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Cromwell A27M - Antwerp 11th Armoured Division, British Army Monument - Walkaround.
The British Cromwell, officially designated Cruiser, Mk VIII,
Cromwell (A27M), was developed in 1940 after the Crusader (Cruiser Mk VI) would become obsolete.
Several companies started to develop prototypes, Vauxhall came up with the A23, a scaled down version of their A22 Churchill infantry tank, Nuffield submitted the A24 and BRC&W, both these designs were heavily
based on the Crusader design.
After struggling to get the cooling issues resolved and fit the right engine.
the first prototype of a Meteor-powered A27M Cromwell was delivered to the Army for trials in March 1942, before the A24 and A27L Centaur.
( The development of British vehicles always seem to be overly complex
with several production vehicles and companies developing the vehicles.
Cromwell developing the Cromwell or are involved in its development
(Vauxhall, Nuffield, Leyland, Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon, Rolls-Royce and Rover) and several production dates and vehicles. )
A complete move to Sherman tanks was not acceptable to British forces who would then be dependent on the US for tank production.
The Cromwell with the Meteor engine and main armament proofed
to be superior then the Sherman.The first real field test of the design was carried out in August–September 1943 and the first production
model design was finalised on 2 February 1944.
Total A27 production consisted of 4,016 tanks, 950 of which were
Centaurs and 3,066 Cromwells and it would see service until 1955.
The Cromwell was the fastest British tank to serve in ww2 this was extremely beneficial in both attack and defense
and it could outmaneuvering opponents in a lot of
circumstances, but the speed did do some damaged to the
Christie suspension and the later models the top speed
was lowered.
Production began in November 1942. new names were given to
all three designs A24 Cromwell I became the Cavalier, the Liberty powered
A27L Cromwell II became Centaur, and the Meteor powered A27M kept the name Cromwell.
Cromwell production was almost cancelled, because of the
Soviets had no interested in the Sherman tank anymore and this led to a surplus in Sherman tank.
But the lack of a high-velocity weapon and the failure to fit a High Velocity 75mm gun, to combat the German heavy tanks, would led to the development of the A34 Comet.
But Cromwell's speed and low profile gave an advantage over other tanks, giving the tank the element of surprise and making return fire more difficult.
Cromwell crews in North-West Europe succeeded in outflanking
the heavier and more sluggish German tanks with superior speed,
maneuverability and reliability.
The Cromwell at Antwerp has no historical information, 1947 the Cromwell tank was donated by the British to the city of Antwerp, to commemorate the liberation of the 11th British Armored Division on September 4, 1944 The tank was replaced in various places and
would be restored in 2011.
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This Tiger with Fahrgestell number 280273, was made in the Wegmann & Co, Kassel, Nordhessen, Germany in 1944.
213 was used as a command tank by SS-Obersturmführer Wilhelm Dollinger, during the final battles around La Gleize, on December 16. 213 and another Tiger 221 and a PzKw IV were defending the Werimont Farm high ground on the outskirts of La Gleize.
This Tiger 2 ran out of ammo and fuel and was abandoned, the museum claims that
Dollinger in his 213 and SS-Untersturm-führer Georg Hantusch in his 221 opened up on around 15 US tanks coming from Roanne but scored no hit. The American tanks fired back and blew off the front third of Dollingers tank's gun, but other sources say the gun was sabotaged, by the crew.
And if you look closely at the gun, you can see it's still stuck in a recoil position so it was definitely sabotaged.
After the war the Americans were helping to remove all the abandoned military equipment. Madame Jenny Geenen-Dewez bought the tank in July 1945 from the American troops that where clearing the village. "Price: a bottle of Cognac"
The imposing Tiger was moved into the main square of La Gleize and later restored by using part of an iron tube or original Panther barrel welded to the remaining part of the Tiger barrel, and a Panther muzzle brake from one of Skorzeny's disguised tanks left near Malmedy
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The M10 tank destroyer was an American tank destroyer during WW2,
it was officially called the 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage M10 and never Wolverine during the war.
It was armed with the 3-inch M7 gun on a modified Sherman tank chassis.
The M10 proved to be an excellent tank destroyer, but the open-topped turret left the crew vulnerable and a lot of crew were lost because of artillery fire, on the other hand the open-topped turret gave excellent
visibility which was valuable to a tank destroyer and it also improved reload speed.
The M10 was only produced from 1942 until 1943 and approximately 6,406 were made.
90 mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 began to arrive in Europe, and mostly replaced the M10 by the end of the war.
The plans to retain any towed battalions at all were canceled after their generally poor performance and high losses in 1944, especially during
the Battle of the Bulge.
The M10 would also see action in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
The M10 at the Cavalry Memorial in Saumur has no historical information, but was probably used by the French after the war and maybe by the
Free French Forces.
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Type 89 15 cm cannon -八九式十五糎加農砲 - Walkaround - Yushukan Museum.
Two of these howitzers that were used in these fortifications are now on display at the Yushukan WW2 museum in Tokyo.
The Type 89 and 96 Howitsers were dug into the caves and were knocked out in the fighting, they were salvaged after WW2 and the 96 was placed in front of the Veterans Club in Okinawa and in 1966 it was donated to the Yushukan museum and restored and placed outside. the 89 was placed in the collection of the Okinawa WW2 museum but was send to Yushukan in the 1970's.
The Type 89 15 cm canon was the main heavy gun of the Imperial Japanese Army's heavy artillery units and would see service from 1929 until the end of ww2.
The Type 96 was intended to replace the Type 4 150 mm howitzer, the development of the howitzer took the observations the Japanese made in WW1 in account.
but the 96 development took almost 2 decades, and it was eventually ready in 1934, but War Minister general Ugaki found it to be lacking and productions was halted until 1937
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The Panther was a German medium tank developed in 1938
out of a project to replace the Panzer III and IV called the VK 20 series
and design proposals were send in by Krupp, Daimler Benz and MAN.
The VK20 design was abandoned as the requirements
increased to a vehicle weighing
30 tonnes after he German army encountered the Soviet T-34
and KV-1 tanks.
This would lead to the VK 30.02(DB) design, which would
resemble the T-34 in hull and turret and
i would also be powered by a diesel engine.
The two designs were reviewed from January to March 1942.
The MAN design embodied a more conventional configuration,
with the transmission and drive sprocket in the front and
a centrally mounted turret and the Daimler-Benz design
was viewed to be superior to MAN's design.
But because the MAN design used an existing turret designed by
Rheinmetall-Borsig, and a mild steel prototype of the MAN design
was produced by September 1942 and, after testing at Kummersdorf,
it would be officially accepted.
In January 1943 MAN produced the first production series
Panther Ausf.D tank.
It would be called the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther until 27 February 1944,
when it was ordered that the Roman numeral "V" be deleted.
The early Panther tanks were eventually send back in April through May 1943
for a major rebuilding program, because of major breakdowns.
The first 250 Panthers were powered by a
Maybach HL 210 P30 V-12 petrol engine,
late versions would have got the Maybach HL 230 P30 V-12 petrol engine,
but these first engines were plagued with mechanical problems.
The engine was dangerously prone to overheating and
suffered from connecting rod or bearing failures.
Petrol leaks from the fuel pump and
fuel-lines were also a problem and would produced fires
in the engine compartment, this problem was never really solved and
the Panther was the actual real Ronson tank.
The Panther would see action with the Panzer Abteilung 51 on 9 January,
and then Panzer Abteilung 52 on 6 February 1943,
It would be seen as a necessary component of Operation Citadel,
but the attack was delayed several times
because of their mechanical problems,
the same problems came back in the Battle of Kursk.
Later versions of the Panther would be the A and G, and
the last version was the F which would never see any action.
Many features of the Ausf.D like the drum-shaped commander’s cupola
and the thin rectangular hull machine gun port were still
present on early production Ausf.A Panthers.
They only changed mid production and not at the same time.
Other modifications were introduced during the production run. Ausf.D
and Ausf.A tanks were also upgraded with different
features once they had
been issued to a Panzer Division when they
went to a maintenance or repair unit.
Some changes to the Early and
Late A tanks were changes to the turret and
the gun mantle on the Ausf.A turret was wider than
the one fitted to the older Ausf.D, the shape of the cast turret side
had changed to a dish shape protrusion to fit the new seal
for the gun mantle, three pistol ports were removed to make
the armour stronger and of course the round drum
like commander’s cupola, which would be replaced by a new dome
shaped cast armor commander’s cupola.
and in late November 1943 a ball mount Kugelblende with a
spherical armoured guard was introduced onto the front glacis plate.
This Panther had no recorded history and no Fahrgestell number.
It was restored with the turret from another Panther hull
with Fahrgestell number 152451, this Panther is now at
the Omaha Overlord Museum, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France.
After it was restored, it was sent to the Memorial de Caen Museum
and placed in the movie room.
It sat there for years in the dark and sometime in 2000
the tank was send back to Saumur.
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