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Not sure of the caliber of that gun, but the Canadian made Grizzly can elevate that high

 

I would say it's an imaginary caliber, since that's some kind of fabrication and not an actual tank gun. It appears this M4, which looks like an old range target, didn't actually have a main gun and they just made one.

 

See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rnrobert/8075666752

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The tank didn't even have the same treads on each side. Probably just recycled parts, but it's still really cool looking. There are some really fine Pattons there in great shape, but this sad sherman still stood proud, broken as it was.

 

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I shot this old beauty at Battleship Monument Park in Mobile Al. last weekend.

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interesting gun rotor assembly, looks like its not the normal M34/M34A1 but the one for the 105mm howitzer version. the Gun fitted is fantasy

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One more for now, but I'll post more soon.

 

Here is a n M-60 on display in Big Spring, TX. They have a nice Vietnam Memorial there with an F-4, UH-1, and AH-1 in addition to this M-60.

 

-Derek

 

 

 

This looks like an M-60 A3

Just my 2 centavos

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Great pictures!

 

I'm going back to visit Germany next summer and on my Bucket-List is to find some of our old vehicles.

 

John

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I remembered this photo I took at Ft Hood one day around mid late September 1980, maybe early October, when around the Main Post, don't remember why I had my camera with me, was able to find it and scan it, a M4A3E8, painted over as we see in a MERDC pattern camouflage. Also just noticed that the hull machingun has been faired over

 

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Here is a Sherman tank from North Africa campaign that was later refitted for planned invasion of Japan. This is located at the Museum of WWII in Natick, MA.

 

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We see Penna NG units on that plaque Kollektor, but where in Penna is this? Kane? Erie?

 

Great fotos by the way! And thanks for adding them.

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BILL THE PATCH

Here's me taking a picture of my two boys last year at, the new York state military museum, they were setting the Sherman tank in the front of museum, it was sitting in the back of the old armory for years. My son's school is across the street, we just came from one of his track meetspost-11207-0-53045800-1496811417_thumb.jpg

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Here's me taking a picture of my two boys last year at, the new York state military museum, they were setting the Sherman tank in the front of museum, it was sitting in the back of the old armory for years. My son's school is across the street, we just came from one of his track meetsattachicon.gifrps20170606_225644_235.jpg

So that's what's going on, I thought that Sherman was trying to Bust That Barrier :lol:

 

Great picture

 

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post-32632-0-41250700-1498606676_thumb.jpgpost-32632-0-30887100-1498606707_thumb.jpg I guess this is still the gun monument section. 75mm gun, Creston Wa.

 

post-32632-0-09173400-1498606985_thumb.jpgpost-32632-0-86329900-1498607021_thumb.jpg Hwy 2 just south of the Grand Coulee. My Dad crewed one of these, pre-WW2.

 

post-32632-0-04274900-1498607568_thumb.jpg I don't know why 1/2 my pictures post sideways. Gun from my Dad's section, Cailf. 1941.

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M37 Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) Self-Propelled Gun (SPG).

 

We were bumping around Massachusetts earlier in June when we drove by a "tank," as my sweetheart referred to it. Turns out the AFV was an M37 Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) Self-Propelled Gun (SPG). This vehicle is located at the VFW in Georgetown, MA, along Highway 133.
Not only was I unaware of what the vehicle was initially (I was looking in the other direction and just got a very quick glimpse of it while we passed), I was ignorant of the very existence of the vehicle. So I learned something interesting and thought other members of the forum might be interested also. I initially thought it was an M7 Priest.
Appearing similar to the M7 Priest, the M37 mated the gun of the M4 Sherman 105 series with the chassis of the M24 Chaffee light tank. The M37 was a self-propelled gun of the American military appearing towards the end of World War II. It was developed from the existing chassis of the M24 Chaffee Light Tank as a faster, lighter alternative to the heavier, slower M7 "Priest". Initial examples were delivered in 1945, the last year of the war. Despite this, the M37 missed out on combat actions in the war altogether though it managed to remain in inventory into the Korean War (1950-1953). Total production ultimately reached 316 units of the 448 originally ordered, all delivered from General Motors. As a conversion of the M24, the M37 incorporated the same running gear with an all-new, fixed open-air superstructure. The hull superstructure was given a right-side mounted machine gun "pulpit" as seen the M7 Priest series before it. The 105mm gun was settled in a mounting near the vehicle's centerline (slightly offset to right). The remainder of the design consisted of an open-topped armored tub which encompassed the gunnery crew's fighting compartment (only the driver was protected from the elements).

 

 

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Here is a tank in the small town of Germfask, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. The tank had 1st Armored Division markings.

 

Jacob

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M37 Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) Self-Propelled Gun (SPG).

 

We were bumping around Massachusetts earlier in June when we drove by a "tank," as my sweetheart referred to it. Turns out the AFV was an M37 Gun Motor Carriage (GMC) Self-Propelled Gun (SPG). This vehicle is located at the VFW in Georgetown, MA, along Highway 133.
Not only was I unaware of what the vehicle was initially (I was looking in the other direction and just got a very quick glimpse of it while we passed), I was ignorant of the very existence of the vehicle. So I learned something interesting and thought other members of the forum might be interested also. I initially thought it was an M7 Priest.
Appearing similar to the M7 Priest, the M37 mated the gun of the M4 Sherman 105 series with the chassis of the M24 Chaffee light tank. The M37 was a self-propelled gun of the American military appearing towards the end of World War II. It was developed from the existing chassis of the M24 Chaffee Light Tank as a faster, lighter alternative to the heavier, slower M7 "Priest". Initial examples were delivered in 1945, the last year of the war. Despite this, the M37 missed out on combat actions in the war altogether though it managed to remain in inventory into the Korean War (1950-1953). Total production ultimately reached 316 units of the 448 originally ordered, all delivered from General Motors. As a conversion of the M24, the M37 incorporated the same running gear with an all-new, fixed open-air superstructure. The hull superstructure was given a right-side mounted machine gun "pulpit" as seen the M7 Priest series before it. The 105mm gun was settled in a mounting near the vehicle's centerline (slightly offset to right). The remainder of the design consisted of an open-topped armored tub which encompassed the gunnery crew's fighting compartment (only the driver was protected from the elements).

 

 

 

That's a new one on me too. Thanks for the pictures and information.

Mikie

 

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Dinotanker

There is a really crisp example of an M60A3 at the Shrine of Remembrance in Colorado Springs, CO. I swung by the monument the other day. It was dedicated by Ft. Carson and 4ID (M) leaders back in 1996. I remember participating in the ceremony when I was still on active duty. The vehicle is dedicated to the 11th ACR and has Blackhorse insignia on it. It is very well-maintained and is an excellent example of the final run of the M60 series vehicles that were in service in the U.S. Army throughout the 1980s and 1990s prior to transition to the M1 services MBTs.

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Next to my 2/12th Cav barracks area off to the side on the one street at Hood there was an old Walker Bulldog, solid OD and no Stars and no Bumper Numbers. it was on a traffic island, got a picture of it, snapped it in like December 80, but I took it through the windshield of my buddies POV as I was sitting in the back seat and driving towards it. Not worth posting as it came out terrible, not one my best photographic efforts :lol:

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Great thread. Looking for an M-41 "Walker Bulldog" like I drove as an under-aged N.Y. National Guardsman in the 101st Armored Cav. in 1954-56.

Semper Fi......Bobgee

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Bobgee,

There are two M-41 Walker Bulldog light tanks at the main entrance to Ft. Carson, Colorado (off of Hwy 115). Both are in excellent shape and are part of the static displays outside the 4ID (M) Military Museum.

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