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by Panzer_M » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:20 am
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by kimtheredxd » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:28 am
Where are the pics from? any more info on this tank like the history etc?
Could not think of anything to put here.
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by Panzer_M » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:48 am
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland...US Army Armour Museum.
This was the Elefant captured in Italy '44...near Anzio IIRC
Planning a trip up next fall before the snow
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by olifant » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:43 pm
Very cool find Mike! This must be the only surviving piece?
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by exether_mega » Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:46 pm
wish they store it in a warehouse. So sad to see all those armor rusting outside in a sad grey paint sheme.
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by Panzer_M » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:08 pm
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Kublinka(Moscow) has a Ferdie in it's collection(inside display)
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by ostketten » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:29 pm
Looks fabulous... It's nice to see they are at least making some attempts to restore some of the pieces that were in dire need of it. Note the pitting from the shell glancing off the mantlet...I like they way they did that, wonder if this was from actual combat, or if they "modeled" it. If I'm not mistaken they had a Soviet B4 203mm tracked howitzer there at one time, last I saw it was in pathetic condition, it's too bad because these are extremely rare outside the former Soviet Union.
http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/ ... witzer.htm
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by Panzer_M » Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:53 pm
APG scrapped alot of stuff since the war.
A Karl Morser with it's rail transport, a Pz I ausf. F (80mm Armour on a redesigned running gear similar to Panther/Pz II Lynx), and other stuff.
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by ostketten » Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:15 pm
APG scrapped alot of stuff since the war.
A Karl Morser with it's rail transport, a Pz I ausf. F (80mm Armour on a redesigned running gear similar to Panther/Pz II Lynx), and other stuff.
WOW
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I know there are wealthy museums and collectors around the world that will pay
BIG bucks for these things, it seems stupid and wasteful to just scrap these important pieces of history.
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by aferguson » Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:15 am
if it was captured in Italy it should have zimmerit on it. Did they remove it during the restoration process?
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by Jagdpanther » Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:17 am
Nice!
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by Panzer_M » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:08 am
ostketten wrote:APG scrapped alot of stuff since the war.
A Karl Morser with it's rail transport, a Pz I ausf. F (80mm Armour on a redesigned running gear similar to Panther/Pz II Lynx), and other stuff.
WOW
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I know there are wealthy museums and collectors around the world that will pay
BIG bucks for these things, it seems stupid and wasteful to just scrap these important pieces of history.
someone said they also scrapped a Lynx in the 1950s...Same thing happened to alot of captured airframes saddly...priceless today to some, just wartime junk steel then.
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by Panzer_M » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:09 am
aferguson wrote:if it was captured in Italy it should have zimmerit on it. Did they remove it during the restoration process?
No idea if it had it durning the war or not..When I saw it years ago at APG, it was painted white, and I don't think it had Zimm then either.
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by aferguson » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:20 pm
if it was captured in Italy it would have to have had zimmerit. All the Ferdinands left after the post Kursk period were sent back to germany, modified, which indcluded adding zimmerit and then sent to Italy.
I can't imagine the removed the zimm. I don't even know if that's possible.
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by ostketten » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:05 pm
if it was captured in Italy it would have to have had zimmerit.
Info at Lone Sentry's site says it was captured in Italy and was originally part of schwere Panzerjäger Abteilung 653. He's usually pretty reliable, so I presume the info is accurate.
http://www.lonesentry.com/panzer/ferdin ... ivors.html
Here's another page that has pics of the same Elefant at Aberdeen, scroll down near the bottom of the page and read, apparently it had Zimm at one time so it must have been removed.
http://www.customrcmodels.com/Tanks/id101.htm
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