Walter_Sobchak

I remember seeing Rambo III at the second run theatre when I was a kid. It was terrible on all sorts of levels. Personally, my favorite part is when he magically is able to operate a tank all by himself and use the main gun to shoot down a helicopter.

So I thought it might be a fun project to create a list of authors who have written about tanks and armored warfare for my website. I was going to limit the list to authors who have been published in English. I was thinking I would categorize them and provide whatever biographical info that I could. I started going through my book collection and files collecting names. I am not finished and I already am getting overwhelmed. I have not included memoirs by armor officers unless they were actual tank commanders. Here is what I have so far, not sorted or organized yet: List of Tank and AFV Authors Steven Zaloga Richard Ogorkiewicz David Fletcher Robert J Icks Kenneth Estes Harry Yeide George Forty Simon Dunstan Kenneth Macksey Pat Ware Thomas Jentz Hillary Doyle Richard Hunnicutt Chris Ellis Peter Chamberlain Michael and Gladys Green Peter Beale A J Smithers Robert Griffin M P Robinson James Loop Walter J Spielberger Uwe Feist Norm Harms Charles Kliment Janusz Magnuski Bruce Culver Peter Brown B. T. White Dr. F. M. von Senger und Etterlin John Milsom Roger Ford Horst Scheibert Mikhail Baryatinskiy Robert Forczyk Lon Nordeen & David Isby John Buckley Bruce Quarrie (wehraboo) Heinz Nawarra George Bradford William Auerbach Orr Kelly Peter Gudgin Chris Bishop Armin Halle Ian Hogg Robert Jackson (hack) Franz Kurowski Robert Citino Richard Dinardo Roman Jarymowycz Artem Drabkin M. H. Gillie Belton Cooper Patrick Stansell and Kurt Laughlin Alexander Ludeke Denis Showalter Otto Carius Rolf Hilmes Wolfgang Schneider Anthony Tucker-Jones Thomas Anderson Dave Higgins Wolfgang Faust Bill Munro Stephan A Hart Francois Verlinden Bryan Perrett Joachim Engelmann Gordon Rottman W. J. K. Davies Wolfgang Fleischer Michael Jerchel Michael Norman Michael Scheibert James Bingham David Eshel Samuel Katz Michael Mass Marsh Gelbart F Cappellano & PP Battistelli Ralph Riccio and Nicola Pignato Adam Geibel Tomio Hara Fred Crimson Charles Bailey Robert Cameron Oscar Gilbert James D'Angina Jim Mesko More to come....

If they are publishing it with the same quality paper as the original books, I can see why it's $100 bucks for the hardcover. I have some of the later, less popular volumes that Hunnicutt published, I think the original price printed on the dust Jacket is $95.

I feel your pain, I have a similar list. Even at 70 bucks, I am afraid I will have to manage with only possessing the PDF versions of the Hunnicutt Sherman books right now.

Obviously, you haven't been reading my website. http://tankandafvnews.com/2015/04/09/book-alert-hunnicutts-sherman-and-stuart-reprinted/

A Jack Russell Terrier does not need a machine gun. They have endless energy, an infinite capacity for barking and a steely resolve to destroy all small things that squeak.

Judging from the top picture in the article, they are also equipped with a Jack Russell Terrier.

Whatever it's based on, it's just about the flimsiest looking suspension I have ever seen.

Aww, look how cute it is.

I have my tickets to see the Melvins this June. I am content.

The Burlak turret is really weird looking. It's nice that they took environmental sustainability into account with the design and put those rain water collectors on the front of the turret.

Nah, the GI Joe team were true American capitalists. We know this because they occasionally fought their Soviet equivalent, the Oktober Guard. Typically, they start out fighting each other but then have to team up to defeat Cobra. Kinda like WW2 I guess. When I was a kid I always wanted more Oktober Guard appearances in the GI Joe comic. Unfortunately, they didn't make Oktober guard figures until I was too old to play with toys anymore.

No, it is indeed the MOBAT. You were right the first time, it's a MOBAT with some crap glued to it. I had a MOBAT tank when I was a kid, I played with it quite.

I found this in a 1989 issue of ARMOR magazine. What caught my eye was the "model" in the picture. It seemed rather familiar to me, as it might to others who liked army themed toys as kids in the early 1980's. A gold star to whoever can identify it.

I use that sentence all the time in a variety of contexts.

That's really interesting stuff. Renhanxue, are you the owner of the Swedish Tank Archives blog?

two more for the US section Evaluation of Siliceous Cored Armor for the XM60 Tank INVESTIGATION OF THE VULNERABILITY TO BALLISTIC ATTACK OF TWO T77 OSCILLATING TURRETS Trials Against Conqueror Tanks with Additional Ballistic Protection. Part 2: The Use of Large Hollow-Charge Warheads War Metallurgy This one has sections dealing with WW2 tank armor technology, rather techinical in nature. Firing Trials with the 120mm. Tank Gun in Conqueror FV214 Using APDS/T. Shot (Lanoline Treated) and HES Shell in all St

Its funny, Cali has several private collections and museums, but very few tanks outside of VFW or American Legion halls. Whenever I am feeling in need of some company of the Sherman variety, there is a M4A3 on display about a ten minute drive from my house. I also have a few M60's, an M48 and a M43 SPG within ten minutes of my house.

Funny thing about the M4A1E8, it was the very last version to leave the production line. The final models were produced in August of 45, after production of all other models had stopped. If you want to see more M4A1E8 tanks, go to Indiana. There are 13 of them on display in front of various veterans halls and public parks in that state.

Jeeps, you are an ambitious man.

Volume 2,3 and 4 have some very interesting reading in them. Stories of bazookas and 57mm guns blowing up Panthers and stuff like that. Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2) ‘How to Research’ Guide Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2). Technical Report Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2). Volume 2. U.S. Anti-Tank Defense at Mortain, France (August, 1944) Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2). Volume 3. U.S. Anti-Tank Defense at Dom Butgenbach, Belgium (December, 1944) Anti-Armor Defense Data Study (A2D2). Volume 4. US Anti-Tank Defense at Krinkelt-Rocherath, Belgium (December, 1944)

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My favorite new name for an old timey AFV is a "skirmish machine."

I'm with Xthetenth on this one. The Civil War was more important than the American Revolution. As long as slavery was part of the Constitution it was a pretty meaningless document. If you really want a dramatic way to put it, I would recommend reading what William LLoyd Garrison had to say about the Constitution.