From: Geoff Winnington-Ball (gwball@sympatico.ca)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 07:07:31 PDT
Morning all,
Here's a poser for you then... in the movie THE LONGEST DAY,
there's a brief scene on the British beach during which a DD
Sherman roars by in the background with its flotation canvas
collapsed & stowed. I honestly can't remember what model of Sherman
that was, and I'm at work so I can't put on the video to see...
:-)
Any idea which tank that was, was it original, did it survive,
and could it be your No. 5 or No. 7?
Geoff
Regards,
Geoff Winnington-Ball
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>--- Original Message ---
>From: Hanno Spoelstra <HL.Spoelstra@inter.NL.net>
>
>There are seven known Sherman DD tanks on public display:
...
...
...
...
>Numbers 1), 2) and 3) were lost during Normandy landings and
number 4) was
>lost while training for the Normandy landings off the English
coast.
>Number 5) is the most complete example, it is at least externally
restored
>and kept under cover.
>Numbers 6) is a late war version which was not used operationally.
>Number 7) could be a film prop, I do not know of any DDs modified
from
>M4A1(76)W Shermans.
>The one in Italy is number eight and I hope it will be put on
public display
>too.
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