EnsignExpendable Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Donward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted August 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 What's the story on that? The turret looks weird, best guess would be late production large hatch M4A2 or M4A3 with 75mm gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Looks like a little bit of dust build-up in the oil bath filter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashbotUS Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Definitely not going to pass inspection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 What's the story on that? The turret looks weird, best guess would be late production large hatch M4A2 or M4A3 with 75mm gun. All I got was a caption, "Sinai Sandcastle". Definitely not going to pass inspection. It's fine, it's just hull down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Looks like everything that could be removed by scrappers was taken away. It's rather depressing to look at, a bit like the shell of a beetle that is long dead. Worthy of a sad poem perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 My bet is that it is an Egyptian M4A4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted August 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Can't be, it has a large hatch hull, no large hatch M4A4s were produced, it also has a loaders hatch, so it has to be an M4A3 or M4A2 75W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priory_of_Sion Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 I believe Egypt also had M4A2s in lower numbers compared to the A4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted August 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 It would be a really interesting story, if the wreck could talk, how it got there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Fight Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Looks like everything that could be removed by scrappers was taken away. It's rather depressing to look at, a bit like the shell of a beetle that is long dead. Worthy of a sad poem perhaps? I met a forumer from an ancient land... EnsignExpendable 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Those tracks..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted August 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Those are like movie props or something that looks like a sherman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Tracks looks like T-34s tracks, did they build those props on tractors or actual T-34s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 That is not a T-34 idler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 The one we can see from the side appears to have normal track links, but the one closest the camera appears to be equipped with Christie-style track links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Image searching led to this. LoooSeR, Priory_of_Sion and Collimatrix 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 So it is a mock-up for the movie Die Brucke. I haven't watched that film although the synopsis on the Wiki page seems par for the course of mid-20th Century European films. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Brücke_(film) More relevant, the director Bernhard Wicki oversaw the German speaking lines in The Longest Day. *Look towards camera. Say in emphatic disbelief "Normandy?!?" Cut to John Wayne telling his huys to move out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 So it is a mock-up for the movie Die Brucke. I haven't watched that film although the synopsis on the Wiki page seems par for the course of mid-20th Century European films. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Brücke_(film) More relevant, the director Bernhard Wicki oversaw the German speaking lines in The Longest Day. *Look towards camera. Say in emphatic disbelief "Normandy?!?" Cut to John Wayne telling his huys to move out. All in all, not the worst vismod I have seen for that era. At least they didn't just paint a white star on the T-34 and call it close enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted August 19, 2015 Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 https://video-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpa1/v/t42.1790-2/10671790_471745509634145_2114893461_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjYwOCwicmxhIjoxMTI4fQ%3D%3D&rl=608&vabr=338&oh=b85c595d339ba60a122a4291b7668a43&oe=55D41EA6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnsignExpendable Posted August 19, 2015 Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 I like how the Pak 40 was the only gun not being towed on its own chassis, but on a trailer. Superior American engineering wins again! Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter_Sobchak Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 https://video-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvideo-xpa1/v/t42.1790-2/10671790_471745509634145_2114893461_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjYwOCwicmxhIjoxMTI4fQ%3D%3D&rl=608&vabr=338&oh=b85c595d339ba60a122a4291b7668a43&oe=55D41EA6 link not working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperComrade Posted August 28, 2015 Report Share Posted August 28, 2015 Watching Engineering Disasters 11, and guess who makes an appearance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted August 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2015 Watching Engineering Disasters 11, and guess who makes an appearance Burn it with fire!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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