Hello everyone,
Czech player jrt5 was in Normandy last week. He took a trip through the countryside to the beaches and ended up in the “movie camp” at Sainte-Mère-Église. And there, he took a picture of the M4A2 “Fury” Sherman from the upcoming movie. He was kind enough to provide those (and other) photos for publication, thank you!
The Fury (and its camp)
FT-17 from Compiégne
Centaur from the Pegasus Bridge Museum (Royal Marine Support group, thanks Listy)
M7 Priest and Stuart from a bunker in Villerville
Churchill AVRE (not that far from Villerville)
Sexton, Sherman and the M10 – Omaha Beach Museum
Wait what is an Easy 8 doing in normandy?
What are early tracks doing on the front? Not like they could replace them.
Didn’t you read the text? That’s the M4E2 “Fury” Sherman, which is going to be used for the upcoming movie: Fury. My guess is that they are recording parts of it on the Normandy beaches, and then they decided to show it off at the event :)
Except it’s wrong. It’s an M4A3E8, featuring the T23 turret, long 76mm (as opposed to the usual stubby 75mm), and HVSS suspension instead of VVSS (as seen on the other Sherman later in the post).
It’s for a movie. Many movies kind of ignore historical accuracy.
I have a feeling that this Cromwell is actually a Centaur IV.
Yep
Hi Stalker, how do I send you pictures from tanks? As I have quite a few, it could be interesting to send them to you. :)
The museum was closed for a ceremony by the time we were there so the “Cromwell” was just my guess. The picture was taken from behind the fence.
Overlord museum….
hes that famous?
1. FT-17 has some funny tracks.
2. Dat AVRE derp… O.O
Best derp i hope when they add it it’s just a british KV-2 :)
It’s a spigot mortar and it’s useless against tanks (under 100m firing range and almost no armor penetration)
Wasn’t the mortar round HEAT/shaped charge?
The 290mm mortar was used to level fortifications, had to be loaded externaly by the co-driver (the turret had to be traversed over his hatch), and fired 40 lb warhead, with 28 pounds of high explosives.
It was the post war AVRE that mounted 165mm demolition gun that fired (IIRC 30kg) HESH round
For the anecdote: the Centaur is the same that appeared on WoT news page when “Tank of the month” featured the Cromwell. It has been moved since for restauration, it was supposed to be put back in place on June 6th ; though I did not pass close by since.
http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/17/tank-month-cromwell/
Plus, the trackless Priest and the M3 are actually at the Ouistreham Museum, not in Villerville.
Also, the AVRE Churchill is precisely in Lion sur Mer.
Otherwise, nice photos!
While I’m at it, some others I took myself (poor quality, but it’s from my phone, sorry in advance) at Bayeux Memorial Museum:
-Hetzer
• http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/741651IMG20140610170221.jpg
• http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/135210IMG20140610170303.jpg
-Churchill Crocodile
• http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/240361IMG20140610170705.jpg
-Wolverine
• http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/223418IMG20140610170719.jpg
-M4 Sherman
• http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/468752IMG20140610170453.jpg
Oh, the Grand Bunker is in Ouistreham, you are right. So many names in short time :)
http://www.europebattlefieldstours.com/SwordSector/SwordSector4.html
No problem, man. But since I live there (and pass by these tanks quite often while doing bicycle rides), I thought I would correct the little mistake. I hope you enjoyed your vacations among us!
Yes I did! We visited all the important places. The celebrations were great and there were so many fans in historical uniforms on tanks, trucks and jeeps. I even saw a Spitfire flying in formation with Eurofighter. And Lancaster with Spitfire and there were four Hercules flying low along the coast.
That armored car is the M8 Greyhound and that AA halftrack is the M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage