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  1. EnsignExpendable
    I saw the famous Michael Sherman at Bovington. Interestingly enough, it has the red British "unarmoured" triangle screwed into the side. Was the tank actually made from mild steel or did they simply not want it to be sent into combat?
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    German tanks in France were chiefly light tanks. The PzIII was available only in small numbers because they had one hell of a time getting production ramped up. As for a bad rap, probably because you can't put a huge fuckoff gun on the chassis. Interestingly enough, the Soviets liked the PzIII. It was popular to use in captured tank units and there were two SPG designs that used it as a chassis.
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    It's a good game.
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    Rest of photos: https://imgur.com/gallery/92KisHb
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    I saw a lot of "were flamethrowers used in Europe" questions pop up in the past week. Looks like a good confirmation that it was.
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    But the 2S1 wasn't in service yet
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    The dimensional accuracy may have suffered a little from Office Lens. It didn't seem off on paper.
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    Looks like it.
  11. EnsignExpendable
    The tank I am referring to was sent to Tel-El-Kebir in August of 1942. It still had the old M2 gun and you can see the distinctive counterweight in the camouflage diagrams they distributed. The ones distributed only a few months later depict the standard M3 gun.
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    Thank you for continuing your work in teaching us how to root out Kharkovite saboteurs.
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    There was definitely more than one. Both Michael and the first tank to arrive in North Africa had an M2 gun.
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    The local university had a book sale, so I basically swept up everything with as much as the word "tank" in it off the military history table. But wait, there's more. Zoom, enhance! These books bound in red cloth are each worth as much as the rest of that stack combined. They're official histories of the Canadian army, published only a few years after the war with the backing of the Department of National Defense. As a result they have amazing photographs and maps actually drawn by military cartographers. And the best part is that since they've been printed 70 years ago, so they're all out of copyright
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    75 mm gun M2. Their Sherman didn't have an AA .50 cal.
  16. EnsignExpendable
    You got STALKER into my Fallout!
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    That's no problem for a Russian army "restoration" team.
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    I can't tell if this is a Sherman they tried to disguise as something else or something else they tried to disguise as a Sherman. It's bad either way.
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    It was great when people tried to pronounce the name in Teamspeak. My favourites were "leffe" and "lefeuf".
  20. EnsignExpendable
    My article on the Sexton is out: https://warspot.ru/13071-ponomar-boga-voyny Sorry @whelm, the editor cut out my acknowledgement.
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    @Jeeps_Guns_Tanks do you know if there were any M2-armed Shermans with only one hull MG? I have a British report where it's almost certainly a tank with an M2 (the first to arrive in Africa), but the description says there is only one hull MG instead of there.
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    Yup, it was at the museum. Hopefully the parts won't sit out there for long.
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    Some Sherman bits and pieces.
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    https://g.redditmedia.com/VEgD3iy0rn5NtU-iTAQ5K952q3gPNLVunZefzNdZq8s.gif?w=728&fm=mp4&mp4-fragmented=false&s=224ee25e0e7796feb9a59a0c84890f72
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