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Discussion in 'Armor and Armored Fighting Vehicles' started by Slipdigit, Apr 3, 2012.

  1. Slipdigit

    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Could someone identify this tank?

    Mega bonus points if you can tell where it was made.

    Super mega bonus points if you can tell me from what video I took this screen shot from.[​IMG]
     

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    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Here is another shot from the same video of some more tanks. I included it because the tank on the right is missing it's main gun

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    Anyone recognise the airplanes?

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    belasar Court Jester

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    American M-2's?
     
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    Well, the first ones look like M2A1 Mediums....which would mean they're from the 94 A1s built at the Rock Island Arsenal?
     
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    American garb, I'm pretty sure.
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    M2

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    Good shot Belasar.
    Going by the Glacis splashguards, more specifically the first ones are M2a1s:
    Medium Tank M2

    Interesting M3 Lights in that second shot - certainly some unusual turretage going on with both.

    What's the film, mate? I'd usually associate massed M2s in colour with the Louisiana maneuvres sort of period, but those planes look like jets?

    ~A

    (edit - sorry, cross-posted with three above. Alcapone is an M3, OP.)
     
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    Slipdigit Good Ol' Boy Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    I'll not say just yet on the video. Give some others a chance to guess on that.

    They did look like jets in video. I thought it odd that they were mixed in with pre-war or early war tanks.

    I'll give you hint on the video. It was in non-war related production made in 1949.
     
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    As stated, the top is a US M2 medium, the other photo (Wiki?) looks like an early M3 Light (as opposed to the M3 medium Lee/Grant), which morphed into the M3/M5 Stuart. The mediums had 3 pairs of bogies/track, the lights just 2 pairs of bogies/track. I have no idea where the video came from, but I'm impressed that these rare tanks would find their way into it, that's my 2 cents anyway.

    Ooops! That should be the M2 Light, which morphed into the M3/M5 Stuart.
     
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    Given the somewhat "pregnant" look of the 5 aircraft, they are very likely North American O-47s.
     
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    OpanaPointer your pic is an M2 light not an M2 medium.
    M2 Light Tank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The right tank on the second pic looks a gunless M3 light, either a prototype or retouched by censors. I would go with the O 47 as well.
     
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    The first photo is of (as previously noted in thread) M2A1 Medium tanks. The second photo (the one with two tanks in it) consists of a M3 light tank without a gun on the right and on the left is a M1 "combat car."
     
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