pkitson Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Does anyone know how many surviving tanks there are that landed on D-day? Perry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 My Cromwell landed on D+1 but as no Cromwells landed on D-Day itself, that's close enough for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_shadock Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 well, in Normandy there are a lot of monument tanks that participated to th landings : the Centaurs at Hermanville and Bénouville, the Churchill at Graye sur Mer, the Sherman V Duplex Drive at Courseulles, the M4A1 DDs at Port en Bessin, probably most of the surviving Sherman BARVs as well.. P-O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 The Centaur at Benouville is indeed a veteran, the one at Hermanville is a Cavalier turret stuck on a Centaur Dozer hull, put there by the IWM in exchange for a Churchill AVRE, so not a D-Day veteran at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_shadock Posted July 16, 2014 Share Posted July 16, 2014 The Centaur at Benouville is indeed a veteran, the one at Hermanville is a Cavalier turret stuck on a Centaur Dozer hull, put there by the IWM in exchange for a Churchill AVRE, so not a D-Day veteran at all! well I knew this, should have checked my own website before putting silly things on forums... lol Fortunately there is always someone to correct the mistakes :-D P-O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 These two? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeePig Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 And are there not some wrecks stuck in the sand somewhere? trevor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 and this one :wow: a friend at the war and peace show pointed out the wading trunk attachment points on the rear engine decks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkitson Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 (edited) The above photo showing "Bold", is one of the First Hussars B squadron DD tanks that never made the beach. She was recovered about 35 years after D-Day and put up as a memorial. Here in Canada we have two M4A2's that purportedly landed at Juno and survived the war. The "Holly Roller" (CT152655) of the First Hussars (6th CAR), it was the only tank in the regiment to make it from D-Day to VE-Day and "Bomb" (CT152656) of the Sherbrooke's (27th CAR). "Holly Roller" was a runner until 1956 when she was gutted and placed in Victoria Park (the 1st Hussars Museum has a substantial portion of the fittings that were removed). Both machines were brought back to Canada at the end of the war and now reside as memorials. The First Hussars Association had the pleasure of interviewing William Reed, the "Holly Roller" gunner at the annual D-Day parade this year. He vividly recalls backing the tank up to a German bunker on the afternoon of June 6, hooking up tubes to the exhaust and pushing the other end into a air vent on the bunker, gassing the inhabitants out. The association is in the process of authenticating CT152655's loading onto a LST prior to D-day. I do not know if "Bombs" claim has been verified. Perry Edited January 16, 2015 by pkitson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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