Tanks as Monuments / Displays

[Linedoggie]

On 7/18/2020 at 11:49 PM, patches said:

Here's a photo of it's platform being built. It is given the Bumper Code of 7th Army 191st Tank Battalion, A Company. The 191st Tk Bn was one of those Consolidated Tank Battalions formed in 1941 from existing National Guard Divisional Tank Companies (Stanton gives a February 1941 date).

 

A Company of the battalion being formed from the NYNG's 27th Division's Tank Company, the 27th Tank Company, the 191st  Tk Bn sees action in Italy as a 5th Army Troop Unit attached I think to the 3rd Infantry Division, it goes in in the invasion of the French Riviera now as a 7th Army Troop Unit where it is attached mostly to the 45th Infantry Division.

Whoever's in charge, needs to seriously ditch the M2HB barrel in the hull gun ballmount

[Linedoggie]

2 hours ago, Proud Kraut said:

A Patton and a Sherman tank I photographed in front of the Diekirch Historical Museum in Luxembourg 5 years ago.

 

 

 

She's an M4A1E8 with all the post war mods.  Few ever saw WW2 service in this configuration. Many were sold to the French like this

[patches]

6 hours ago, Linedoggie said:

Whoever's in charge, needs to seriously ditch the M2HB barrel in the hull gun ballmount

Good catch, didn't notice that.

[patches]

 Stuart in New Milford Connecticut.

[patches]

Here's one in Warsaw Indiana,

[patches]

Another Stuart, Maywood Illinois.

[Salvage Sailor]

Bataan Memorial Stuart Tank - Camp San Luis Obispo

 

 

 

[12thengr]

 I may have posted this in the past; but what the heck, it's a Stuart. Ft. Lewis Museum some years back. Many years back. My son (pictured) is now 42 years old!🤣

[patches]

One of the 70th Tank Battalion's M4 Shermans lost during the Slapton Sands action was recovered in 1984 and restored as best as possible and placed as a monument in the Village of Torcross. 

[GatorDoc]

3rd ID tank in Luxemburg at Musee National D'Historie Militaire.

Sherman M4Ae38 at Schofield Barracks

[GatorDoc]

Moody AFB A-10 Range.

[patches]

A Sherman in the town of Cassino, the town at the foot of Monte Cassino, the town was completely wiped out, wasn't totally rebuilt till the 60s. Those Blocks of Stone no doubt from the old destroyed town.

Cassino in 1944

[General Apathy]

On 6/24/2023 at 8:21 AM, patches said:

One of the 70th Tank Battalion's M4 Shermans lost during the Slapton Sands action was recovered in 1984 and restored as best as possible and placed as a monument in the Village of Torcross. 

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Hi Patches

 

Ken Small spent thirty years of his life dedicated to the recovery of this Sherman from the seabed and placing it on shore as a memorial to the 639 American lives lost in the training exercise carried out on this beach prior to D-Day. 

 

https://exercisetigermemorial.co.uk/
 

Welcome to Exercise Tiger Memorial

 

regards lewis.

 

...

 

 

[Linedoggie]

On 2/24/2023 at 12:47 AM, patches said:

 Stuart in New Milford Connecticut.

I believe it's an M3A1, also note 3 types of roadwheel

Open spoke

Welded up spoke

Solid stamped

[patches]

 

Conn Barracks West Germany 1970s, barracks named in memory of 2nd Lieutenant Orville B. Conn, Jr. 6th Cavalry Group KIA France in August 1944. Memorial in the 3rd Division's 3rd Bn 64th Armor AO. Not sure on the significance of the Name and Ranks on hull, Members of the original WWII Crew who maybe were killed as crew of this particular tank??? Though it would not be for the 3/64 Armor as this unit wasn't in existence till the late 50s. but anyway don't know what the device there is either

[patches]

Forgot where this is.

[patches]

On 9/16/2023 at 1:19 AM, patches said:

Forgot where this is.

Yes this is in Irzyk Park, Salem Mass named for Brigadier General Albin F. Irzyk., a Tanker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albin_F._Irzyk

[patches]

Monument in Avranches France, do believe however this is just an M4 Medium painted with Creighton Abrams' Command Tank Markings.

[patches]

At the Overloon Museum The Netherlands, Sherman marked for the 7th Armored Division's 40th Tank Battalion, the 7th Armd Div did indeed see action in and  around Overloon in Operation Market Garden when the U.S. XIX Corps was sent up there to reinforce British XXX Corps. Uncertain if this an actual tank that was in the division though.

[The Rooster]

On 2/23/2023 at 11:55 PM, patches said:

Another Stuart, Maywood Illinois.

This one caught my eye Patches.

Maywood Illinois outside of Chicago.

Maywood was home to Company B formerly 33rd Tank Company, The 192nd Tank Battalion.

From wikipedia

 

The activated Army National Guard 192nd Tank Battalion initially received training at Fort Knox, and Polk. The unit left San Francisco in October 1941, arriving in the Philippines on 20 November 1941. On 22 December 1941, the 192nd Tank Battalion became the first American tank unit to engage enemy armor in tank to tank combat during World War II. The unit withdrew to the Bataan Peninsula as part of the general retreat, and ceased to exist on 9 April 1942 when the last surviving American and Philippine forces on the Bataan Peninsula surrendered. Some men went to Corregidor, while others escaped to the jungle. Those who remained, participated in the Bataan Death March. They remained prisoners of war until the close of the invasion of the Philippines. Some prisoners at Cabanatuan were rescued by US Army Rangers on 30 December 1944. Others were sent to Japan or other parts of the Japanese empire as laborers. Of the 593 officers and men of the 192nd Tank Battalion who went to the Philippines in October 1941, 328 did not survive the war.[10]

 

Janesville, Wisconsin (Company A, formerly 32nd Tank Company),

Maywood, Illinois (Company B formerly 33rd Tank Company),

Port Clinton, Ohio (Company C formerly 37th Tank Company) and

Harrodsburg, Kentucky (Company D formerly 38th Tank Company).

 

The activated Army National Guard 194th and 192nd Tank Battalions were each equipped with 54 of the newly manufactured M3 Stuart light tanks, along with 23 half-tracks per battalion.[

 

Of the 89 men of Company “B” who left Maywood Illinois, US......  in 1941, only 43 would return from the war.

 

 

[patches]

Thanks Rooster.

 

And this is their Armory in Maywood, the Golden Cross Patch figuring prominently there we see. I wonder if building here still stands?

 

 

[rd12]

I had a chance to visit the Lewis Army Museum located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and they have a nice collection of about 40 wheeled vehicles, tracked vehicles, artillery pieces and tanks. Here are some of the rarer tanks on display;

M103A2 Heavy tank (only a few of these on display anywhere in the world)

M551 Sheridan

M55 Self Propelled 8" Howitzer

 

 

 

[The Rooster]

On 12/16/2023 at 12:03 AM, patches said:

Thanks Rooster.

 

And this is their Armory in Maywood, the Golden Cross Patch figuring prominently there we see. I wonder if building here still stands?

 

 

 

The armory still stands but you cant recognize it. Its a warehouse for the city of Maywood.

Im guessing that the original facade is still there under all the newer construction?

That Armory had a steady supply of recruits because the Proviso East High School is right across the street.

[The Rooster]

I had the displeasure of riding around in one of these standing in the un padded loaders hatch.

At Fort Irwin California,.

My hips took quite a beating.

[The Rooster]

Correction.......... The old 33rd tank battalion armory is a commercial space now housing The Reuse Depot.

Heres an article on it.

 

https://www.forestparkreview.com/2014/10/06/one-of-the-largest-reusable-building-material-retailers-in-chicagoland-opens-in-maywood/