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I would have thought that those plated over Sextons would have seen use as defacto APCs like the Rams & Preists did during WWII....

 

This is a Gun Position Officer version, these were used by artillery units:

http://tank-photographs.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/Sexton-spg-GPO-Gun-Position-offficer.html

 

Of course no one knows what they were used for at the end of their service life, APC is an option, but maybe even as a skip by the garrison garbage man :-D

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Abandonned near Rawalpindi.

I foresee a few gentlemen around here mounting an expedition!

 

Interesting collection. (I think I have seen pics of the M4 HST's somewhere before...)

 

Is that a Staghound turret on one of the M32's?

 

Ayub National Park, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

 

Alex

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Sorry to disappoint guys!! He text me the picture of the tank across this morning.. its a funny looking Sherman!! :undecided: It is interesting none the less, that's dumped out in a forest somewhere so he says?

 

DSC00578.jpgAnyone got the exAct location for this cheiften. I would be very interested in taking a closer look at it. 😄

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I know of a US Marine Corps M3 Stuart abandoned on what used to be called Arundel Island in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, and at least on Japanese Model 95 Light Tank on a sunken freighter off of Vella Lavella Island in the same area. The Stuart is stranded in a swamp, so not that easy to get at, but the Japanese tank is readily available in the cargo hold of the sunken freighter. Hard to say if more are out there.

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I know of a US Marine Corps M3 Stuart abandoned on what used to be called Arundel Island in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, and at least on Japanese Model 95 Light Tank on a sunken freighter off of Vella Lavella Island in the same area. The Stuart is stranded in a swamp, so not that easy to get at, but the Japanese tank is readily available in the cargo hold of the sunken freighter. Hard to say if more are out there.

 

Is it this Stuart?

 

http://traveloscopy.blogspot.nl/2014/07/solomon-islands-trash-and-treasure.html

 

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