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    Hello,

    I've never been to Bovington but I did visit the German Panzer Musuem in Munster today with my son.

    I didn't rate it much but my son enjoyed himself which was the reason for going in the first place. Anyway, I took some pics and thought I'd show them to you.

    Tony

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    Yes Dave, they had one which was surrounded by people having their photos taken standing in front of it, by the side of it and behind it. I only wanted to take a photo of the tank on its own but couldn't.

    Tony

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    Yes Dave, they had one which was surrounded by people having their photos taken standing in front of it, by the side of it and behind it. I only wanted to take a photo of the tank on its own but couldn't.

    Tony

    That's a shame mate sad.gif

    Dave

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    Some great pictures there Tony...... smile.gif

    Thats a Sturmmorser Tiger with the unusual barrel, unless i'm mistaken. Only 18 of those were ever converted from the Tiger I, so it's great to see one on display, a rare beast indeed......

    Do you know if the WWI tank is a Sturmpanzerwagen A7V? I've never seen one of those either. Again, produced in very small numbers, about 20. Not very effective apparently.

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    The A7V on display at the museum in Munster is a replica built between 1897 and 1990 using drawings provided by Universit?t der Bundeswehr in Hamburg. The only surviving A7V is 506 "Mephisto", which can be seen at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia. This was also used to provide information for the reconstruction of the Munster vehicle, which differs in some details from the tank down under.

    The image below was removed from an album (I would love to have seen or obtained the rest of it) and shows vehicle number 507 "Cyklop" on the move. This vehicle is reported to have been scrapped by the Allies in 1919 (http://www.answers.com/topic/a7v):

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    Cheers for that David. I can only feel for the poor sods who had to fight in those things.

    I heard that more British WWI tankers were killed by the poison from their own engines than by the enemy. I see no reason to doubt it......

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