From: Joseph Lombardi (lombardi@star.net)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 07:12:26 PDT
Gentlemen,
There is a Sherman tank on display at Patten Park in Hamilton
Massachusetts.
Best regards,
Joe Lombardi
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hanno Spoelstra" <HL.Spoelstra@inter.NL.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Sherman DD recovery in Italy
> >At 13.33 20/05/02 +0200, Raimondo wrote:
> >>The TV also said that this tank "is very rare (????) and only two are in
> >>existence: one is in France and another in the U.K."!!!! Any comment?
>
>
> Raimundo,
>
> There are seven known Sherman DD tanks on public display:
>
> 1) M4A1 DD; 2) M4A1(75) DD; Sherman DD turret: Musée Des Epaves
> Sous-Marines, COMMES (near Port-en-Bessin), France.
>
> 3) M4A4 DD / Sherman V DD: Place 6 Juin, COURSEULLES-SUR-MER, France.
>
> 4) M4A1(75) DD: Slapton Beach, TORCROSS, Devon, Great Britain.
>
> 5) M4A2 DD / Sherman III DD: The Tank Museum, BOVINGTON CAMP, Wareham,
> Dorset, Great Britain.
>
> 6) M4A2(76)W HVSS DD III: Ordnance Museum, ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD,
USA.
>
> 7) M4A1(76)W DD: Musée des Blindes, SAUMUR, France.
>
> 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.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Hanno Spoelstra
>
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