Tanks preserved as monuments

My own personal web http://polar123.fm.interia.pl/ is about tanks, planes, guns and others military stuff preserved as monuments or advertising. I’m looking for good pic this equipment. I was create database almost all tanks preserved in Poland. Now I wish create databese tanks preserved on other countries.

Tanks in Poland preserved as monument
http://polar123.fm.interia.pl/czolgip.html

and few photos from Poland:

Drawsko Pomorskie


Elblag


Gdansk-Westerplatte

Oh! We have something like that in Vermont of an old Sherman Tank for a Veterans Home…

I’ll be sure to get a photo!

Hehe, what hapen with the second, that T-34 is stuck in the 1960s. :smiley:

Sherman with 105mm gun:

LOL I love that 2nd one. That would be awsome to see coming flying at your position :stuck_out_tongue:

That is really cool. I have a Sherman from World War 2 in the city I live in. I will try to get a picture of it. When you drive by it, it is awesome.

Sorry but this sherman is from museum.
For me interestig are only tanks, planes guns preserved as “monument”

Someday I’ll get a digital camera, and go to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland…

For me interestig are only tanks, planes guns preserved as “monument”

I hope that this pictures will work for you. Sherman Firefly displayed as a monument for the fallen of the 3th Airborne Artillery Regiment in the 1982 war, City of Cordoba Argentina.

This is a Sherman DD preserved for a memorial in UK.

It was recovered from the Sea and mounted as a monument to the many Americans who lost their lives “invading” England.

The deaths were caused during a massive Amphibious landing exercise, when several of the landing craft were attacked by S boats. Ex Tiger involved the moving of some 3000 people to leave their homes, and resulted 900+ casualties. The attack didn’t stop the exercise.

Most casualties were caused by young inexperienced men, putting life preservers on the wrong way, during the panic. This caused them to flip headfirst in to the water when trying to swim, and the weight of the packs drowned them.

A great area of Slapton Sands were evacuated for the attack, and several houses including a hotle used for target practice. Theis was because the area looked just like Utah and Omaha beaches where the Amercias were going tobe attacking.

More here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Tiger

Do you have any information on this Firefly at all? The front is very unusual in that it looks like a very early Sherman but the Britsh Fireflys were all converted from a much later version. Thanks

In here you can found more information.

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/argentina/argentina.html

He,he, in the link that I provide in my earlier post I ve found an old picture of the tank I am sitting, note a tactical number wich has been overpainted when this tank-monument was restored.

Thanks for that, doesnt give much more information assume its an export modification post war. Why are they using it as a monument to the Falklands war? I know the Argentinians didnt have much in the way of modern armour (we only captured a few French Panards there if my memory serves me right) but these are ancient.

Does anyone know what happened to the Russian memorial in West Berlin it was just insde the bit where the Brandanburg Gate is? It was one of the only places in 1980 that Russian soldiers were allowed in the western sector. 2 T34s standing proud and the duty rumour was that the crews were still inside!

It is a western propaganda lies! The crews are not inside! Well only during day time. At night they come out and wonder around wiht red banners…

Whould the links like these ones be of any interest to you?

http://artofwar.ru/n/negorjuj_i_w/text_0480.shtml

http://rgantd.ru/vzal/korolev/pics/014_004.jpg

http://www.veneva.ru/images/zenitka.jpg

http://history.ntagil.ru/images/413.jpg

http://www.slavday.samreg.ru/builder/photos/slaveday/c_6309/tn_2354.JPEG

Why are they using it as a monument to the Falklands war?

No idea, I guess because there was a lot of deactivated Shermans. The most powerful tank at 1982 was the TAM, but the army didnt deployed any in the islands.

Whould the links like these ones be of any interest to you?

They would.

Panzerknacker, I was asking Polar, but you are very welcome too! :slight_smile:

Cracking links, whats the gun-boat in the first? Whats the aeroplane in the last? Looks like a Sturmovik but my stupid computer won’t show it any bigger. Sorry for not speakiing Russian.

Yes this linnka are great.
Did you could tell me where this stuff is ?