Here are a few examples of WWII wartime ads featuring US tanks or tracked vehicles that we found while digging around the internet. Click on an image to enlarge.
From the Vault: Wartime ads featuring Sherman Tanks (and other AFVs)
May 22, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Tank Museum Photo Gallery
January 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Here is a link to a nice photo gallery of some of the tanks on display at the Tank Museum at Bovington in the UK. This gallery belongs to flickr user “Arekev.”
Click on the image to go to the flickr page.
From the Editor: Photo Gallery of M551 Sheridan at New Lothrop MI
April 15, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Today we present a photo gallery of the M551 Sheridan light tank on display outside the VFW hall in New Lothrop Michigan. These photos were taken in fall of 2013. As far as we can determine, this is the only M551 on display in Michigan. There are many Sheridan light tanks on display around the country, primarily in museums or on military bases. Several are on display outside of National Guard armories. Only a few serve as monuments outside VFW or American Legion halls such as this one in New Lothrop. For those interested in finding tanks on display near where they live, please consult the Historical AFV register homepage.
From the Editor: M56 Scorpion Gallery
April 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Here is a photo gallery of the M56 Scorpion that is on display at the VFW Hall in Marcellus Michigan. These photos were taken in mid 2013. The M56 was produced in relatively small numbers in the 1950s for use by US airborne forces. It saw limited use during the Vietnam war. Despite having not been produced in great numbers, quite a few M56 vehicles survive as static displays. The M56 Wikipedia page lists sixteen Scorpions on display, although the list does not include the Marcellus vehicle.
From the Vault: Ads with tanks
March 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Here is a gallery of old magazine advertisements that feature tanks or armored vehicles. Most of these are from WWII and are ads for the company that makes components found in the vehicle. Image quality varies, but most of these are legible if people click on the image and enlarge it. All of the ads feature American vehicles except for one rather odd ad for an advertising firm which features a picture of a very early model Panzer III.
From the Editor: More Aberdeen Pictures
March 19, 2015 by 3 Comments
Semovente 47/32
Here are the rest of my old photos from Aberdeen Proving Grounds circa 1981. These were previously posted on my old blog. These vehicles are no longer located at APG. These were taken by my father with a cheap 110 film camera when he was stuck in Aberdeen for several weeks due to his job. The quality of the pictures is not great, but they do show the state of these vehicles in this time period. If you look carefully, you can see on both the Tiger tank and the Panther tank how the side of the turret has been covered over with sheet metal. The turrets on both of these vehicles had been cut away so museum visitors could see inside them back in the 1950’s
From the Editor: Tank Boulevard APG
March 18, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Heavy Tank MKVIII 1919
A couple years ago I scanned a set of old photos I had of the vehicles at Aberdeen Proving Grounds and posted them on my old blog. I have moved them over here where they will be more accessible. While the quality of these pictures is not great, they do give an idea of how the vehicles were displayed circa 1981. I’m starting with the pictures from “Tank Boulevard” which was a long row of US vehicles set up chronologically along Maryland Boulevard as one entered the base.
From the Vault: The Illustrated London News
February 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Here are three interesting pictures from old issues of the Illustrated London News. The first one is interesting in that attempts to combine the best features of US and Soviet tank design. The irony of this picture is that its in a British magazine in 1950, a period when it could could be argued that the UK possessed the best tank (or at least one of the best) in the world in the Centurion. The second picture is from 1944 and shows what the Allies thought German armor looked like at the time. It is interesting that while the Panther drawing looks fairly accurate, the other vehicles are really not close at all. The final picture is from 1943 and show the M3, M4 and Churchill tanks.
Sept. 23, 1950 and is titled: Combining Heavy Fire-Power with Speed and Maneuverability: A Drawing of a Composite Tank Incorporating the Best Features of American and Russian Designs.
Photo Gallery of former APG vehicles in storage at Anniston Army Depot
February 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Over at the AFV News Discussion board regular poster “the_shadock” posted a link to a really fantastic photo album. The album belongs to Flicker user “cmwebbjr” and features the vehicles formerly stored at Aberdeen Proving Grounds that are now in temporary storage at Anniston Army Depot.
Here is the description posted in the Gallery: In late 2012 the United States Army Museum system began moving many vehicles and weapons that had been in outdoor display at the various Army Museums around the country to temporary storage. Anniston Army Depot was one of the depots designated to receive them and consequently a parking lot there is now filled with a huge amount of history. I was able to get a camera authorization and make a photographic record of these vehicles. I understand that these vehicles will be stored here until a museum has a requirement for a particular example for a display at which time the article will be cosmetically restored and sent to them. Some of these vehicles are one of a kind experimental vehicles or captured military equipment from other countries.
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