Jack Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 OK this is breaking news chaps and looks like one hell of a find! An M5 Stuart has been found under the street of a French town!! On the page - click on the HMVF logo or go here http://www.hmvf.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodge Deep Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Blimey! I'da thought it more likely it was shoved into a shell crater or bomb crater which was then filled in. Seems an awfully big hole to dig to bury something that could be dragged away? You wouldn't want to lift it out a hole though. Wonder if they'll charge the US Army with 60 years of unpaid 'Pay and Display' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Knowing the french they probably will, wonder who is going to keep it though ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messerschmitt owner Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 supposedly they dumped a huge pile of American soft skin and armour in Gloucester at the end of the war - dug a hole next to the railway at St Oswalds and dumped it all. Should also mention all the stuff jettisoned off aircraft carrier flight decks into beaufort's Dyke too - all shipped out of cairnryan. I believe a few fully laden ships were scuttled too after the war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I like that. it was on a reconnaisance mission when it broke down so was abandoned. It doesn't have an engine in it! And i bet some theiving kids made off with the turret. Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 great find , and very intresting makes us wonder what else is buried out there around the world , just waiting to be found .:sweat:............:coffee: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcspool Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Blimey!I'da thought it more likely it was shoved into a shell crater or bomb crater which was then filled in. Seems an awfully big hole to dig to bury something that could be dragged away? You wouldn't want to lift it out a hole though. The Churchill MkIV AVRE at Graye-sur-Mer, Normandy, laid buried under a road until 1976. Remains of a Tiger tank were recovered from under a French road not too long ago. Makes you wonder how many tanks are still buried right under your car's tyres?!?!? H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodge Deep Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I'd rather see my car under a tank than vice versa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 And I always thought the M5 was located at the West end of the M4!! :rofl::rofl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooTallMike Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Recce Stuarts were known as Honeys and had their turrets removed to improve visibility, reduce weight etc. Someone restored one that was at W&P last year. Couldn't comment on why the engine is absent though! - Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 All Stuarts were known as Honeys in the British Army, this is supposed to have come about after the first Stuarts were received by the Eighth Army in the Western Desert. A tank commander on being asked for his opinion of the new vehicle is reputed to have replied 'She's a honey' and the name stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooTallMike Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Ok, I'm not going mad, wrong about the name though D'oh! :-X Photos of the restored one here. I think it was Badger's old one (?): http://www.penguin-mayhem.net/gallery/album97 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Let's hope they'll restore it. Btw, if I'm not mistaken there were turretless M5's used as dozers during the war. But the enigne would have been in though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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