Syrian Pz.IV, Jagdpanzer etc.

[spaddad]

Can anyone help me with details of six day war colours & markings for Syrian Pz IV's, Jagdpazer IV's or any other stuff they had in service

Cheers,

Spad

[Killingholme]

Star decals do some Syrian markings for 1967 war. Not for the Panzers, but could be useful.

[Troy Smith]

Can anyone help me with details of six day war colours & markings for Syrian Pz IV's, Jagdpazer IV's or any other stuff they had in service

Cheers,

Spad

Have you tried google?

I wondered about the same question, having an old Airfix PZ IV for practice, and this is what I found from both a search and image search

Syrian PZ IV gets a wrecks

Both look to be very weathered yellow.

and a captured one in Israel.

It seems they got repainted in green, though IIRC late in the war German armour ended up with a green base coat rather than yellow.

Oh, this might help

http://ftr-wot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/panzer-iv-in-czechoslovak-service.html

55 tanks were sold to Syria in 1955 (by the time the phasing-out began). Some ended up as gunnery targets in the 60's, one was kept as a museum piece and currently resides in the Lešany armor museum. All the Czechoslovak Panzer IV's were repainted with standard Czechoslovak olive drab coating, as seen here:

And what became of the Panzer IV's exported to Syria? Various sources differ as to how many Panzer IV's were actually supplied to Syrian and by whom. Some sources claim as few as 28 Panzer IV's were in Syrian service, being imported from Czechoslovakia, Spain, France and the USSR, while the real number was probably significantly higher (as 55 (some sources claim 45) vehicles were imported from Czechoslovakia only)

Czech repainted PZ IV

So looks like green ex-Czech, and who know for other sources.

also this great image

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?23224-JagdPanzer-IV-in-Syrian-service

I'd ask over on Missing Lynx, as they seem to be the place for armour.

[spaddad]

thanks Troy, really helpful, really grateful.