Mk 1 with Littlefield's Panzer, Mk 1.
Littlefield's collection was remarkable. It was an amazing place. No other place like it on earth!
The Littlefield Panther, during the restoration. You are not a bona-fide treadhead until you've broken track on a 45 ton tank!
Here is the fully restored Panther is all it's glory, as Steve Zaloga and Michael Green debate the "Panther scare" of 1944.
Michael was on the board of Littlefield's museum. He used the resources of the museum, it's collection of vehicles and it's collection of documents, for research for many of his books.
We did a whole section for his most recent Sherman book ( link ) by studying the ammo stowage on the various models of Shermans in the Littlefield collection …
Littlefield provided an absolutely amazing resource for tank historians. It was quite a remarkable place!
This was the last time I saw Jacques. He is third from the left, sitting next to author Vladimir Yakubov (
link ), who also served as a docent at Littlefield's museum. A group of us had lunch and beer at a local dive. I was later told that this was the day that Jacques decided to stop further treatments for his cancer. I had no idea at the time …
Sigh …
-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)