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Unfortunately, the Bomb is loosing its new Home, since being moved from a public park to the front lawn of the Sherbrooke Hussars/52nd Medical Unit Armory ( Building has structural problems to its foundation to expensive to repair). The Government is closing down the Armory in a few years and moving all the Units into the Fusilliers de Sherbrooke Armory. Since all available land will be used to expand the size the Fusilliers de Sherbrooke Armory to make room for these units, there will be little room for the Bomb I am afraid.
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Dark Alley Dan
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So what will they do with her?
Dark Alley Dan
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I imagine we've all heard of the 25-pounder field gun. Are you familiar with the high-speed/low-drag jungle fightin' version, the "Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short"?
Here's the stock model:
And the shortened, lightened, slimmer-by-700-pounds version:
Here's the stock model:
And the shortened, lightened, slimmer-by-700-pounds version:
Well, if you have nothing to offer, mate, might as well put you on my ignore list. Been a pleasure not knowing you. Have a life.
...aaaaaaaaaand pictures!
Hitler Kinder? Pre-school for Hitler Jugend.
Dark Alley Dan
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Prototype high mobility recce corps.
Looked good on paper, less so in reality.
Looked good on paper, less so in reality.
Period uniforms, restored steam tractors (and a pusher
), a water tanker, and did you see that driver on the first one trying to make that 90 degree turn in the first minute?? Now THAT is what you call Armstrong steering!!!!
You would hope that community pride would kick in in Sherbrooke and that action would be taken to keep the tank and preserve it in a place of honor. This is what was done in London, ON with the First Hussars Sherman, named Holy Roller. Interestingly, Holy Roller appears to be a twin of Bomb and is also a WW2 veteran which was brought home. Both look like early M4A2 diesel variants with the early direct vision slots for driver and bow gunner and the early type of gun mantlet.
Towns and cities are always eager to pee away lots of tax dollars for a sports arena or a casino, so it shouldn`t be too hard to find a few thousand dollars for a suitable preservation and memorial project.
Kampfhamster
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Stumbled over an older video clip yesterday.
Panzerkinder - Children of Israel
This was taken at the artillery school in Switzerland in 2004.
The clip was taken from company 2. I was in company 4, so I know the officers and sergeants in the clip personally.
At the time I served as a "sergeant on a limited contract", which means that I had just finished my mandatory time, done my NCO-school and was in fact one of the few professional full time soldiers of the Swiss Army.
A new concept they tried out at the time. Turned out, the Swiss Army just doesn't know what to do with full time soldiers. The army is quite unfamiliar with the concept.
I'm carried away. The clip was taken in 2004, just months after the "Army XXI" concept, during which the whole army was restructured. It did suck, big times.
One of the recruits was an avid amateur movie maker. The higher up didn't like it much and tried to keep it from being spread, which of course didn't work.
Quite a bit of the equipment shown is outdated now, the M113 is being phased out, at least in the mortar variant. We no longer have the steel helmets and a few other things.
Panzerkinder - Children of Israel
This was taken at the artillery school in Switzerland in 2004.
The clip was taken from company 2. I was in company 4, so I know the officers and sergeants in the clip personally.
At the time I served as a "sergeant on a limited contract", which means that I had just finished my mandatory time, done my NCO-school and was in fact one of the few professional full time soldiers of the Swiss Army.
A new concept they tried out at the time. Turned out, the Swiss Army just doesn't know what to do with full time soldiers. The army is quite unfamiliar with the concept.
I'm carried away. The clip was taken in 2004, just months after the "Army XXI" concept, during which the whole army was restructured. It did suck, big times.
One of the recruits was an avid amateur movie maker. The higher up didn't like it much and tried to keep it from being spread, which of course didn't work.
Quite a bit of the equipment shown is outdated now, the M113 is being phased out, at least in the mortar variant. We no longer have the steel helmets and a few other things.
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Wow...A real life denier. It thought you guys were just made up like the boogie man.
This is my Grandfathers wedding in London just before he deployed over to Europe as a motorcycle Dispatch Rider>
Bad, bad, bad call about Bomb and the CWM. The CWM has enough Shermans on display and it would probably just be shoved into storage or jammed into some corner of the Gallery. I hope it stays in Sherbrooke, gets pampered, and a bunch of minor things corrected then displayed in a respectful and secure setting.
http://4.bp.########.com/-9YOBozGvTow/VVAFhcUjDyI/AAAAAAAAGGU/0BcGi_0RI3U/s1600/Holyroller1.jpg
HOLY ROLLER, note the pock marks in the armour. I am not a big fan of plaques mounted on the vehicles myself (sort of looks like an official "tag") and think Sherbrooke did things right
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I agree about the plaques. The First Hussars DD Sherman at Courseulles sur Mer in Normandy is festooned with plaques from every Tom #### and Harry which detracts from the overall idea.
And for some reason I will never understand we (Canada) LOVE painting monument guns, tanks and vehicles the most bizarre shades of green imaginable or painting it in some colour it never was in the first place (like a certain East German T72 out west or any the Borden East German tanks and their groovy cam paint jobs. I honestly take a second look when I spot one done half ways correct.
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