I could spend all day with a comic book, `Haunted Tank (?)', many, many years ago.
Posted on 12/30/2015 9:35:29 AM PST by Snickering Hound
The M3 Stuart light tank and M4 Sherman main battle tank, both nearly 75 years old, appear to be going back into service with the Paraguayan Army as operational trainers.
Although the Paraguayan Army made a brief use of Italian Ansaldo CV33s, the M3 and M3A1s were its first real tanks. A total of 15 M3s were delivered in 1970 in three successive lots as donations from neighbouring Brazil. Paraguay's Stuart tanks first served with Cavalry Regiment N°3 (Regimiento de CaballerÃa N°3: RC3), part of 1st Cavalry Division (División de Caballeria 1: DC1), headquartered at Campo Grande near Paraguay's capital, Asuncion.
Since then - and aside from their part in the 1989 coup d'état that ousted General Alfredo Stroessner, then President of Paraguay - M3s have occasionally participated in the country's 15 May military parade in Asuncion. For the most part the tanks were mainly out of action, having been stored following a threatened army coup in 1996, until the last several years in which efforts have been made to get a portion of the fleet back in operational condition.
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To frighten Uruguay?
M4s?? In ‘38 M4s would have dominated every other tank in the world.
+1 LMAO!!!
Cool!
History lesson:
In 1864 Paraguay fought against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, and was overwhelmingly defeated in 1870 after five years of the bloodiest war in South America. William D. Rubinstein wrote: "The normal estimate is that of a Paraguayan population of somewhere between 450,000 and 900,000, only 220,000 survived the war, of whom only 28,000 were adult males." Paraguay also suffered extensive territorial losses to Brazil and Argentina.
Next question?
Paraguay is the bump on the butt of South America.
This doesn’t explain why they bothered to invade.
There is virtually nothing there.
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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.
Stuart beats AK47
They should consider selling ‘em to collectors!
What!?>! No accordions? NO KOLO?!?! Cheu ti'!
The best time to have a tank is when the other guy does not. Under those circumstances, any tank will work.
These days, to stage military coups and then to defend against counter-coups.
I could spend all day with a comic book, `Haunted Tank (?)', many, many years ago.
Fear of being over run by yankee banditos chased out of Boliva?
IIRC, there were Sherman vehicles fitted with flamethrower barrels and these were nicknamed “Zippos”. Used to great effect in Okinawa.
In “Patton”, M-3’s were called “Purple Heart Boxes”.
Ronsons?
Do we still sell them parts for these things?
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