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Surviving Israel and Arab States Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicles Last update: September 26, 2013

Listed here are the improvised armoured fighting vehicles from Arab-Israel War that still exist today.

Tom Cooper, July 2004 - http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/printer_444.shtml

Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle – Damas Museum, Damascus (Syria)

The fate of the vehicle is currently uncertain, it was moved to an unknown location ("Tommy") Those type of vehicles were built based on Godge truck before WWII and for service in the French mandated areas of the mid-east.

The cab and engine compartment had armour added inside the existing body panels. The cargo area had a complete new build armour body. Versions with a simple personel body (like the one in the photo) and with gun mounts for a 37mm or 47mm cannon were built. They served with Foreign Legion units before the war, and both Vichy and Free French units during WW-2. After the war trucks

remaining in country passed on to the Syrian government. Some were used during the 1948 war ("Pope130").

Simon Connell, May 2002 - http://www.simonconnell.com/2002/MiddleEast/Syria/Damascus.htm


The fate of the vehicle is currently uncertain, it was moved to an unknown location ("Tommy").

Tommy Vicard - http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?147432-Captured-vehicles-thread/page4


The fate of the vehicle is currently uncertain, it was moved to an unknown location ("Tommy").

Roger Davis, May 2009 - http://www.cdsg.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=240&sid=1b09d2438c4d3a6576642312d6154bb7

Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle – Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Latrum (Israel)

"deror_avi", April 2010 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armoured_vehicles_1948_IMG_0939.JPG

Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle – Batey ha-Osef Museum, Tel Aviv (Israel)

Avishai Teicher, June 2010 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_8981_armored_vehicle_from_the_independence_war.jpg


Avishai Teicher, June 2010 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_8984_armored_vehicle_from_the_indepndece_war.jpg


"Bukvoed", October 2005 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Armored-bus-batey-haosef-1.jpg


Avishai Teicher, June 2010 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_8976_armored_buses_of_mount_scopus.jpg


Avishai Teicher, October 2009 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_5462_old_armoured_vehicle_in_hanita.jpg


Avishai Teicher, June 2010 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_8982_armored_vehicle_from_the_indepndece_war.jpg


"Bukvoed", June 2008 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MY-armored-car-2.jpg

Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle – Givati Brigade Museum, Metsudat Yoav (Israel)

Avishai Teicher, September 2009 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_4426_armoured_vehicle_in_mazkeret_batya.jpg

Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle – Mazkeret Batya (Israel)

''dadlamassu'' - http://s36.photobucket.com/albums/e1/dadlamassu/Alamein/?action=view&current=100_5849.jpg

Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle – El-Alamein War Museum (Egypt)

"Bukvoed", September 2009 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaar-ha-Gai-convoy-memorial-39.jpg

"Bukvoed", September 2009 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaar-ha-Gai-convoy-memorial-39.jpg

Remains of seven Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle – Memorial on road to

Jerusalem, Shaar ha-Gai (Israel) Sha'ar HaGai or Bab El-Wad (Gate of the Valley) is a point on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, 23 km from Jerusalem, where the road begins to ascend into a gorge between cliffs. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, this area saw fierce fighting between Jordanian Arab

Legion and Jewish convoys on the way to blockaded Jerusalem (wikipedia).

August 2013 -http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F_2.jpg ,דוידוד

Hanay, July 2011 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yechiam_Convoy_Memorial_(11).JPG

http://pikiwiki.org.il/?action=gallery&img_id=5220

"EagelXDV", August 2009 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimshon/2812685194/

Avishai Teicher, October 2009 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_5224_yechiam_convoy_memorial.jpg

Remains of at least five Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle – Memorial of Yechiam

Convoy, near Al-Kabri (Israel) The Yehiam convoy was a Haganah convoy which was sent from Haifa during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War to reinforce and re-supply the Yehiam kibbutz which had been holding out against constant Arab attacks. On March 27, 1948, the convoy was attacked and

destroyed by an Arab ambush (wikipedia).

''Bukvoed'', June 2006 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yad-Mordechai-museum-armoured-car-2.jpg

Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle wreck – Yad Mordechai Battlefield Museum

(Israel)

''Bukvoed'', June 2006 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yad-Mordechai-museum-armoured-car-3.jpg

Improvised Armoured Fighting Vehicle cabin – Yad Mordechai Battlefield Museum (Israel)

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This document is a synthesis of photos and information published on the web. I would like to thank the people who took these photos and put them on their websites, or sent them to me, and also those who helped me doing this list (particularly people of the

AFV News Discussion Board).

Very special thanks to Pierre-Olivier Buan and Massimo Foti.

For any question, you can email me Rafał Białęcki at: [email protected]

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