A few of Base Bordens Tanks

There was a Whipped Tank inside one of the buildings-that was my favorite tank there.
Much more interesting to me was preserved WW1 hangar with Avro 504 G-CYCK in it.First time i saw it I spend about 2 hours there just gawking at details of it.
Great machine.
 
Another place to see tanks is the Tank museum in Oshawa next to the airport. Every second saturday is a tank demo day. Took the kids there last month.
 
Great photos Andrew!

I've been half waiting for an appropriate time to post this photo. My grandfather (on my mother's side) joined the US Army while working in Germany at the end of WWII. I forget what unit/regiment he was part of, but he apparently was a guard for German prisoners after the war, at both Dachau and Nuremburg.

He told me several years ago that at the end of the war, there was Nazi stuff absolutely everywhere and had he known that I'd be into this kind of stuff, he'd have saved a lot of it for me, lol.... Oh well. At least I have some photos. :) I've been meaning to compile and scan some of my grandparents' WWII photo collection; on my dad's side, my grandfather was in the Polish army under British command and fought in North Africa and Italy including Monte Cassino, and my grandmother (also Polish) was an RAF switchboard operator.

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AdamP said:
Great photos Andrew!

I've been half waiting for an appropriate time to post this photo. My grandfather (on my mother's side) joined the US Army while working in Germany at the end of WWII. I forget what unit/regiment he was part of, but he apparently was a guard for German prisoners after the war, at both Dachau and Nuremburg.

He told me several years ago that at the end of the war, there was Nazi stuff absolutely everywhere and had he known that I'd be into this kind of stuff, he'd have saved a lot of it for me, lol.... Oh well. At least I have some photos. :) I've been meaning to compile and scan some of my grandparents' WWII photo collection; on my dad's side, my grandfather was in the Polish army under British command and fought in North Africa and Italy including Monte Cassino, and my grandmother (also Polish) was an RAF switchboard operator.

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epic Adam, maybe i can see some next time I'm up that way. Wish i had half that history in my family.
 
At the Military College in St-jean-sur-richelieu Quebec ( just out side of Montreal )there is a good selection of Canadian tanks allso displayed in frount of buildings. Centurian ,Grizzlies And Canadian Sherman's. I did the tank crawl a couple years back Bordan,Oshawa and Ottawa. Great thing about tanks is you can touch them and no body gets excited! Enjoyed looking for battle damage and the scars from use. Still have a hard time imagine how the used the escape hatch under hull on the Sherman's.
 
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