

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... echoslovak

or

https://www.academia.edu/38751464/Небој ... 07_79_-_88

[ltcolonel]

German tanks in Serbia 1941: Supplement to the Study of German Occupation System in Serbia, 1941

Небојша Ђокић, Драган Савић, Прилог изучавању немачког окупационог система у Србији 1941. године, Шумадијски анали бр. 6, Крагујевац 2011, 120 - 142; Supplement to the Study of German Occupation System in Serbia, 1941

on

https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... AjkOpb_QLA

or

https://www.academia.edu/38904025/Небој ... erbia_1941

[MarkoZ]

Are these published in English? I would certainly purchase.

[ltcolonel]

Only apstract on English but I think you can to understand. Try with pdf, I think second articles you can very easy to understnad. Articles in pdf are free.

[Varadero]

From ebay, Yugoslav M28 and FT tanks.

[Varadero]

From ebay, Yugoslav Renault R35 tanks.