The NORMANDY TANK MUSEUM is located in Manche, on the municipality of Catz and the community of municipality of Carentan. It is ideally implanted on the historic site of the airfield A10 AIRFIELD built from June 15th till June 18th, 1944 by the 826th Battalion of Air Engineering, to receive the first devices P47 Thunderbolt, on June 19th during the [...]
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The Tank museum reports: The idea of a bus becoming an armoured fighting vehicle seems faintly ridiculous although it has happened and if we go back to those days when there was relatively little to choose between a bus and a lorry chassis, there are two very good examples involving the legendary B-Type in the early months of the First [...]
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A successful commercial design by Vickers Alongside their work for the British armed forces Vickers-Armstrongs produced military equipment for foreign buyers. Their earliest commercial tank designs failed to sell but in 1928 they produced a masterpiece. Known as the ‘six-tonner’ it was a remarkable design, with a rear-mounted, air-cooled engine driving to a gearbox and track sprockets at the front [...]
The French armaments industry was suppressed during the German occupation by revived quickly after the war. By 1946 work had begun on a range of vehicles, including the AMX-13 which first appeared in 1952. In many respects it was a revolutionary design. In attempting to fit a long gun into a short tank the French were obliged to locate the [...]
Battle Plans This year’s mock battle is to be the most ambitious attempted to date, with Museum planning a spectacle of co-ordinated vehicle movement, infantry action and pyrotechnics. The `cold war` theme will provide the backdrop to the biggest re-enactment ever undertaken in the Museum arena. But it will take numerous hours to make sure that it all comes together; [...]
The Pershing evolved from a design programme that began in 1942. It incorporated many new features when compared with earlier American tanks including torsion bar suspension and rear sprocket drive. The first of this new generation to be shipped across the Atlantic was the version T26E3, twenty of which arrived in Antwerp in February 1945 for issue to 3rd and [...]
The M24 was named for General Adna R Chaffee, chief of the US Armored Force in 1940, and was an exceptional design developed by the Cadillac Division of General Motors in Detroit. Its low profile contrasted sharply with earlier American light tanks as did the use of torsion bar suspension and the excellent 75mm gun, a modified aircraft weapon. The [...]
With less than 150 days to go until TANKFEST 2013, The Tank Museum has announced an outline programme for the weekend’s arena displays. Among the improvements made by organisers for this year’s show will be the removal of large concrete blocks from the edge of the track to improve the spectators sightlines. Discussions are also underway to secure some impressive [...]
A Russian copy of a pre-war British design In 1930 the Russians obtained 15 examples of Vickers-Armstrongs Mark E tanks, all of the twin turreted version. They then negotiated an agreement with the British firm to produce similar tanks under licence. The new tanks were built in a factory near Leningrad and deliveries of the first model began in 1931. [...]
The Tank Museum presents two letters that question the veracity of claims made in Botham and Montague’s 2012 title Catch That Tiger. There have been numerous books and documentaries written about The Tiger Tank since the first intact machine was captured in April 1943. But no other title has sought to challenge the accepted version of events as dramatically as Catch That [...]
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