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The original's front fuselage is on display at the Smithsonian. The rest is stored at its Garber facility.

The Tigers knocked out at V-B were Wittmann's (Either numbered 222 or 231), which received a 6pdr shot into it's running gear, it had previously been hit by a Firefly to no effect & had two shots from Captain Dyas's Cromwell bounce off its front (Captain Dyas's Cromwell was then dispatched with ease) one was hit twice on the mantlet by a Firefly, causing it to retreat, then it was knocked out by a Cromwell from behind. Another was knocked out by a 6pdr a/t from a flank shot, another was knocked out and another abandonned by its crew after being engaged by PIATs. The damaged & abandonned Tigers were subsequently recovered by the Germans.

Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh, intriguing!:thumbsup:

Newark would probably like them. http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/ They've a large, glassed, display area for smaller items and having been an ex-bomber airfield, the Lanc panel would fit in perfectly.

A beauty! I assume that's the one that previously carried Red Bull colours? I'm under the flight path for Waddington, had a C17 fly over today, usually see a few things that are due to be at their display appear in the weeks leading up to the airshow.

Why make a Cromwell, rather than just restoring the Charioteer to running condition.?

We've heard nothing more about that hoard of German bits in that farmer's barn in France, that was posted on here. http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?22672-German-armour-heaps-of-ammo-and-tanks-found-in-France..-that-got-you-interested!&highlight=88mm

http://forum.panzer-archiv.de/viewtopic.php?t=9486 Must have one of the most reused & travelled bits of weaponary in the world. Pak36r, ex-Russian gun, captured by Germany & refurbished, captured by Allies (?) passed into Portuguese service (?) then into Nigerian hands. A Saracen & a Saladin lurk in the background & a couple of T-16 based APCs, plus a somewhat second-hand Eland?

Lovely!:tup:: Still the most aesthetically pleasing aircraft ever!

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Afraid not, found it on some guy's Flickr account. There are a few more of it around. Looks like it hasn't floated for a long time! Second sub. Other bits of hardware litter the island. As to how it got so far ashore, a tsunami wouldn't be out of the question in that area. There may also be some sort of launch cradle under it, no buried or rusted away.

Righty ho, putting on my best anorak. At 1.40, we've a Bf109F or G, an Hs129 & an Fw200. 1.48, He111 & Bf110 1.53, Do17/215, Ju52 2.13, Ju88 2,42, it's the Fw200 Condor again. Looks to be in good condition, must've been captured on an airfield (Stalingrad?) , none of the ones seen so far are crash wrecks, no bent props & paint in good nick. 2.50, Fw189 3.14, Fw190 3.41, enough Bf109 to form a Schwarm! 3.53, a trashed Bf109 4.02, aha, a Hero of the Soviet Union, maybe Ivan Khozedub? 4.09, a Nebelwerfer. 4.20, leFH18 105mm 4.29, its big bro, the sFH18 150mm 4.58, looks like a Flak36 88mm. 5.17. Flakvierling quad 20mm. 5.26, a trio of big buggers, 17 or 21cm? K18 or Mrs18. 5.43, big stuff! I don't know what these are. 6.09, Italian L6/40 (One of them at Kubinka) & PzIII (Again, Kubinka has at least one of these) 6.18, Marder II with 76mmPak® 6.24, Hmm, not sure about that one, Hungarian Toldi? 6.29 PzIVG (One in Kubinka) 6.30 Pz38t (Another for Kubinka) 6.35, the Italian L6/40 again. 6.38 PzI (Beobacht version?) 6.47, a Frenchman in German colours! Somua S35 (One in Kubinka) 6.52, Emil Sturer, that is in Kubinka, only one survives & it was acquired in the snow outside Stalingrad. 7.05, Elefant, one's in Kubinka, the other survivor (Actually a Ferdinand) is in the USA. 7.14 Tiger1, probably the first one the Russian's captured. Didn't survive the war. 7.46, a swiss-cheesed Tiger1! The film won't play past 9.01 for me, might be my crappyn internet connection going over its monthly limit! Great film, great find!

Having lived next to this place for about 18 years, I've got to know it quite well. I think there's been posts about it before, but not of this part, tacked away in the wooded bit, an old air raid shelter. Ruins, Fulbeck Airfield by madadadam, on Flickr A shot of a nearby ruined building. Bunker entrance, Fulbeck Airfield by madadadam, on Flickr The surface and entrance, virtually blocked by the tree growing up. Bunker, Fulbeck Airfield by madadadam, on Flickr The interior, furnishing courtesy of my stepson, probably 10 years ago!

I don't know if this one's featured on here yet. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=pl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sturmgeschutziv.pl%2Fpl%2Fcomponent%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F1-latest-news%2F125-sensacja-nowa-karta-w-historii-poznania&sl=pl&tl=en

Make that the Heinkel 274! The best known and verified instance of sabotage, was with the Hs293 glide bombs, where wires used in the guidance systems were severed in such a manner, that they passed static tests, but the vibrations when in flight caused intermitent interuptions in the guidance signals received.

The Panther G had a combat weight of 45.5 tonnes, the Panther D 43 tonnes. The original idea was to have a tank ~37 tonnes in weight, so the whole transmission was designed with this weight in mind. The Tiger had similar issues, designed around a 45 tonne limit and waddling onto the battlefield at a positively obese 56 tonnes. In "Tigers in the Mud", Carius includes a couple of appendices, that are either combat reports or reports from the maintainance company. In two days, totalling 113km, one Tiger was "lost" to enemy action, 3 to mechanical problems. Both the Tiger (All versions) and Panther were thrown into combat with inadequate development, the engineering reports from the 503rd SwPzAbt make that very clear, with various types of piping too short, poor seals leading to leaks, piping being distorted when engine covers are closed, weak socket wrenches, track pins sliding out & clamps being insufficiently tightened. There are reports of sabotage of some weaponary by slave labourers, annecdotal ones of B17s returning with holed fuel tanks, when the 20mm cannon shells are recovered from them, they're empty of explosive, but have notes saying the likes of "This is the best way we can help you" The He277, being assembled in a French factory, was sabotaged, finally being completed & flown in 1947-8 IIRC.

Type A minisub On Kiska, Aleutian Islands. One of three such wrecks.

http://www.achtungpanzer.com/bulgarian-panthers.htm There's never been a single photo of a Pantherturm in Bulgaria, so the chances of any surviving do seem to be remote. Carry on dredging the Neva, that seems to be full of tanks & other AFV! The Czechs ran Panthers, Bergpanthers & PzIV up into the 1950s, several appear in the "Tank Commander" (? right name) film.

IIRC, the Merlin 61 introduced the 2-stage supercharger. http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/merlin-lovesey.pdf Any use?

I'll be surprised if cutting up & bringing back scrap steel from Singapore would be in the least bit economical, looking at how much was lying around in Europe & North Africa and bobbing up and down in England's ports!

The last (apart from the mortar) remains of the Sturmtiger that came Bov's way?

It's an M10 Achilles/Wolverine tank destroyer. Open turret with a 17pdr.

http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=c41ee554-65d9-4804-b5d7-c37cafdebc84&st=2 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gallery.aspx?guid=40f40561-391b-461d-848e-7be6cedf1f33 Take a few hours to scan through this lot!

Never seen a Sherman with that before! I know some Stugs had some cast either side of the mantlet area. Magnetic mines? Doubt it, you wouldn't tend to run up to a tank and try and slap one onto its glacis plate. Would it have any effect on Panzerfausts?

They'll be a queue of folks who just happen to live near Lincoln waiting for you to offer rides in it!:cool2: