Beltring part two - Armour, artillery, tracked vehicles and a V2 rocket

[Rlangham]

Here's the second part - artillery, armoured vehicles and vehicles with tracks

 

 

One of about seven carriers - a Universal Carrier (Mk II I think) from East of England tank museum

 

 

Carrier in the markings of 49th Division, South Wales Borderers (two carriers there with SWB markings on)

 

 

Me with the carrier - cheers to Frenchie for taking the photo

 

 

Standard Sherman with a 75mm gun

 

 

The coolest tank ever (and of course, it's British) - the Comet!

 

 

The Comet crew - 'Tramps in Armour' as they call themselves

 

 

This was ace, the M3 Grant tank - couldn't believe it when I saw it actually driving

 

 

This was probably my favourite vehicle, a Humber mk IV armoured car, armed with a 37mm (2 pounder) gun and a co-axial 7.62 BESA machine gun. 49th Recce used these as well

 

 

Windsor carrier, basically a Universal carrier with a longer body

 

 

Staghound armoured car, built by the yanks for the British

 

 

Stuart tank with the turret off used for recconaissance

 

 

Panzer IV

 

 

Panzer V 'Panther' tank

 

 

Kettenkrad

 

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6 pounder anti tank gun - the Leicesters would have had some of these (can't remember how many)

 

 

17 pounder anti tank gun, the best British anti tank gun of the war, and could knock out a Tiger tank at 1000 yards. It was also the main armament for the Comet and Sherman Firefly tanks

 

 

Me with the V2

 

 

V2 rocket at night

Edited June 20, 2013 by Marmite!!
photo links repaired

[Adrian Barrell]

Great pics, just a couple of points.

 

The Humber is armed with a 37mm but this is not a 2 pdr. The 2 pdr is 40 mm bore and a completely different weapon.

 

The Windsor Carrier is a T16. Built by Ford in the USA for the British army, the Windsor was built in Canada and they are very different.

 

The 17 pdr was not strictly speaking used in Comet. That had a '77mm' which was a shortened 17 pdr firing different ammunition, though it did use the same projectile.