I believe it was Ben Franklin who said “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
Those things were obsolete in 1938.
They are newer than some of the cars on the streets of Havana.
Well, that should make producers of movies about WW II happy.
I did not know that there were any M3’s in service anywhere. Same with the Sherman. They do have collector value.
They could probably make enough selling them to collectors to upgrade to cold-war era armor.
I would love to see one of those in working condition, just for the history sentiment.
In other news Boliva is closing a deal on the purchase of a half dozen Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Bs.
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In the movie Kelly’s Heros, there’s a scene with a column of Sherman tanks. They were all borrowed from the Yugoslavian Army, where the film was made.
I saw a show on “The History Channel” where a group was restoring a WWII Sherman.
One thing they did was rebuild the engine and also the clutch. They actually found a brand new in the box replacement clutch.
The thing which struck me is it took them several days to take the engine out. One of them commented that during WWII they routinely replaced engines in the field in two hours.
Our parents and grandparents were very capable people.
Why does Paraguay need an army in the first place ?
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Those thing are so old we didn’t train on them in the mid 60s. We used the M48 Patton.
Wasn’t the Sherman referred to by the British as the “Zippo” because of it’s penchant to light up when hit? Not meant to insult, but I remember reading that somewhere.
They should consider selling ‘em to collectors!
Thank you for the really ancient “Dino-Tanker” ping.
No matter how mighty the WWII AFV, they all fell to the humble rocket-propelled shaped-charge of the panzerschreck, the panzerfaust, and the bazooka.
Tanks attract fire from anti-tank guns, anti-tank rockets, artillery, other tanks, and aircraft. Tanks needed a crowd of infantry ahead of and around them to survive in WWII.
You often see film of Red Army soldiers riding into combat hanging on to the sides of a T-34. They needed to do that on the open Steppes for a number of reasons, but it was very often suicidal for the troops. Russian soldiers were expendable.
Allied soldiers learned early on not to ride on tanks in combat. They would walk behind them but that was extremely dangerous work as well.
To me what’s interesting is that they have M3 Stuarts and not the later M5 Stuart.