Our friends in Vaux inform us that the parade in Paris featured chars de la Grande Guerre. Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Up2OqHpdjQ
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This is our old favourite photo of an FT in Kabul. IIRC we weren't able to pinpoint its exact location.
This is another view of the tank, shown in the TV coverage of the parade. I hadn't seen it before.
One of the men co-hosting the coverage says he and two military colleagues discovered the tank outside a barracks in Afghanistan, shortly after the Taliban left, and he took the photo. I've listened to the commentary but haven't heard his name mentioned. Can anyone i.d. him?
Unfortunately, the reason he gives for the FT being there is that Britain was "in Afghanistan in the 1920s", and bought them from France to use there. He also describes them as FT 17, which is disappointing.
"Sometimes things that are not true are included in Wikipedia. While at first glance that may appear like a very great problem for Wikipedia, in reality is it not. In fact, it's a good thing." - Wikipedia.
"Sometimes things that are not true are included in Wikipedia. While at first glance that may appear like a very great problem for Wikipedia, in reality is it not. In fact, it's a good thing." - Wikipedia.
