Actually, I quite liked marching up and down the square:
monty python - army skit marching up and down - Google Search
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Don’t you mean this:
Cheers,
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When I was in NATO back in the early 2000’s, that bit was going around as the latest NATO attempt at standardization.
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I am surprised no one has mentioned this classic movie. Tank starring James Garner.
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Thanks to my insomnia, I found this movie at around 2:00 am one time and ended up watching it.
“The Steel Lady” from 1957.
An American M24 Chaffee customized to represent German armor.
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Hulk movie Abrams (based on a Chieftain) :
H.P.
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M5A1 Stewart in 1995’s Tank Girl
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Looks like an early war M4A2 Sherman, those typically ended up being Lend-leased to the Brits and Russians while we used the A3s. The Brits modeded them with the QF17 main guns and they became the VC Firefly.
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Actually it’s an early “small hatches” M4A3, with post-war upgrades including torsion bars on the engine deck. There’s a Britmodeller thread on it: Sherman from 1984 "Tank" movie - 1/35 - WIP - Work in Progress - Armour - Britmodeller.com
It looks like a direct-vision hull, but something is off. From what I can see it looks like the fixed periscope has been plated over, and a spurious “vision port” put into the front applique armour plate.
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And Punk was cool.
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Did anybody see “Is Paris Burning”? They had plenty of real Shermans, courtesy of the French Army
And mocked up M24s into Panthers and M10 GMCs
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Great movie. They managed to edit lots of real film footage into it.
Did you know the script was co-written by Francis Ford Coppola and Gore Vidal of all people?
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Yes I recall that in the credits. Very good film done in the style of Longest Day or Bridge Too Far. I read the original book a few years before seeing the movie. They film makers and script writers kept quite close to the source material from what I remember.
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He’s actually probably doing better now than then.
Let’s face it, he’s aged well, and he’s a prolific writer and producer for lots of great performers. He was on the radio here in the UK just before Christmas talking about his career. Its actually very interesting.
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Saw Billy perform many years ago when he toured with The Who for their Quadrophenia concerts. Excellent concert from all performers.
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