Rlangham Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 (edited) 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 [imghttp://img61.imageshack.us/img61/3208/6pdrcb0.jpg[/img] 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Barrell Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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