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Mark Hansen


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A photo has been advertised on eBay (item no. 120100883295) which shows a Mk V on display somewhere in Europe or Russia during WW2. The WD number seems to show it to be a hermaphrodite but the odd thing about the tank is that it has what seems to me to be a 37mm gun in the male sponson. Were some Mk V's re-armed during their time in Russia or is this a case of not wanting to display a tank with an empty sponson?

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37mm guns tend to date from the late 1920s or early 30s onwards until about 1940/41 when it became clear that they weren't really up to the job of dealing with the armour of the day. The Mk V tanks left in Russia would have been retired by then and doled out as presentation tanks for display but perhaps in the Baltic states it might have been a possible 'upgrade' to put a higher velocity gun in the sponson.

How do we know that its WW2? Could be 1930s?

There is something very much not right about the unditching rail on that tank.

-- Edited by Centurion at 12:35, 2007-03-23

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One other thought - if that is a Russian then the gun could be a 40mm taken from one of the useless "British Workman" mediums that Vickers sold the Soviets and put in the Mk V for display purposes.

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Centurion wrote:

...How do we know that its WW2? Could be 1930s?

There is something very much not right about the unditching rail on that tank.

-- Edited by Centurion at 12:35, 2007-03-23
It is entirely possible that the photo dates from any time after WWI. All I went off was the sellers description "A WWII photo of a tank from the time of WWI".
I think you'll find that the "unditching rail" is in fact the exhaust pipe.



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