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Got a kind of related story, but nothing about B-29's (my old man told me this one):
- General George S. Patton, Jr. (yes, THAT one), also named his son "George S. Patton" (George S. Patton IV)
- George IV served in both the Korean War and the Viet Nam War, and eventually advanced to the rank...
Here's something.
It was serious armor.
The proposed main armament was a 15cm piece (that's a 6" gun):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_E-100
I love the sound of those Globemaster turbines.
That's the giveaway around here when you hear traffic overhead (the house is all of 3 miles from Reagan National Airport).
That "fine turbine whine" tells you it's not something commercial climbing out of Reagan, but a C-17 climbing out of Joint...
The vid is short (under two minutes), and admittedly kind of dramatized over-the-top by the soundtrack.
But if you tone down the volume (or even shut it off), this is some footage of an impressive Panzer prototype that I'm guessing never went beyond prototype.
And I'm also guessing it was...
I don't know as much as I should, but you're saying the turbo will locate like literally on top of the block somewhere, or off to the side (off the manifold), somewhere?
Great pics, WV New Guy, thank you!
It was a fine mix of hardware, and I sure like the WWI "flapper" (with wood wheel spokes!).
Did you catch if that tank behind the cab is a fuel tank, or is it something related to the truck mission somehow (whatever that was)?
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