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  1. Walter_Sobchak
    This is from Denmark, May of 1945
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    Also, the US Ambassador to Estonia has resigned after having served six former presidents in various capacities. I am pretty sure this is the first time the US ambassador to Estonia has made the news since 1940.
  3. Walter_Sobchak
    Did I mention that General Motors has come out with an official statement declaring that they are not immune to basic laws of economics?
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    Meanwhile, Trump begs Saudi Arabia to boost production. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-says-saudi-king-agreed-raise-oil-production-121408115.html
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    And it makes me question those cheering for the Leopard.
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    I just thought it was weird that no one mentioned it considering the amount of media attention it got. Sounds like it was an example of a local nutjob shooting up some innocent local reporters. Very sad.
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    I don't suppose anyone noticed a local newspaper in Maryland getting shot up?
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    I think one of the first Panzer or Panzer Grenadier Divisions encountered by the US in the Cotentin Peninsula was equipped with captured French armor. It might have been the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier division, which was short of equipment and using old french crap. Edit: On second thought, I think this is probably where those R-35 tanks came from: Fourteen R 35 tanks, used to train tank drivers, equipped the 100. Panzer-Ersatz-Bataillon (100th Panzer Replacement Battalion) in the German Seventh Army in 1944. On 6 June 1944, they were among the first Armee-Reserveunits sent into combat near Sainte-Mère-Église to oppose the American airborne landings in Normandy. Supporting a counterattack by the 1057th Grenadier Regiment, R35s penetrated the command post of the U.S. 1st Battalion 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment before being destroyed by bazooka fire
  10. Walter_Sobchak
    Fixed that for you.
  11. Walter_Sobchak
    45 tons is just too heavy for a early 1940's medium tank.
  12. Walter_Sobchak
    Here is the patent for the Kegresse track system used in pre-WWII French Half-tracks. https://patents.google.com/patent/US1980276A/en?inventor=Kegresse+Adolphe&page=1
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    I just think it's funny that we had a tank transporter big enough to haul a Jagdtiger and the German's didn't.
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    Mars 15
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    Véhicule blindé de combat d'infanterie
  16. Walter_Sobchak
    Wheeled vehicle ID is my Achilles heal...
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    Since nobody got it, I'll finish this one off. It's the Martel "Mechanical Coffin". Page 47, David Fletcher's book "Mechanized Force: British Tanks Between the Wars". Martel had created some of the early tankettes in the late 1920's, but after a while, he decided those were too big. So he created this silly thing. A soldier was supposed to lay down in it and drive forward. Once he got close to the enemy, it had a lift up panel he would use as armor and fire his rifle through.
  18. Walter_Sobchak
    No one has attempted this one yet?
  19. Walter_Sobchak
    Ah, I see what you mean.
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    I seem to recall reading that the very first M4 they had didn't have a gun, so they rearmed with a German or Italian artillery piece. I'll have to look it up. They also stole a Cromwell or two from the British with some inside help.
  22. Walter_Sobchak
    Unfortunately for Israel in that period, they were not on our good side and their M4's usually came from third party sources.
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    Interesting picture for sale on Ebay. This is supposed to be Italy 1944. The Sherman tank in the background still has the old style suspension bogies with the return roller directly on top instead set to the back. My guess would be 1st Armored Division. They were the first US armored unit to see action so they would have had some pretty early model M4 tanks, and they ended up in Italy after 1943.
  25. Walter_Sobchak
    Used copies are quite affordable on Amazon if you want to take a trip down memory lane.
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