WWI Tanks in WWII

What I find interesting is the the Dummy Gun in the illustration looks similar to what was in the FT-17.

 

I think it is based on the turret of the current Vickers Light tank MkVIA or B which had a pair of Vickers one .303 and the other 50cal side by side rather like a WW1 fighter

 

Looking at it again I think you are right.

 

IIRC The FT17 was used in Canada until 1945 when they were declared scrap again.

 

I remember seeing a photo in the now defunct magazine Wheels and Tracks of wreckage from a 6tonner hard target having been dug up on a range I think CFB Shilo.

Being a simple design it would probably be a good inital training machine.

 

It truly is amazing at the long service life that that design had.

 

Too bad that most were scrapped or used for targets. But it is understandable for that era. There are a few survivors around today. I think the newest being the one found in Afghanistan.

 

http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_WW1_Tanks.pdf

 

Now heres a shot for you!!! Horses,bicycles and a FT-17! LOL

 

A member of the Calgary Highlanders poses beside a French-made Char tank in France in the summer of 1944. Germany made extensive use of captured French armour during the Second World War, though usually in second-line units. The Calgary Highlanders faced a mix of second line division and fanatic SS troops in their earliest battles in Normandy.

Second World War Photos - Calgary Highlanders

 

the Thread has served its purpose and will be closed

 

I am sure the Panzer Battalion 100 used captured French Tanks in Normandy, I dont know if any FT-17s were amound them or not, but the used spme Somua's.

 

I dont know if anyone said this but the soviets has thier own version of the FT-17 called the MS-1.