Right, I've come back in and nobody's found the answer yet. All I can guess is ARLv39 ancestor or some connection with T1 75mm, but that's not...
This is starting to bug me now! It looks kinda similar to the renault below, perhaps an ancestor of the R35?
Patton's? Wasn't that an FT17?
The running gear looks char 2c or B1 - ish, difficult to tell size from pic. More clues please!
British official nicknames for tanks US AFVs were not usually given official names until late in the war, just a letter, number and sub series...
Who's got the next question?
some info After World War I, the French colonial authorities wanted to expand the local fishing industry, but their efforts became irrelevant...
Yes that was them. Now I think about it, the US or Canada were planning to occupy them but Vichy sent a deterent force, so I got it completely the...
Before the next question comes up I feel duty bound (as a pedant) to point out that no parts of the UK were ever occupied in WWII. Only foreign...
LOL! The Internal security man remark made me choke on my coffee :D
I think you're right on all counts but would add that it gave weighty tanks a smooth ride cross country so the crew weren't thrown all over place....
nahverteidigungswaffe Thanks for the info and links markus. If anyone is interested in the brief details - introduced 1943/44, mostly used as...
Split from "Tanks Suspensions" Skua wrote : - Christie type suspension : Every road wheel was independently suspended, attached to a pivoted bell...
Ooh Wspauldo12! You are on dangerous ground suggesting that Sherman's were flamable. Other phrases to avoid are 'Ronson' and 'Tommy cooker'....
The allies found that fragments from Mills bombs and the like could travel as far as 200m from the site of detonation, with obviuos implications...
There is a good site on infantry anti-tank methods (including some info on Finnish methods) at http://www.wwiitechpubs.info/barrack/in ......
That was a most enlightening post Merlin! Was that technique in the official manual?! I've seen pictures of wartime British trainee gunners at the...
I forgot the Marmon Herrington CTL series, possibly the worst tank of the war, certainly the worst US tank. I don't have the specs to hand but...
. Stick-bomb, hand stick-grenade. I can't get the image of Ewoks attacking a T28 in Finnish forests out of my head (or perhaps ski-woks in the...
This probably explains why tanks were given guns instead of bull-bars. It does suggest the amusing possibility of tanks with crumple zones and...
