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To: Riley
I assume you've seen the Brad Pitt movie Fury

Yes I have, if only to watch Bovington's 131 drive around and be menacing.

The actor who played the tank commander of the 105 howitzer tank that did the Infantry fire support as they were cleaning out the German holdouts with the MG in the basement window was just about a perfect double for the tank sergeant who was my first TC in Germany. I wrote both the director and Mr Pitt about that and some of the picky little details they got right and a couple they sort of messed up and added that little story. I got a couple of great letters back, no Christmas cards. BTW, the 105 Sherman from the movie is for sale.

160 posted on 12/29/2015 1:41:11 PM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: archy

Nice. There’s quite an active market for armored vehicles, as I’m sure you’re aware.

I saw a couple of clips on YT, the FPSRussia weapons guy (IIRC) in the turret of an M-18 Hellcat firing live ammo at a hillside and someone firing a privately-owned PaK-40.

Hellcat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dhSYDZy2Yc

PaK-40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7fhBm1ouSU


162 posted on 12/29/2015 1:57:16 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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