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2021-04-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Volunteers spend five days digging out perfectly-preserved WWII TANK that has been buried 30ft beneath Cambridgeshire Fens for 74 YEARS

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

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Tank or APC

Posted by NN2N1 2021-04-30 07:35|| 2021-04-30 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Amphib. You can video videos of Marines in WWII hitting the beaches in them. Wiki:

LVT-4 Water Buffalo, British designation Buffalo IV (1943)

FMC modified an LVT-2 in August 1943 by moving the engine forward and adding a large ramp door in the rear,[17] allowing troops to exit from the rear of the vehicle. Capacity went from 16 troops in the LVT-2 to 30, making earlier LVTs largely obsolete. This innovation also greatly facilitated the loading and unloading of cargo. Some vehicles received armor kits. It was by far the most numerous version of the LVT, with 8,348 units delivered; the US Army received 6,083, and the British Army 500. Many of the British LVT-4 were armed with a 20 mm Polsten cannon and 2 × .30 in (7.62 mm) Browning machine guns.

Since no major changes were made to the engine and transmission of the LVT-2, the LVT-4 was completed much quicker than the LVT-3, with the first machines going into action at Saipan in June 1944.

Posted by Sneart Thromonter8301 2021-04-30 08:03|| 2021-04-30 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Nicely done ST.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-30 08:05|| 2021-04-30 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 "journalism 101"

if it has tracks its a tank

if he/she is a non-socialist Caucasian he/she is a white supremacist

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-30 09:27|| 2021-04-30 09:27|| Front Page Top

#5 There you go again P2K...assuming my pronouns!

/Sarc off

Posted by Warthog 2021-04-30 09:41|| 2021-04-30 09:41|| Front Page Top

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