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    Sherman Tank Gallery

    in Tracked vehicles

    Posted

    That first Vc is also, like the one in Mopertingen (the 4th one), a monument for the American liberators, so t has to look like an American Sherman and this was their choise.

    The second and third Vc is one and the same Sherman, now located at the camp of Marche en Famenne.

     

    Michel

    Iltis photo gallery

    in German Vehicles

    Posted

    I think the Belgian ones are Bombardier, not VW. The GPMG types might show up at Beltring. The Canadians also mounted a MILAN post on theirs with spare tubes in the back behind the seat.

     

     

    Indeed the Belgian Iltis is officialy a Bombardier build by Vw at the Vorst plant, politics you know. If you look at the pictures of the Belgian recce team, you can see that the rear Iltis has the Milan in traveling position so has the one in front, second picture the same.

     

    When in use the milan is on its support on top of the roll cage

    http://armesetmunitions.skyrock.com/ the thirth picture gives a idee how it is.

     

    Michel

    1 for Hanno or....

    in Tracked vehicles

    Posted

    I would prefer a database dedicated to the American M2-M4 Medium Tank series plus derivatives and conversions. I´d be interested to hear about the option to narrow down your database to one family of vehicles.

     

    - Hanno

     

     

    It's a simple task, for now I've got a field in the database for that purpose. As the situation is now it points for all the M4, M4A1 etc to a field Sherman, the derivates have their own field (M7, M7B1 and M7B2 point to the M7 field and so on). The only change I've got to make direct all those pointers to the Sherman field. If you select then the Sherman family, you'll get all the shermans in the database. My question in this is, witch vehicle is a member of that family, all the M4's offcourse further M7, M10, M12, M32, M36, M40, M43, M50, M51, M74, Grizzly's and Ram's, at last M2 and M3?

     

    Michel

    The afvregister

    in MV Chatter

    Posted

    About a year ago I started working on a database of surviving armoured vehicles. Up until now I have recorded about 7200 vehicles worldwide:???, yes I know thats only a fraction of what's out there, and about 1400 pictures of them. Some of the great dark spots in it is the UK, Holland, Germany, Italy, Austria (:cry: have I to go one?).... So if anyone feels the urge to help me :tup::.

    thanks

     

    Michel

     

    www.afvregister.org

    www.afvregister.org/M7B2/index.htm

    Sherman Tank Gallery

    in Tracked vehicles

    Posted

    A few years back i made a list off the surviving shermans in Belgium.

    It isn't up to date anymore, but the most of them are still at the same location. The adres is http://www.afvregister.org/M7B2/Belgie.htm.

    A more up to date list (not only Shermans) is the document I've created with Neil Baumgardner: http://www.afvregister.org/The%20Belgian%20Historical%20Afv%20register.pdf

     

    Michel

     

    for those of you who can't wait

     

    sherman1.jpg

    Sherman Vc

     

    sherman2a.jpg

    M4 Composite

     

    sherman3.jpg

     

    another M4 Composite

     

    sherman7.jpg

    another Sherman Vc

     

    www.afvregister.org

    www.afvregister.org/M7B2/index.htm

    1 for Hanno or....

    in Tracked vehicles

    Posted

    I won't be surprised if the total would rise above the 1500 survivors. At this moment I have around 900 Shermans and direct variants (without the M3's) at the AfvRegister and it only covers the US, Canada, France, Belgium, Polen and a small part of the UK, Holland and Germany. A swift look at Hanno's country list I'm missing 400 - 500 Shermans from the other country's and then add the unknown ....:)

     

    Michel

     

    www.afvregister.org

    www.afvregister.org/M7B2/index.htm

    New membertichenor

    in Introductions & Welcomes

    Posted

    Hello all

     

    I'm Michel from Belgium, I don't own any military vehicle, but as NCO at the Belgian Army I have some experience with them. As the project leader of M7B2 Priest restoration project I did learn a lot off those older vehicles. The project is almost finished but there is already an other project waiting. Further I'm intrested in programming so I did create the http://www.afvregister.org/home.aspx website where I try to register al sorts off afv's preserved around the world, started it last summer so its not complete and probably never will be (to many afv's, to many country's and to little time).

     

    Michel

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