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A little Bondo and WD-40 and they’ll be good as new. Most of those scratches will buff right out.
Be sure to visit the General George S. Patton Memorial Museum if you’re ever between LA & Phoenix. The Museum was established to honor the late General George S. Patton and the thousands of men who served with him at the Desert Training Center and overseas. The museum is located off Interstate 10, about 30 miles east of Indio at Chiriaco Summit, which was the entrance to Camp Young, command post for the Desert Training Center during World War II. There’s a yard full of old tanks, slowly rusting away like the ones shown here.
Seems like a lot of scrap steel waiting to be smelted. Are they too far out in the boonies for cost-effective shipping?
Maybe, turn the Chinese or Japanese loose and they’d have the place cleaned out in no time.
Old story I read years ago: The British still keep the HMS Prince of Wales in commission (Sunk off Malaya in ‘41 with a great loss of life). (Maybe the same with the Repulse.) I think it is once a year they send a diver down to replace the Union Jack “flying” from it’s mast. Before they started this ritual, back when the Japanese were going EVERYWHERE, cleaning up the leftover scrap, the Japanese went after the POW and when the Brits got their back up, the Japanese, in effect, said, “Wha? Wha?” as if they couldn’t make the connection between a memorial and scrap.
Pretty cool; thanks for the link!
I thought for a moment that the one in the top photo was a Panther, but it’s just a T-34.
Good post. Reminds me of when I drove by TACOM, in Warren, MI. every day on my way to work at Chrysler. BTW, the Sherman tank was built by Chrysler, and the modern day tanks are built by General Dynamics, in and around Sterling Heights, MI. They didn’t call Detroit the arsenal of democracy for nothing. I guess it’s a pride thing, as in “you want to mess with us? Bring it on ‘cause we build all of the best bad-ass toys to take you out”.
>> This really does look like a cemetery, with the half-interred remains all too visible.
The pictures are cool.
The verbiage accompanying them is idiotic crap.
e.g. “This really does look like a cemetery, with the half-interred remains all too visible.”
Really? When were YOU last in a cemetary with the half-interred remains visible?
You have to wonder why the Chinese are buying all of our scrap metal when they have so much so close to them.
And I realize that the site is not professional, but does no one know how to write anymore?
"[T]heir hatches all but sealed from lack of use"—this means the opposite of what they think it means. They meant, "Their hatch seals are all but gone from lack of use."
"This really does look like a cemetery, with the half-interred remains all too visible." Yes, I remember at the last funeral I attended, how impressed I was that they left the casket half-buried.