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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22782 Location: UK

Morning all,

Not being too well up on old tanks, can anyone shed light on this hefty machine, and perhaps the location?

RJ
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Churchill Johnson · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex

Look's very much like a sherman with 75mm gun, at a guess where taken, during national service at a training depot 1950's ?

62rebel · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:27 am Post subject:

Not a Sherman, but based on Sherman running gear; it's actually not a "tank" PROPER, but a "tank destroyer", probably an M10. It has an open-topped, lightly armored turret, and probably a 90mm main gun. The sloped glacis plate and hull sides afforded better protection for the hull but this was a hunting machine, utilized in quickly manuevering around and shooting hell out of the backsides of German armor, not standing and slugging it out, which as we all know was not a good idea against German armor. My uncle Freddie was a Tank Destroyerman with the 2nd armored division. As far as to where that particular photo was taken, I haven't the foggiest.
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Peter_L · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 1:13 am Post subject:

It may well be a T14 Assault Tank

http://www.toadmanstankpictures.com/t14.htm

If the image in the link is Bovington, then the photo location is same place.

Note roof pan tiles, window design and doors.

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22782 Location: UK

Agreed, T14 looks like a match and the building is very similar. As you say, quite possibly the exact same machine.

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62rebel · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 3:40 pm Post subject:

I didn't even consider the possibility of prototypes... centrist thinking, that! the hull machine gun mount looked "off" to me for an m10, but I was willing to cede field modifications. The Churchill was a far better tank than the Sherman.
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