Wrecks and Gate Guards: Ghosts |
Courtesy: Cyd Read at Natural Born Hikers nbhcrew@naturalbornhikers.com or you can visit here: http://www.naturalbornhikers.com |
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In this very small world only one thing is definite and that is somewhere, someplace you will find a Sherman tank either on a beach, on a pedestal, in a museum, in the woods, or in a junkyard. This M4A3E8 with its 105mm howitzer and its HVSS suspension, and more than likely US Marine support armor seem to have been driven out onto a quiet clean beach for either a party or it was being abandoned. In any case the locals wanted to make it part of their own so they dressed it up even though it has nowhere to go. Thanks Cyd! |
Fireflies In Lebanon |
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A US Marine stands near the rear of an M4A4 Sherman IV Firefly in Lebanon as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force following confrontation between Israeli forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization. It had been stripped long before the battles. Location: BEIRUT
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A left front view of a wrecked and stripped Sherman IV Firefly. In the background the 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit redeploys back to ships of Amphibious Squadron 4, at the conclusion of a multinational peacekeeping operation. Location: BEIRUT Contrary to photo discription this was not an M50
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Chilean Tank crew with their new Leopard 1A4 tanks posing next to their former tanks, Israeli M50 Shermans. The Chilean Army used the M50 through the 80's and into the early 1990's when they recieved thei first order of Leopards. M50 Shermans were relegated to tank targets. |
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