Soldiers of the American 101st Airborne Division (Screaming Eagles) of the US Army near a captured German Horch Kfz 15 vehicle (probably based on a Czech Skoda type 952 chassis) in front of the destroyed SS barracks at the Berghof. Western Front, color photo from World War II.
Location: Berghof, Berchtesgaden, Germany
Shooting time: June 1945
Horch Kfz 15, KRAFTFAHRZEUG, CAR
The Horch Kfz 15 was a water-cooled (V-8) engine-powered vehicle that was produced on a wide variety of commercial chassis between 1938 and 1940 in Nazi Germany.
The main purpose of the Horch Kfz 15 was communications. Powered by a water-cooled engine (V-8 layouts), the car was produced on a wide variety of commercial chassis, including the Mercedes-Benz 340, which produced the Horch between 1938 and 1940. When the restoration of the German army took place in the early 30s, it was necessary to create machines for the implementation of plans for a lightning war (“blitzkrieg”). However, the civilian chassis used at first, on which special bodies were installed, turned out to be not very successful military vehicles – despite the fact that all the wheels were driving, the cross-country ability of these vehicles was clearly insufficient. But even after the advent of specially built army vehicles, these vehicles continued to be used as headquarters and radio vehicles.
Crew: 1
Weight: 2.4 tons
Dimensions:
length – 4.44 m,
width – 1.68 m,
height – 1.73 m
Power reserve: 400 km
Armor: no
Armament: no
Engine: One Mercedes-Benz carburettor engine, 90 hp.
Ride quality:
Max. highway speed – 88 km / h,
overcome ford – 0.6 m