DD Shermans

Re: DD's

I shall have to go to bovey soon and get my copy. Thanks.

 

Here is the second picture (slightly later than promised) of that DD Valentine

[with thanks to Tankpark for the picture, and the reminder!]

 

talking about nice pictures! WOW

 

DD Photos.

Photos taken in April 2004.Cannot release venue. But get Ricky to post Churchill AVRE that came ashore at same time.Where does he get those pictures??Also have Black Prince pics. and gunnery test trials.Picture may be too large for these pages.

 

As requested!

[photo by kind permission & request of Tankpark]

I have to say, it is a cracking good picture of a cracking good subject...

79th Div Churchill

 

DD Valentine

The DD Valentine pictured earlier is billed to appear at, the,
WAR AND PEACE SHOW,
The Hop Farm Country Park,
Paddock Wood,
KENT. Phone.01662 872068.
The War And Peace Office. 01304 813945.
www.thewarandpeaceshow.com
(now's the chance for you "South of Watford Gap" wannabees to have a look at possibly the ONLY DD Valentine still around)
Nearly forgot, DATES are July21st-25th.
Billed as "The worlds Largest Military Vehicle Spectacular"

 

I heartily agree!

No bunker is going to survive getting hit by that gun. I think the US Marines would've liked to have had some of those for their amphibious assaults in the Pacific.

 

I remember reading that the British used petard armed Churchill and a Churchill Crocodile for bunker busting in the following way

Stage 1: Call on them to surrender
Stage 2: Blast open the bunker with petard mortar
Stage 3: Call on them to surrender
Stage 4: Hose down the bunker with the Churchill Crocodile's flame thrower

There was no stage five since by the end of stage four everyone in the bunker would be dead.

 

Duplex Drive

Sherman DD at Bovington.

 

Valentine DD At Bovington Tankfest.

 

what is so special about the petard mortar( sorry for my ignorance )?

 

Excellent pictures Chollie. Thanks and welcome to the forum.

 

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Is the Tankfest DD Valentine the same one as posted earlier landing on a beach somewhere? Great picture Chollie, were you at tankfest?

 

Hi, yes it's the same Valentine as posted earlier in the thread. I had the pleasure of chatting with it's owner the evening before the Tankfest show. The pictures posted of the beach landing were of a "memorial" landing to commemorate the first sea trials where some of the tanks got swamped and some crews drowned I believe.

Getting to tankfest and the museum was a cherished dream come true. Especially as I met up with some pals from the states for the show.

Like a lot of others I took a great many photies. You can find the link to them in this page. The page also has links to other photo's supplied by members of the group i'm in. http://pedg.chollie.co.uk/pedgfiles.htm

PS this is Chollie! I forgot my password and haven't got a new one emailled yet so I re-registered with a vartiation of my nick.

 

It was unsurpassed for close-range bunker killing.

 

By basically lobbing a big lump of high explosive at the target.