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Bodlosh


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Australian Dummy tanks
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I found this information: "1918-09 le Verguier, France Dummy tanks used successfully by the 4th Australian Division in the attack on le Verguier in 1918-09. These tanks (10 in number) were made by the 4th Field Company Australian Engineers entirely of wood & canvas. They were camouflage painted & even had names and regimental colours added. Two eight foot diameter wheels with wide flanges supported the tanks 6 inches clear of the ground and crews of six men had no difficulty in pushing the tanks over boggy ground and trenches. Only one tank was disabled & two of the crews slightly disabled by machine gun fire."

Is it possible that Australians made these dummies to scare enemies? If you have some other infomation please post it here..
I found also one picture


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Centurion


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Covered earlier in this forum -click link and then read through this thread. You'll find the same photo and some info on Aussi dummies


http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=63528&subForumID=169814&action=viewTopic&commentID=6097683


There is a lot of good stuff in this forum but U need to use the search facility



-- Edited by Centurion at 15:03, 2006-04-13

-- Edited by Centurion at 15:04, 2006-04-13

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