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  1. Sherman Specialized Vehicles (free.fr)

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    M4A1(76) Sherman Duplex Drive (large hatch hull) Musée des Blindés, Saumur (France) 75mm large hatch hull with cast-in appliqué. A staffer at Saumur reported that the US provided the DD to the French Army after WW II for examination and test purposes. When it was transferred to the Museum in the 1970s, it was missing its original "high bustle" 75mm turret. The Museum retrofitted the 76mm turret simply to make the tank look complete Pierre-Olivier

     

  2. Crude can be refined to produce different amounts of products, petrol was originally a pretty much unusable fraction, paraffin was what was sought.

    Plastics tend to be produced from gaseous precursors, rather than from oil per se. 

     

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  3. The Stuarts (Honeys to be exact, as they were in British service) often had their turrets removed when used in the recce role, the 37mm being of little use post-42-43. 

    Some pictures in this MU forum post.

    Stuart VI Recce (was: Stuart Recce replacement) - MLU FORUM (mapleleafup.net)

    The artillery tractors appear to have undergone more radical surgery, having a rectangular cut-out in their top armour, rather than just a turret removed & collar fitted around the aperture. 

    ultravanillasmurf: M5 Combat Vehicle Stuart Gun Tractor (Stuart VI)

    I doubt if any turreted Stuarts remained in British service for very long after WW2 ended.

     

  4. On 1/18/2023 at 7:37 PM, terryb said:

    absolutely-should our CR2 be penetrated or destroyed we can kiss goodbye to the Chally's excellent track record. UK mod will be rubbished, and the Russian arms industry will get a huge boost. Bad move.

    They have been penetrated, in 2006, an RPG-29 penetrated a Challie's low frontal armour.

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  5. Highly likely to be a political move, so the Germans will send Leopard 2, that the Ukrainians want.

    Deploying a dozen or so, nearly obsolete tanks, that weigh 28 tonnes more than anything currently used there, with potentially limited ammunition supply as it's no longer manufactured, isn't going to be of much use.

    Add in the necessary spares, crew training and they'll be of little use. Also, modern tanks need to be used as part of a combined arms deployment, so the promised 30 AS90s will be of more use, I suppose the question there, is where have they found 30 fully functional AS90s & when will these & the Challies actually be sent?

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  6. On 12/23/2022 at 12:02 PM, 10FM68 said:

    The thing is, accuracy is rarely part of the equation, it's the story which matters.  One has to look back at old films when, I would have assumed, WWII vehicles were more common than they are today, but there were still some shockers - particularly poorly disguised International half tracks for the Germans in Ice Cold in Alex or Chaffees for The Battle of The Bulge.. the Sioux in Where Eagles Dare ... Funnily enough, one of the most accurate for uniforms was Black Adder!

    But what I do think is sad is the scarcity of British vehicles on the scene.  We seem to be swamped with US, ie foreign, stuff - largely as a result of its becoming available from continental war stocks. but there seems so little interest in, particularly post WWII British soft skin vehicles.  Where are all the Bedford RLs, the Austin K9s, the Morris MRAIs Fordson Thames E3, Commer Q4 - the list goes on?  People still get sniffy about Land Rovers, yet many of them are now far older than WWII vehicles were in the 80s and many lived interesting lives.

     

    I assume, that even in 1958, when "Ice Cold in Alex" was filmed, functional German half tracks were rare beasts, probably rarer than they are now, as nobody had much interest in fishing stuff out of rivers & swamps on the other side of the Iron Curtain - bear in mind that Lancaster ND759 which ditched on Lake Constance, Switzerland and it sank on 27th / 28th April 1944.,was recovered from the lake by Martin Shaffner during 1953/1954. It was put on display in Steckborn before being scrapped in 1955. A virtually intact Lancaster, with a known, wartime provenance, just scrapped.

    Old British vehicles has probably rusted away by then & maybe the ex-US vehicles were just better, so had longer lives in civilian hands, when they were demobbed. 

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