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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Tyrannis on November 28, 2010, 04:50:32 AM
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hey guys, i came across this skin for the sherman a couple months ago while searching for something else, and are wondering some things.
does anyone know the history behind this sherman?
is it a ww2 sherman or israli?
and if it is ww2, can it be added? would be an amazing skin which i would deff choose :pray
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The people in the tank don't look american, more like japs? so which makes me think its a captured tank.
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This could be a Korean war pic too.
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its not WW2 and those arent japs. the (76W) wasnt used in the pacific. it was built to take on tigers, but that M4A3E8 is from the korean war.
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hm, anyone have a clue as to what sherman this exackly is? i rly like the paint scheme
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hm, anyone have a clue as to what sherman this exackly is? i rly like the paint scheme
It's an Easy-Eight (which we don't have) from the Korean War (which we can't have skins from).
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Addidtional info- thats the 73rd Tank Battalion, much more well known for their tiger-marked M-26 Pershings than their Shermans, but they used both, as well as Chaffees. Some sources say the 89th TB, but they painted their with red devil faces, not tigers.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/M1tankKoreaHanriver1951.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/M4a3e8_1.jpg)
(http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/imgs/m4sherman.jpg)
(http://www.diecasts.biz/images/Armour/Admiral/HG3602.jpg)
(http://www.multitoysgame.com/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/HobbyMaster_HG3704_M46_Patton_73rd_Tank_Battalion_(C)_Company_Han_River,_February_1951.jpg)
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Have seen that one at the Patton museum. Great museum for anyone near Kentucky.
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the 442nd was a all japense american squad during WWII
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Have seen that one at the Patton museum. Great museum for anyone near Kentucky.
Was a great museum. They have removed all of the tanks and that portion of the museum closed in September. The entire tank collection is being trucked down to Georgia where in a few years a new museum will be built for Tanks and Cavalry, right next door to an Infantry Museum. The base relocation and closing program is to blame. They are consolidating all training.
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the 442nd was a all japense american squad during WWII
Which has what to do with this discussion? And it was a Regiment, not a 'squad'.
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Which has what to do with this discussion? And it was a Regiment, not a 'squad'.
someone said japs so it was possible for japs to have shermans. just it was are japs and not jap japs
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the 442nd was a all japense american squad during WWII
Thanks :D
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Thanks :D
yup
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Have seen that one at the Patton museum. Great museum for anyone near Kentucky.
i went there back in 2006 but dont remember seeing this paintjob on any of the shermans, i was deeply disapointed tho with how much graffiti was spraypainted on these historic tanks by immature kids. some were even stupid enough to write there full names on the side of some of them. i was jobshadowing an apache pilot for a school project
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When I was at Knox in the late '90's, one of the Shermans they had on static display away from the museum had that paintjob. Used to love just wandering around and seeing what I'd find at intersections and in front of buildings, one hell of a collection.
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Was a great museum. They have removed all of the tanks and that portion of the museum closed in September. The entire tank collection is being trucked down to Georgia where in a few years a new museum will be built for Tanks and Cavalry, right next door to an Infantry Museum. The base relocation and closing program is to blame. They are consolidating all training.
Aww went to high school at Fort Knox and loved going to the museum in the summer. Such a terrible loss. I cant believe people would spray paint the tanks that is weak.
When I was at Knox in the late '90's, one of the Shermans they had on static display away from the museum had that paintjob. Used to love just wandering around and seeing what I'd find at intersections and in front of buildings, one hell of a collection.
Coming from Louisville to Fort Knox I always though it was awesome to pass those two tanks up on pedestals on either side of the highway.
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Aww went to high school at Fort Knox and loved going to the museum in the summer. Such a terrible loss. I cant believe people would spray paint the tanks that is weak. Coming from Louisville to Fort Knox I always though it was awesome to pass those two tanks up on pedestals on either side of the highway.
you mean these two? (took these 2 as a quick last-minute pic, didnt see them the first pass lol)
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when i went there 4 yrs ago i had bad eyesight and no classes, so it was hard for me to see paintjobs/etc on the tanks from a distance, but i had no trouble finding this bad boy :O
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...sorry for the triple post guys, but i just facepalmed myself.
i enlarged my sherman pick and examined it a little more aand realised...
that looks like one of the tiger-marked M-26 Pershings sitting right next to that sherman.
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when i went there 4 yrs ago i had bad eyesight and no classes, so it was hard for me to see paintjobs/etc on the tanks from a distance, but i had no trouble finding this bad boy :O
bottom one is the T28 super tank :D surprised they actually found one
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well, why we are on this topic! i put up a post on the wishlist thread wishing for help :devil :pray
I was watching weaponology on tanks, and there was a tank rolling through a city and had the words 'bellowing squeak' on its turret, I cant find anything on it! it would look really cool!
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bottom one is the T28 super tank :D surprised they actually found one
Only one left IIRC. It was rusting in the backwoods at FT Knox when they found it.
I have pics from there at my website..
http://www.51hangar.net/Photos/Photos.html
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bottom one is the T28 super tank :D surprised they actually found one
They hit it with an M-60 if I remember correctly. I mean literally hit it. As in ran into it at running speed. Nobody knew it was there, thought it was just a clump of bushes. It had sat on a back range overgrown and forgotten for 40 years after they realized it was too big to transport by ship or rail and would never be deployed even if it was put into production.
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well, why we are on this topic! i put up a post on the wishlist thread wishing for help :devil :pray
I was watching weaponology on tanks, and there was a tank rolling through a city and had the words 'bellowing squeak' on its turret, I cant find anything on it! it would look really cool!
....what type of m4 was it? i man named john qoin owns 2 shermans near my town, and he drives them around every sunday, they have there barrels removed, but he still has them, and on one of them you can faintly see the words "bellowing squeaker" on it...