下の写真は Typ 82 にハリボテの装甲を被せたロンメルの偽戦車。Typ 82/3 とは別物の現地改修車両です。
この写真も現地改修っぽいですが詳細は不明です。
【補足資料】Typ 一覧
Type 62: Prototype Kübelwagen, constructed from 15 May 1938; pre-production models (1939) field tested in the invasion of Poland
Type 67: 2-stretcher ambulance; Type 60 Beetle chassis with modified Type 82 body
Type 82/0: Basic, standard four seater
Type 82/1: Three-seater; usually radio car
Type 82/2: Sirencar (Siemens motor-driven siren mounted on passenger side in place of the rear seat)
Type 82/3: Mock-up scout car / armoured vehicle, incl. gun-turret atop cabin – for decoy and training purposes
Type 82/5: Kübelwagen chassis, with Type 60/LO[note 2] Pritschenwagen (Beetle pickup-truck) body.[12]
Type 82/6: "Tropenwagen": Kübelwagen chassis, with Beetle panel-van / box-van body
Type 82/7: Three-seat 'Command car': a Type 82 chassis, fitted with a Beetle body and roll-up canvas roof section. These three-seaters had a single rear seat behind the driver, and a co-driver's seat with fully reclining backrest for a commanding officer.
Type 82/8: Like regular open Type 82/0 Kübelwagen, but with body made of wood, to save on scarce steel resources
Type 82/E:[note 3] "Geländekäfer": Kübelwagen chassis with Beetle body (688 manufactured)
Type 86: Four-wheel drive (six prototypes made)
Type 87: "Kommandeurwagen": a Type 86 4WD Kübelwagen chassis with Beetle command car body. Fitted with running boards, under-hood-mounted spare tire (accompanied by a gas can, a jack, a small tool kit, and a shovel), and widened fenders for its larger-diameter Kronprinz (Crown Prince) off-road tires. Some were provided to high-ranking officers, who could push through virtually any kind of terrain with them. (667 produced)[13][14]
Type 92/LO:[note 2] deprecated — from April 1943 known as Type 82/5 [15]
Type 92/O: "offen": Kübelwagen chassis, with Type 60/O (Beetle convertible) body
Type 92/SS: (until April 1943): with interior attachments for fire-arms — from April 1943 deprecated, and known as Type 82/E [15]
Type 98: Beetle body with roll-up roof, on the Type 86 Kübelwagen 4×4 drive train
Type 106: Fitted with an experimental transmission (assumed different from the Type 89)
Type 107: Fitted with a turbocharger
Type 115: Fitted with a supercharger
Type 126: Fitted with a fully synchronized gearbox (assumed different from the Type 278)
Type 155/1: Half-track / snow-track Kübelwagen prototype. Pictures of several track-set designs exist,[16] although it is possible, that these were consecutively fitted to the same prototype. Trials proved, that the Type 155 was able to cover the most difficult terrain, but the modifications necessary to the standard Kübelwagen were extensive and the resulting vehicle was both very slow and forbiddingly inefficient.
Type 157: Railway car equipment, used for Types 82 and 87
Type 164: Six-wheeled, twin engine, dual-control prototype; never entered production
Type 177: Fitted with a five-speed transmission (as opposed to the standard four-speed unit)
Type 179: Fitted with fuel-injected Volkswagen engine
Type 179-F: Later updated directly to the Schwimmwagen (mentioned above)—Could cross water and temporarily be used as a small boat and/or landing craft. Because of a thick and bulletproof skid plate, the engine was protected and all valves in the rear were airtight. The engine had a flush-activated 179 fuel injected engine, that would act as a drainer to push water out and prevent the engine from flooding.
Type 198: Fitted with a PTO and auxiliary gearbox for starting the engines of armoured fighting vehicles[17]
Type 235: Fitted for power by an electric motor
Type 239: Fitted for power by a wood-gas generator mounted on the nose (also listed as Type 230)
Type 240: Fitted for power by bottled gas
Type 276: "Schlepperfahrzeug": Type 82 fitted with a towing hook to pull a 3.7 cm 'PaK 36' gun[18]
SAS Wings は年代や国(英国以外にも SAS は存在します)によって微妙にデザインが異なるようです。
制帽のバッチ
帽子のバッヂには ”Who Dares Wins” の刺繍が入っています。これは SAS がモットーとしているフレーズで「敢えて挑むものが勝つ!」という意味です。SAS の創始者のデビッド・スターリングが中世アラビアのおとぎ話(Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange )から引用したものだと言われています。
「Theirs Is the Glory(邦題:第一空挺兵団)」は第二次大戦末期に西欧戦域で実施されたマーケット・ガーデン作戦をテーマに扱ったイギリス製作の映画で、第二次世界大戦終結の翌年(1946 年 8 月 15 日)に公開されました。
同じ題材を映画化したものとしては、1977 年公開の映画「A Bridge Too Far(邦題:遠すぎた橋、原作:コーネリアス・ライアン)」がありますが、「第一空挺兵団」が「遠すぎた橋」と違うのは、アルンヘム攻防にポイントを絞ることで惨敗に終わったこの無謀な作戦を美化することなくありのままにドキュメンタリーとして製作している点です。