For Tank Enthusiasts: I saw this advertised on YouTube last night, and I tracked it down. You can buy an operator's manual for the WW II German Panther tank. Watch the video. It's not...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I saw this advertised on YouTube last night, and I tracked it down.

You can buy an operator's manual for the WW II German Panther tank. Watch the video. It's not your typical boring manual, but for £35, I think I'll give it a pass.

https://tankmuseumshop.org/products/pantherfibel?_pos=4&_sid=4303195ad&_ss=r

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

Just 20 minutes or so from where we live Jerry. Can recommend a visit to the museum if anyone is in the area. Pick the right day and you can here this thing in all it’s glory. Think I’ve probably posted a photo of it on UHH at some time. The manual is quite popular amongst fans of the tank.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

magnetoman wrote:

Just 20 minutes or so from where we live Jerry. Can recommend a visit to the museum if anyone is in the area. Pick the right day and you can here this thing in all it’s glory. Think I’ve probably posted a photo of it on UHH at some time. The manual is quite popular amongst fans of the tank.

We visited a war museum in England years ago. It had a tank crashing through a brick wall as the front of the building. Does that sound familiar? Below is from an earlier visit - 1968. That's a Miranda Sensorex on my shoulder. I have no idea what camera my wife used to take that picture. As you can see, my appearance has changed over the years - no more moustache.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

jerryc41 wrote:

We visited a war museum in England years ago. It had a tank crashing through a brick wall as the front of the building. Does that sound familiar? Below is from an earlier visit - 1968. That's a Miranda Sensorex on my shoulder. I have no idea what camera my wife used to take that picture. As you can see, my appearance has changed over the years - no more moustache.

Could be the local museum, I seem to recall the image you conjure. Handsome young chap in that picture - but most of our guards are!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

magnetoman wrote:

Handsome young chap in that picture - but most of our guards are!

Oh, you meant the guard was handsome.

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

Owning an operator's manual for a Panther Tank is one thing --
But there is currently an old, retired gentleman in Germany with the real thing (all 35 tons of it) parked in his basement -- The German government is a tad upset & via the courts is attempting to get him to give it up.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

ken_stern wrote:

Owning an operator's manual for a Panther Tank is one thing --
But there is currently an old, retired gentleman in Germany with the real thing (all 35 tons of it) parked in his basement -- The German government is a tad upset & via the courts is attempting to get him to give it up.

That’s interesting! The one owned by our tank museum is thought to be the only restored Tiger tank in the world. It was recovered complete due to the crew having to abandon it after the turret was jammed by an Allied shell lodging under it, rendering it incapable of moving. Each year the museum run a Tiger Day event - a true spectacular of power and noise.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

magnetoman wrote:

That’s interesting! The one owned by our tank museum is thought to be the only restored Tiger tank in the world. It was recovered complete due to the crew having to abandon it after the turret was jammed by an Allied shell lodging under it, rendering it incapable of moving. Each year the museum run a Tiger Day event - a true spectacular of power and noise.

There was a series on TV about a couple of English guys who restored old tanks.

D-5008 Loc: Raleigh, North Carolina

[quote=magnetoman]That’s interesting! The one owned by our tank museum...

Interesting, here's a good link to 'Tiger Day VIII' which I attended in 2017;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrw60erz4SY

Was able to get a number of good shots and lucked out that in had rained that
morning which kept the dust down.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

jerryc41 wrote:

There was a series on TV about a couple of English guys who restored old tanks.

Don’t think I’ve seen that Jerry but military vehicles seem to have quite a following over here. When we had the magneto restoration business my wife wound some huge bobbins for military vehicle Bosch magnetos. I didn’t see those mags though, they were trade windings.

magnetoman Loc: Purbeck, Dorset, UK

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magnetoman wrote:

That’s interesting! The one owned by our tank museum...

Interesting, here's a good link to 'Tiger Day VIII' which I attended in 2017;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrw60erz4SY

Was able to get a number of good shots and lucked out that in had rained that
morning which kept the dust down.

Nice link - and good to see Fury trundle by - here’s a post of Fury as displayed in the museum that I put up on UHH some years back https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-337313-1.html
Think you’ll have to copy and paste if you want to see it.

D-5008 Loc: Raleigh, North Carolina

Thanks magnetoman, came through OK.

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

There is a video showing what appears to be a German Army tank retriever hauling the Panther out of its basement -- The tank is missing its treads -- But otherwise, it has that ready to go factory-new look about it -- The fellow also had an 88mm gun!!!! The now-former owner is 88yrs old -- I think -- The German Government is bringing him up on Illegal Weapons Possession

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

jerryc41 wrote:

We visited a war museum in England years ago. It had a tank crashing through a brick wall as the front of the building. Does that sound familiar? Below is from an earlier visit - 1968. That's a Miranda Sensorex on my shoulder. I have no idea what camera my wife used to take that picture. As you can see, my appearance has changed over the years - no more moustache.

My first SLR was a Miranda Sensorex. You’re the only other person I’ve heard of that had this camera. I loved that camera, with a 50mm 1.4 lens. Bought it in 1971, used, and took thousands of slides with it of my kids growing up. As I recall, it was totally manual, and the shutter button was on the upper front of the camera, as opposed to the top (a little odd). Taking so many photos of my young kids with a manual camera taught me how to quickly adjust settings and compose my shots.
In 2015, I was moving and found it in one of my storage boxes. I hadn’t taken a photo in about 25 years at that time, so I sold it on eBay. Ironically, in 2016 I bought my first digital camera (Fuji X-T2) and got re-interested in photography again. Regretted having sold the Miranda. Such is life.

srg

jerryc41 wrote:

We visited a war museum in England years ago. It had a tank crashing through a brick wall as the front of the building. Does that sound familiar? Below is from an earlier visit - 1968. That's a Miranda Sensorex on my shoulder. I have no idea what camera my wife used to take that picture. As you can see, my appearance has changed over the years - no more moustache.

Jerry that's a really great picture. I think it's a good idea for all of us to post a picture of ourselves in our youth.