The aforementioned fan was the only casualty in the recovery as a blade broke off as we unloaded in my yard. Due to the size of the engine, the fan sticks through the floor and is normally protected by a large armoured casting but that was missing. I did keep the broken blade and it later welded back on with [...]
4000 hours later, Adrian Barrell walk us through the restoration of his M4A4 Sherman – from range wreck to world class restoration. My Sherman, M4A4 serial number 5271, was built in September 1942 by Chrysler at the Detroit Tank Arsenal. It was the 467th built out of a total production run of 7499 M4A4s. Issued to the US Army with [...]
WWII US VEHICLE MARKINGS Part I The subject of WW2 US Army Vehicle markings has been extensively written about both in books dedicated to the subject and articles in military vehicle collectors’ magazines around the world. However, despite this fact they are still largely misunderstood or misinterpreted by vehicle owners and re-enactors alike. I hope that through this two-part study [...]
World renowned tank restoration expert, Adrian Barrell takes us through what can be a minefield of Sherman tank identification. I’ve put a bit of thought into this and it’s quite a daunting subject! With 47,000 gun tanks built in 19 distinctly different types by 11 different manufacturers, I decided against a great list of differences and thought of what will [...]
Imagine a battlefield that has been cleared of explosives and then opened to the public. This is how the Liberty Park was founded in 1945, a battlefield museum. In the fall of 1944, after the failed Operation Market Garden the Allied command wanted to widen the corridor that had been liberated in the fighting. The objective was to push the [...]
The Red Ball Express was the codename for one of World War II’s most massive logisitics operations, namely a fleet of over 6,000 trucks and trailers that delivered over 412,000 tons of ammunition, food, and fuel (and then some!) to the Allied armies in the ETO between August 25 and November 16, 1944. For the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion, which [...]
sWS – Schwerer Wehrmachtschlepper or Gerät 71, Liberty Park Overloon sWS – Schwerer Wehrmachtschlepper or Gerät 71. On 7 may 1942 Hitler ordered that a simplified version of the halftrack should be developed, to replace the 5 ton Sd.Kfz. 6. The Sd.Kfz. 6 was to be discontinued. Büssing-Nag was entrusted with the order to fill in the gap. The first [...]
Just returned from an eight day tour of the Peel Marshes area near Overloon in Holland . I joined the “Second Armored in Europe’s” trip recreating the 7th Armoreds route. We drove all the vehicles on to the ferry at Harwich for the overnight trip to the Hook of Holland. The column consisted of 2 Sherman‘s, Halftracks, GMCs, Dodges Jeeps [...]
A dive bomber fell into Lake Michigan in a training exercise in 1944. After 65 years, the unit has been rescued from the lake to be restored back to its flight condition. The plane in question was a Douglas SBD Dauntless bomber and 24 April 2009 the work was completed to retrieve from the bottom, 60 miles from Chicago, taking [...]
BMW’s R12 from the 1930s Harley-Davidson had been building motorcycles since 1906. BMW got a much later start, around 1921; but by the time World War II rolled around, BMW’s design & engineering was already world-class. In the 1930s BMW had mastered the emerging production method of electric arc welding, and were able to create incredibly strong [...]
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