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Quite afew FT17 turrets survive that are/were on bunkers, also WW2 French tank turrets. There's even a couple of them in Vietnam!
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Scrapped, they weren't even powerful enough to be used as artillery tractors.
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How very clever!
I've got -
Fw190 on the gate infront of the children
Liberator on the bridge parapet
Spitfire on the back of the carriage
B29 on the luggage trolley
Sunderland in the puddle the dog's lapping
Stuka on the signal gantry
B26, P51 & Ki61 "Tony" in the tree by the children.
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Quite extensive use by the Wermacht, as local defense & anti-partisan work.
The 3 in Norway were used for airfield defense, for example.
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The Polish Army's claimed this one. Hopefully it will be recovered & preserved.
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Utah Beach Sherman is an M4A1E8.
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It was on display in the Landwarfare Hall.
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That one depends, the German "Ambush" schemes were factory applied.
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A&S in Suffolk did the PzIV that went to Jordan recently, might be worth dropping them a line.
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Try Parcels2Go.com
A quick quote for a 1mx1mx60cm, 500kg load, gets a price of £60 or £75 for 2 day or next day delivery, via PalletForce (Parcel Force's sister company).
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It flies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Someone's beaten you to it!
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Hell's Bells!
Mind you, there's a fair few Youtube bits with low fliers.
Blue Angels go low!
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$93,500. Ex Auburn collection.Quite a whack for something that's largely a replica.
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Never heard of this gun before, were any issued in WW2?
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So... where was this filmed... and is it a T54 or 55 ?
T55, it lacks the mushroom ventilator on the turret roof.
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Go to any place, where there's going to be a lot of people, the more crowded the better & you'll find the pondlife that'll thieve from you.
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Jhfc!
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Not entirely correct.
The writing was on the wall for piston engined aircraft, especially fighters. Look at the amount of kit, of all types, that was dumped at the end of WW2, especially in the Far East.
P40s, location unknown.
B24s
A heap of P38s, ready for burial at Clark Field in the Phillipines. These are still buried, they're beneath the power station site, so aren't going to be enearthed in the foreseeable future, despite the best efforts of some rather rich Americans!
The cost of bringing these planes back to the UK/USA, where they would only be scrapped anyway, was more than their value. Reload onto trucks/railways, offload at docks, reload onto ships, sail back to the UK, offload, truck/train to disposal point, add to the thousands of Allied & Axis planes, all awaiting scrapping. Remember that the Yanks couldn't be bothered to ship back to the US half of the planes they'd sent to Europe, including brand new ones!
Also, they weren't "state of the art", Spitfire XIVs had been superceded by the Mk21, 22 & 24, it's more like thinking along the line that they were Tornado GR1, so not even upto GR4 standard.
It also gave the thousands of men, waiting to be shipped home & demobbed, something to do!
Some planes were sold/given to the newly liberated countries of the CBI theatre, Spitfires to Burma, for instance, but there's only so many they'd need and the Yanks would be as keen to offload Mustangs as we'd be to get shut of obsolete Spitfires.
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There was talk about crated Seafires & Corsairs, being dumped off carriers. That went very quiet too! May turn out to be one of these "There's a Tiger tank in that lake" stories.
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Thanks Richard, well from what I have seen first hand and around here there would be 8 or 9 Matilda's and 5 Stuart's and 4 Centurion's and there is some big collections around that people do not talk about but I am told it could number in the 20's. There is a Ferret and a Saladin parked 4 kms from where I sit. My figures do not include museums or ones in the possession of the army which they hold at Sydney Moorebank base, The Hunter Lancer unit, Puckapunyal to name just three and most of these are quite serviceable WW2 and Vietnam issue. there must still be dozens still out on farms like the one I found a few months ago and the two Bren carriers that have come up for auction in the last months. I know were there is a Bren in big bits for sale now for around $5000 but its just sitting there ... Ray
If you've any photos to add to the ones on "Surviving Panzers", I'm sure P-O would love to have them.
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Matilda II
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=7419636@N02&q=matilda
Matilda IV CS, John Bourke's
A couple of the various dozer/tractor conversions may be runners.
Valentine dozer conversion, Don Rhodes mining & transport museum, Port Hedland.
Another ex-dozer was being run by a company called "Mad Trax", was for sale about 5 years ago.
Several more in New Zealand.
Grants.
Peter Ray, Nanago, Queensland.
"Rod" (Keyes?) Western Australia.
Grant hull, vis-modded as a Sherman for a film.
Lots of Grant hulls out there, as to whether any are runners, without major work, is hard to say.
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Interesting how the Scimitars loaded with no problems, but the Sultan struggled to get onto the transporter. Were they tail-heavy?
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Looks like an engine & a couple of wheels to me!
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