Landships II

oirob · Sergeant

Putilow-Garford armored cars

JamesAPrattIII · Lieutenant-Colonel

I hope i am not being a pain in making alot of posting but, i am in the process of building some WW I armored car models and being a history major i would like to find some information on their use. here is what i have on the Putilow-garford:

1 with the deaths head insignia in Terhan, Persia 1915

1915 "Mikmailovyets"

20th automotive machine gun platoon

1 in Petrograd Nov 1917 with the Reds

Germans 2 POW

Latvians 1 or 2 "Laplesis" captured by the Freikorps

"Kurzemieks"

Poles 3 POW including "Uralets" painted grey

Reds have 21 at the start of the civil war and have 26 at the end

1st armored car detchment 1919 petrograd "Falcon II" later Russo-Polish war

18th armor car detachment 1918-20 south Russia

42nd Heavy armored car detachment "Anti-christ', "Red Hero", Powerfull", "Pugachev"

If anyone has anymore information on their use please feel free to add it here. thanks in advance.

K-Flak · Lieutenant

Latvians 1 or 2 "Laplesis" captured by the Freikorps

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The name on the picture on page 194 in Ernst von Salomon�s "Das Buch vom deutschen Freikorpsk�mpfer" reads "LACPLESIS". On the same page� Salomon reports (in his article "Der Weg vom Freikorps zur Freiwillige russischen Westarmee") how they fight and capture a Panzerwagen. He claims two Englishmen (sic) escaped from the burning vehicle and were captured. The picture could display this captured vehicle but is not claimed in the subtitle. If this book is unknown to you then I could post the German text here. It is a bit hard to translate because it is not a military report, sadly, more novel-like.