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James H


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http://preservedtanks.com/Profile.aspx?UniqueId=1174

These are the supposed locations of the vehicle during its lifetime:

1: Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company Limited, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Britain (Sole manufacturer of base vehicle - December 1917-)
2: Érin - Tank Corps Central Workshops, France (Conversion from Mark V to Mark V*)
3: The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Unconfirmed)
4: Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA (Until 15 December 2010)
5: BRAC Transfer, Fort Knox, Hardin County, Kentucky, USA (Road convoy December 2010)
6: National Armor and Cavalry Museum, Fort Benning, Muscogee County, Georgia, USA (Current location)

It was moved by transporter from Fort Knox to Fort Benning on 15 December 2010. Bovington had a Mark V tank (marked ‘GONE’ in its database) so, given the rarity of the type, it is presumed that this was that vehicle.

Quite a lot wrong with this. Have tried to find a way of contacting them, but can't spot one on the website.



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Better look at Wikipedia to find out the truth...

I appreciate the photos though, especially those taken by Trevor Larkum in 1983. They do raise some questions in my mind:

1. When this tank was in the Fort Knox Museum (it is the same tank - note the repair to the starboard sponson) it was painted as 9591. The 1983 photos show no sign of a serial number painted externally. How certain are we therefore that this tank really is 9591?

2. If the 1983 photos were taken in the USA, (I don't think we - i.e. Britain - exported anything like this to the States after 1983) how is it painted in the same weird camouflage scheme as Bovington's Mark V sported in the 1960s? Is the answer that someone in the USA simply copied that?

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I was just out there today crawling all over it.  It needs some serious conservation work, especially on the floor.  The impact has the initial entry point on the right sponson just under the 6 pdr, the round entered and spalled quickly.  It clearly killed the gun operator and another close to him.  The shrapnel holes are clearly visible on the engine covering to the right.  The rust is worse on the Liberty Mark VIII sitting next to it.  

 



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