Wednesday, 22 August 2018

Overloon Museum - British & Commonwealth

On mow to the British & Commonwealth WW2 kit.  The museum has so much stuff crammed in that it's difficult to get decent photos of some of it, but here goes.
Above - Crusader gun tug - these were used for dragging the rather weighty 17pdr.  Being an already brisk Crusader but shorn of the weight of turret and gun this was apparently quite a nippy thing.
Mine detection kit - being strapped into something which has just identified a mine doesn't seem like a good idea to me!
The splendid Valentine bridgelayer.

Canadian Otter armoured car
17 Pounder AT gun - being towed by the Crusader tug above.

6 Pounder AT gun
CMP 3-tonner

CMP lorry with office body
Archer SP AT gun
Churchill AVRE
Details of the crew of this very tank - click to enlarge it to legible size
It's clearly had a rough time

Cromwell
6-pdr again
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6 comments:

  1. Fire at Will22 August 2018 at 21:29

    Nice selection, never did manage to get to Overloon while I worked in the Netherlands. Maybe someday

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  2. Tim Gow22 August 2018 at 21:41

    Will McNally
    Worth the trip.

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  3. Chris Kemp22 August 2018 at 22:34

    Most of the AVREs had a hard time; part of the consequences of having a large calibre short-range demolition gun :-)

    Regards, Chris

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  4. roma91223 August 2018 at 20:01

    Great pictures

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  5. Martin Rapier24 August 2018 at 17:00

    Are you absolutely sure that is an AVRE (despite the caption)? It seems to be armed with a 95mm rather than a 290mm....

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  6. Martin Rapier24 August 2018 at 17:04

    Ah, and in some other blurb about Jackal it says it was a Mark V from the HQ troop.

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