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vollketten


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Fort Benning has put it's photo archive online here http://www.fortbenningphotos.com/Fort-Benning-Past-Present/Historic-Armor/Historic-Armor-Photos/ (if link doesn't work I added it to the text too) 

There's a large number of WW1 images covering France, UK, and USA from about the 300 mark onwards many of which may be unqiue as I recognised only a few common images, postcard images etc.

I wasn't going to try and reproduce them all on here but I thought I'd put a selection here as the majority are unidentified in the comments section for each image.

pAjmhqW.jpgGary Bell? - EDIT - this is BABY DOLL5tHOotE.jpgEsAFOAL.jpg Cant make this index number out sorry

 

I'm sure I misread some but as far as I could tell name and index number wise we have images here of:

 

AGONY [the N is backwards]

B28

B32

BLARNEY CASTLE

HENGIST

HYENA

H [?] 952 [this is the one behind I-16]

I-16

J2 JACOB

YPAH [hard to read]

516

528

598 [location given as Vimy]

2064

4687 HOTSPUR II [location named as Beaumetz]

8043 location named as Peronne]

9015 GARY BELL ? [featured above] - EDIT - this is 'BABY DOLL'

9136

9142

9603 [location given as USA]

9907

9941

 

Hopefully some of these are new

 



-- Edited by vollketten on Tuesday 10th of May 2016 10:13:07 PM

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Lovely. Christmas has come very early this year...

Thanks very much indeed. Gary Bell, by the way is actually Baby Bell.

Gwyn

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Sorry - senior moment - I meant "Baby Doll"!!! LOL!!!



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Gwyn Evans wrote:

Sorry - senior moment - I meant "Baby Doll"!!! LOL!!!

 my eyes must be getting old . Baby Doll it is then :)

Baby Bell - you clearly were hungry when you wrote that...

 

I was drawn the the skull and crossbones on the sponson as well - lots of lovely markings on just one tank.

Hopefully some of those are new here 



-- Edited by vollketten on Tuesday 10th of May 2016 10:13:59 PM

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Certainly some I didn't remember seeing before, but I'll look at them more over the next few days.

Gwyn

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Bonjour,

There is, in these Fort Benning Tank Photo Archive, two photos (from a Schneider and a Saint Chamond destroyed),

very interresting and unkown from me.

These two photos are in very small size and it's impossible to do a good recognition of these tanks.

Who is the good contact in Fort Benning for these photos archive ?

I have tried with the website contact but it's not the good way !

Merci et bonne soirée - Michel



-- Edited by Tanker on Monday 6th of March 2017 05:55:47 PM

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Could you post the Schneider and St. Chamond photos? I went to the Ft. Benning site, but such photos are not easy to find on the site. Maybe I recognize their origins.

 



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Bonjour Steve,

 In Fort Benning Historic Armor Photos 

 

Page 20/24     - Photo n° 316/374  - Schneider M2, destroyed

    https://photos.smugmug.com/Fort-Benning-Past-Present/Historic-Armor/Historic-Armor-Photos/i-dZN3XnN/0/O/schneider.jpg

                Schneider, perhaps destroyed in July 1918, South/West from Soissons (Missy - Chaudun - Vierzy)

 

Page 20/24     - Photo n° 319/374    - Groupement AS n° XII - Groupe AS 38 (Captain Rime-Bruneau Group)  - Saint Chamond M2 destroyed

    https://photos.smugmug.com/Fort-Benning-Past-Present/Historic-Armor/Historic-Armor-Photos/i-GNW95jX/0/O/schneider1.jpg

This photo was taken south from Lataule and West from Saint Maur, after Méry's fights from June 1918.

Landscape in the rear, is the same from, an other photo, with also, a destroyed Saint Chamond (the number 62662)

This Saint Chamond, from AS 38, is probably n° 62644 from Lt Dhaille  (First tank from third battery)

 

Thank you so much et très bonne journée - Michel



-- Edited by Tanker on Wednesday 8th of March 2017 01:02:17 PM

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Those two photos from Fort Benning are new to me. They may be from a Fort Benning infantry photo album rather than the Fort Knox Armor Center stuff (that I am more familiar with)



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Thank you, Steve !

Of course, the Armor Tank Museum is not again in Fort Benning !

I have seen that it will be not far away from the Infantry Museum, and probably in 1920 . . . .

I try, first, with the National Infantry Museum from Fort Benning.

Tank you again - Michel



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The Fort Knox collections from the Patton Museum and Armor Center are now at Fort Benning. Howver, they have not been re-opened for research as far as I know as they don't have a museum building yet.



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Here is a better photo of Baby DollImage4.jpg



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What is the source of this image of Baby Doll?  The Minnesota Historical Society owns an identical print. If there is more info about the photo (it was made in Minnesota in 1919), I believe the His. Soc. would appreciate adding it their notes.

 

Here's another view of "Baby Doll."  This one is in my own collection. 

MK-V-9015-301st-Heavy-Tank-.jpg

 

John



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I'm sorry but I do not have a record of the origin or background comment for the 9015 Baby Doll US Mark V Male photos. If I find archive reference numbers I normally keep them but not if they were posted on social media with no information. There is no information on a Google image search



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If it is 1919 then it is obviously a war bond exhibition to try and raise money to pay for the expenses of WW1. These happened in the USA and Europe after the war fro a few years. There are many photographs of similar events. It would be interesting to do searches on US newspaper archives for 1919 and 1920 on tank 9015, War Bonds and Baby Doll as keywords to see what comes up.



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