Had the chance to stop in and see a unique little museum when in Normandy that has a few larger artifacts on display. Seems there is a museum about every hundred meters there and one can only look at so many display cases of rusty spoons or dug up Thompsons/Stens/MP40s . The original owner just plucked tanks (and much more) up out of the water, shot then with some sort of varnish and set them atop rocks. Kind of cool and certainly different.
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^Duplex Drive Sherman recovered off Omaha Beach
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The DD Sherman even has the remains of the rubber and canvas inflation system for the screen to allow it to swim ashore. Americans where suspect of the whole idea and paid the price by not employing them properly to get them on land and into the fight.
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^ Priest SPG found THREE miles off shore at the sea floor. Honest to god, actual D-Day vehicles of that there is no doubt.
^Duplex Drive Sherman recovered off Omaha Beach
The DD Sherman even has the remains of the rubber and canvas inflation system for the screen to allow it to swim ashore. Americans where suspect of the whole idea and paid the price by not employing them properly to get them on land and into the fight.
^ Priest SPG found THREE miles off shore at the sea floor. Honest to god, actual D-Day vehicles of that there is no doubt.
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