Post War use of Allied vehicles and tanks

There looks a few too many for all of them to be the crew.

 

Yes but there are piles of infantry ammo and rifle stacked nearbye, these are photos of the clean up phase probably in the Ran of Cutch Punjab.

Steve

 

Korea


And some of my favorite Shermans from the war. The 89th Tank Battalion "Tigers"

 

"These markings were specific to a couple of tank units during Operations Ripper and Killer in 1951. The belief was that these markings would help to simultaneously inspire the troops and terrorize the Chinese who supposedly were very superstitious and held the tiger in awe. Some tanks in the 89th Tank Battalion were also painted to resemble devil's faces (Rice's Red Devils). Whether or not these exotic markings actually had any effect on the Chinese is debatable, but they certainly do look cool and add a bit of color to a normally drab Sherman tank."

Modeling the Sherman Tank in 1/72nd - Korean War Shermans

 

weren't some M-47/48 painted in the same fashion??



Cheers...

 

The M26 Pershing did.

 

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In service shot from the old book Armor in Korea.

 

Looks like Chaffees did too

 

Irish Army Churchill
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I mentioned the Irish Churchill in post # 32 .

"The version in use with the Irish Army was the Mark VI, which was produced from December 1943, it was heavily armoured, maximum armour of 102mm, and mounted a 75mm OF Mk 5 gun. According to "Irish Army Vehicles", the gun had an maximum range of 2,000 yards with an AP round and 10,000 yards with a HE round. However, by all accounts, the gun was almost totally ineffective, even in 1944, against opposing tanks.

Four Churchills entered Irish service, all were ex British Army models with very low mileage and were reportedly in excellent condition upon their arrival. Two were delivered on December 20th, 1948, with a further one on December 24th and the last one on January 28th, 1949. Again, according to "Irish Army Vehicles", these were delivered under a five year, secret, lease deal with the British MoD, they were purchased in 1954.

The Churchills appeared to fit the Defence Forces requirements perfectly, as the DF considered Ireland unsuitable for tank warfare, and always considered tanks in the Infantry support role."

Irish Armoured Vehicles

 

sorry about that, I did look on the previous posts and couldn't find it- I pressed the various links either its me or I'm going to blame the snow. I really want to know how snow affects the internet.

The Churchill 7 show as Jordanian (most books say that) an Arab speaking acquaintence of mine from the Levant says he thinks it is more likely to be Iraqi -evidently the writing on the turret which says "Sword of god" or "Sword of the righteous" or similar is a more Iraqi kind of thing.

 

No Prob. I have to start making sure Im not reposting now LOL. Im not sure about the Arabic. Not my area LOL. The Churchill pic was stated as such from here '

http://northirishhorse.net/articles-2/Jordan/1.html

 

The picture of the Churchill 7 (titled Jordanian) was first published in the Airfix Magazine in a series called the Churchill Tank from July to December 1967 by Chris Ellis so it goes back a long way.

 

Well I do trust Mr. Ellis's knowledge .

 

NOW here is a conversion I had not heard of before!



MAR 290
"This long-range artillery system led to the development of an 290mm rocket indigenous system by IMI, which was mainly used in the Peace For Galilee (1982)."

 

Two more Israeli conversions
240mm x 36 rockets preceeded the 290mm system into service
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The Israeli Kilshon radar supression system for supression of Pat Hand SA6 A/A battery radar. uses a modified sparrow missile with a 2nd as a boost stage
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2nd photo for missile without tarp.
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Sherman as an evasive target tank

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Sherman Firefly in Lebabnon 1976?

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