IG1065 Posted 30 January , 2010 Share Posted 30 January , 2010 I may be imagining it but isn't that a white 4 in a black square on the side of the tank? If so then its one of the American 301st's and probably one of the ones shipped back to the US in early 1919 displayed alongside captured guns. Though a bit new to all of this I have had a general interest in WW1 for quite some time. I remember seeing that picture somewhere a while ago and IIRC the caption stated it was a park in Washington DC around 1920 where equipment used by all sides was displayed to satisfy the curiosity of a very inquisitive public. I will try and track down where I saw that photo. If I am not mistaken it could have been part of the National Archives WW1 Photographic collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidearm Posted 31 January , 2010 Share Posted 31 January , 2010 Hi - I've been away and just caught up with these posts. Thanks for the views on the photo I posted. It would be great to get to the bottom of this. Centurion - is it possible for you to post your enhanced image, please? Thanks all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 31 January , 2010 Share Posted 31 January , 2010 OK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 31 January , 2010 Share Posted 31 January , 2010 Photo of a 301st tank in France showing positioning of the 4 symbol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Druid_Ian Posted 31 January , 2010 Share Posted 31 January , 2010 Show me Still doesn't answer the fact that the tank has a 301st ID marking and none were captured. Sorry i was thinking of the first posters image http://www.flickr.com/photos/7700258@N05/9...57601074581465/ and the 2nd colour photo of the Berliner Dom where the same artillery peice appears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Moore Posted 31 January , 2010 Share Posted 31 January , 2010 Here's another view of the Berliner Dom in May 1945, with the MkV tanks which were on display in the Lustgarten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG1065 Posted 1 February , 2010 Share Posted 1 February , 2010 Heres a thought. I wonder what happened to the tanks that were bought here to the US after the end of the war? I am not saying I am completely right about that photo but I do remember reading a caption stating that it was Washington DC. However I am always prepared to accept the fact that I could be wrong or someone albeit well intentioned may have mislabelled that pic.Add to that it was a few years ago. Who knows? But it does lead to an interesting question. What happened to the tanks that were bought back here after the war? It just has my interest piqued so to say. I think I will e mail the national WW1 Museum here and see what they say if anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 2 February , 2010 Share Posted 2 February , 2010 There was an organisation that surfaced about a year ago that was creating a history of the 301st. They posted on the web a list of the documents and photos so far collected (but not the actual photos and documents - grrrrh). They then sank like a soft metal aerostat. The list did suggest that the 301st had about 6 tanks of Mk V and V* model which had been shipped back to the US. One of these appears to have ended up in the Patton museum but as for the others who knows. In addition there were a number of Mk IVs and a Mk V (male) shipped directly to the USA. One of the Mk IVs is at Aberdeen pretending to be the original Britannia touring tank (which it isn't as it has no cab roof hatch but Aberdeen don't want to know!). The original Britannia ended up at the tank school and was there in 1919 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heid the Ba Posted 2 February , 2010 Author Share Posted 2 February , 2010 Thanks Centurion and others, very interesting photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelS Posted 2 February , 2010 Share Posted 2 February , 2010 But it does lead to an interesting question. What happened to the tanks that were bought back here after the war? It just has my interest piqued so to say. I think I will e mail the national WW1 Museum here and see what they say if anything. One of the cable channels was showing Pathe Newsreels -1940 this evening which included this footage Click showing a grave yard of American 'WW1 tanks' said to being sold to Canada to be used for training purposes. I'll leave it to the experts to determine the version and whether any of them may (unlikely?) or may not have been around to have actually seen WWI service - regardless of that, hope it's of interest. NigelS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil@basildon Posted 2 February , 2010 Share Posted 2 February , 2010 They are post war tanks. Some or all of them may even be of American build. They look a lot like Mk VI's but they never went into production in the UK. Perhaps someone can confirm production in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil@basildon Posted 2 February , 2010 Share Posted 2 February , 2010 The tanks in the film are Mk VIII's. Only 7 of them were completed in the UK. A further 100 were shipped to the US in 1918 for the instalation of the engine and transmission, but with the end of the war they were no longer required. The British ones had a Ricardo 300hp engine, the American tanks had a 300hp Liberty engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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