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havoc said:
The second one looks very like a 'shop to me. Chassis is a US early-WW2 M3 (Grant/Lee), but they had one turret and one side-mounted sponson.
It's definitely a photoshop. By the time you work out how much space the gun breaches and mounting hardware would take up, there'd be no room for any crew, let alone any ammunition for all them guns to fire.The lowest gun is where the drive shafts to the final drives would run, and the two above it seem to have entirely replaced the driver's compartment.
edit to add:
Both the Grant (L) and Lee (R) are pictured - only real difference was the Grant was mounted with a British pattern turret, while the Lee had the original US pattern turret
Edited by yellowjack on Saturday 22 March 23:17
I'm not very good at this. Perhaps I would be better posting this tank instead 
yellowjack said:
Both the Grant (L) and Lee (R) are pictured - only real difference was the Grant was mounted with a British pattern turret, while the Lee had the original US pattern turret
Edited by yellowjack on Saturday 22 March 23:17
irocfan said:
and thanks to a very high silhouette were easy pickings... HOWEVER they were produced in sufficient numbers and were such an improvement over what had come before that they did the job
Was it a Grant or a Lee that Humphrey Bogart commanded in the WW2 film "Sahara" ? Cracking film.
nicanary said:
Was it a Grant or a Lee that Humphrey Bogart commanded in the WW2 film "Sahara" ? Cracking film.
Apparently "Lulubelle" was indeed an M3 Lee in the 1943 propaganda piece "Sahara".Montgomery also used a Grant, with a dummy gun in the turret and extra radio equipment, from which to observe and direct his desert campaign and into Sicily and Italy.
His tank is usually on display in the Atrium of the IWM Lambeth, but it's currently been moved to hangar 5 at the Duxford site while redevelopment work takes place in London... http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.ph...
yellowjack said:
Apparently "Lulubelle" was indeed an M3 Lee in the 1943 propaganda piece "Sahara".
Montgomery also used a Grant, with a dummy gun in the turret and extra radio equipment, from which to observe and direct his desert campaign and into Sicily and Italy.
His tank is usually on display in the Atrium of the IWM Lambeth, but it's currently been moved to hangar 5 at the Duxford site while redevelopment work takes place in London... http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.ph...
Thanks. Couldn't be bothered to look it up myself. You're right that it was a 100% propaganda film, but then they all were in those days. So Bogart's accumulated sidekicks had the usual gung-ho Yanks, the stiff upper-lip Brit, the cheerful cockney Brit, the friendly Frenchie, the courageous token "black" who lays down his life for others, the rescued Italian foe who cares for his family etc. - what? stereotypes? Hollywood?Montgomery also used a Grant, with a dummy gun in the turret and extra radio equipment, from which to observe and direct his desert campaign and into Sicily and Italy.
His tank is usually on display in the Atrium of the IWM Lambeth, but it's currently been moved to hangar 5 at the Duxford site while redevelopment work takes place in London... http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.ph...
Me? I love these old movies.
Veeayt said:
This, however, is not photoshop
Shame it was awful. The T35 was like a 1930's vision of the future multi turreted tanks you see in Terminator's flashforward visions. Great idea, but we didn't have the technology back then.The Trubia was another interesting concept from the Spanish which had two turrets, one on top of the other!
Fabric said:
Alfanatic said:
irocfan said:
'twas a big old girl!
That must have been the fatal photoshoot? I think all those jets only flew in formation the once.
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