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To: BlueLancer

Your pic shows an M4 Sherman. the “Haunted Tank” was an M3 “Stuart” tank, hence the tie in with the ghost of the Confederate cavalry commander JEB Stuart.


19 posted on 09/17/2007 7:01:31 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: DMZFrank
Originally that was true, but, in the later issues, they moved up to the M-4. Also, another reason for the assignment was the name of the tank commander, SGT .. later LT .. Jeb Stuart. I always preferred the little Stuart tank myself, but it did change in later comics.
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As the Haunted Tank fights from Africa to the European Theater of Operations, the crew goes through several M3 tanks. Arch is killed saving them from an exploding German tank (G.I. Combat #162) and is replaced by Gus Gray, a soldier the crew had met just days earlier. Later in the war, Slim is also killed in action and is replaced by the older veteran Bill Craig, (G.I. Combat #244), whose son Eddie also joins the crew a few issues later (G.I. Combat #251), taking over the loader's position and allowing Gus to act as a second gunner.

Following a disastrous mission (based on the Task Force Baum incident), the crew of the Haunted Tank spend time in a German prisoner of war camp. Finding a "tank graveyard", they use the wreckage and spare parts to build themselves a new tank, the "Jigsaw Tank", and fight their way back to the Allied lines.

The Jigsaw Tank is eventually replaced by an M4 Sherman tank that sees them through to the end of the war. Despite a story that involves the ghost of General William T. Sherman being assigned to the tank once the crew switches to the Sherman, General Stuart's ghost continues to watch over the crew till war's end.

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20 posted on 09/18/2007 3:27:59 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Der Elite Møøsënspåånkængrüppen ØberKømmändø (EMØØK))
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