Flakpanzer Restoration

I'm glad they are restoring it.

That being said, was the camo pic the proposed "future" camo scheme?

If so, they better find a way to preserve that original artwork done by the soldiers on the inside of the tank.
 
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Neat. That tank is very near to me. I might have to look into this.

The artwork to preserve is on the inside. The outside has been repainted that horrible blue. All the German stuff at the site is the same blue. Dunkelgelb would have been so much better. Hopefully they will just paint it that.
 
CanadianAR said:
Neat. That tank is very near to me. I might have to look into this.

The artwork to preserve is on the inside. The outside has been repainted that horrible blue. All the German stuff at the site is the same blue. Dunkelgelb would have been so much better. Hopefully they will just paint it that.
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Cool. Yeah I like the proposed camo pic.

Something like this would be epic...

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Just happened to read Mowat's And no birds Sang, this week. :d Account of his war time experience in Italy. Some scary #### in there.

Grizz
 
Grizzly Adams said:
Just happened to read Mowat's And no birds Sang, this week. :d Account of his war time experience in Italy. Some scary #### in there. Grizz
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One of the best autobiographical accounts of what it was like to be one of the "D-Day Dodgers" fighting up the Italian Boot. Mowat pulled no punches about how close he came to losing it, crediting his Sgt. Major with boosting his morale and getting him back in line.

I'm currently reading "Gauntlet To Overlord" by war correspondent Ross Munro. He was imbedded in the Italian Campaign as well as during the D-Day landing and subsequent
invasion into Germany. His descriptions of what the infantry endured on both sides gives a different perspective than the official accounts.
 
Steiner said:
Didn't Farley Mowat bring back a whole slew of German military vehicles to be preserved, but they were not appreciated in that post war era, and most sent to scrap?
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I have a list somewhere of the Mowatt bringbacks. A number of them have found their way to the RCA Museum here in Shilo. A few of them which were in lesser condition were scrapped from Shilo in the 70s....I recently negotiated the sale of 2 of them to the US: a Flakveirling and a flak38. The buyer was very happy to find them available in North America.

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A soldier from my home town is mentioned in that book. Keith Close , killed later at the battle of Moro River. A neighbour who knew him said he was a little guy always looking for a scrap; guess he found one.
I remember:
CPL Keith Close
Morse, Saskatchewan
A lake up north is named after him.
 
I'm local to this and a heavy duty mechanic, so I emailed some people, and I am going to be working on this project. Im super excited to have the chance!
 
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