Camera Icon May 2018 - MM Park Museum La Wantzenau (MUSIC)

If you know me or if you have read my about me section lol you know that I am a big fan of military machines! And so here are some pictures I took at the MM Park museum at La Wantzenau, commune near Strasbourg! These ones date all the way back to 2018, it's been 7 years already... Which also means a lot has probably changed inside the museum.
Check out their website here!

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Most images have a description! I've written the descriptions in a way so if you don't know jack about tanks, you can still, i hope, understand.

music: eightiesheadachetape - gas station, six pm

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Wreck of an ARL-44, French tank destroyer, also classed as heavy tank. One of the 5 remaining ARL-44 tanks out of the 60 produced, this one's in very VERY bad shape. It's also a pre-production variant apparently! There's another ARL-44 wreck behind the museum, which is in better shape (still bad tho), but I couldn't take a picture of it as I did not know there was another one when I was visiting :( lol
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T-26 Soviet light tank
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Comet Mk. I british cruiser tank
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French Resistance Posters (not the one in the middle) and General De Gaulle pictures. This poster you see on the right and upper left is very famous. Over here in France, history class books often show this poster when talking about WW2 or the French Resistance.
see a translation here: https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/IWMPC/id/359/
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USAF B-24 diorama
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Various U.S. Army and French Liberation Army insignias, medals, patches etc...
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Rare OSS .32 Colt with specific OSS holster belonging to Jacques Suissa.
He was an agent working for the Proust Plan which was part of the Sussex Plan (US intelligence operation in german occupied France) More info here: http://www.plan-sussex-1944.net/anglais/sussex_plan.htm
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RAF B-25 Mitchell diorama
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M10 tank destroyer, US tank destroyer. This one's from the French Liberation Army, top view of the turret
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M19 GMC self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon
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French Hotchkiss H-39 captured and modified by the Germans for artillery purposes, incorporating a huge 105mm howitzer complete name for this one is "10,5-cm leFH 18 (Sf.) auf Geschützwagen 39H(f)" ......... .........phew..
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Autoblindo 41, Italian armored car
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B1 bis, French heavy tank
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LVT (A)-4, US amphibious vehicle, this one has a 75mm howitzer (same turret as the M8 light tank)
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The same M10 tank destroyer from before, front view
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The same M19 GMC from before, front view
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the famous T-34-85, Soviet medium tank
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M22 Locust, US light tank very smol
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the famous M26 Pershing, US medium tank
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the famous M4 Sherman, this one's the M4A2 variant
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SU-100, Soviet tank destroyer
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ISU-152, Soviet self propelled gun. As the name of this beast suggests, it has a huge 152mm gun. I was already aware of how big this thing was, but when I finally saw it in real life, holy shit.
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Same ISU-152 as before, side view
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Same Comet as before, side view
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Churchill Mk. VII Crocodile, british heavy tank, this is the Crocodile variant so it had a flamethrower!!!!!!!!
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