Here's a pic of a Sherman in a town in Normandy in 2002. They have lots of great WWII hardware in tiny local museums around there.

Bill

Sometimes I forget just how big tanks are until I see a pic of a person standing next to one. And it's a medium too.

Perry

There a similar monuments to the war all over Europe. In Nymegen Holland, there's still the German 88 that raised hell with everyone, sitting in the same position (at least in 1969 it was there) and a couple Tigers in various locations. Tigers, a couple KTs and Shermans are all over Germany. Some are kept up and maintained, wheras some are left as they were and are rotting away.

Is it me or is that picture backwards and we are actually looking at the RHSof the Sherman. The reason I ask is because Iam working on a Sherman and any picture I can see clearly of that period is a great help to me.

With the the commanders hatch as it is shown, I would say that the picture is reversed.

Yes it is, the tools are on the wrong side as well.

Aw c'mon, , they were just disguising an M-24.[X(]

switched it for ya

Yes, I noticed some other pics on that CD reversed by the developer. One small museum I went to had some main guns separate from their tanks. A Panther long 75 and a Tiger 88 were among them, I think,and showed signs of a violent end.

Bill

The 88 is still on the farm where it last saw action there has only ever been 2 Tiger’s a Tiger I in France and a Tiger II in Belgium again Belgium has 2 Panther G Holland a Panther D there are 8-10 Shermans in Belgium and a few more in Luxemburg and France, as far as I know there are no tanks left as monuments in Germany in fact finding anything to do with the war is difficult except in the former East where you will find an abundance supply of T34’s and a few KV’s, these tanks are not everywhere some are several hours or days apart.

I have noted where a lot of war material has been removed. Border Belle, a Sherman which saw action at Fulda at the end of the war, was on a circle outside the main gate at Downs barracks...I was in Fulda a couple years ago and the Kaserne is now a government subsidised housing complex, the Gypsy village is gone and Border Bell is no longer there. I wonder what happened to it....would hate to see it cut up and I hope it went to a museum or someone to restore it. When I was in Arnem and Nymegen, I saw the 88 but was told that there were a couple of Tigers outside of town...I did not see them. History channel ran a segment a while ago where it showed a KT and a Sherman which had shot each other up pretty bad...maybe in Belgium. They seem to have more stuff sitting around. When I was there in 68 to get a steering gear sector box for my 57 Chevy, a salvage lot on the Luxembourg border was chock full of armor and an unbelievable amount of tracks. German about a half of a Pz IV, , US and tons of German halftrack parts. A German told me once, when I commented on the law against owning military vehicles, that "we lost 2 world wars...we just want to forget it" Lots of younger Germans are really PO'd at seeing every country around them with privately owned armored vehicles and they can't have any.