Bunkermeister  | 31 Mar 2024 7:53 p.m. PST |
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| TimePortal | 31 Mar 2024 8:46 p.m. PST |
Walker Bulldogs rather than Shermans. Tanks belonged to a country iirc. |
| David Manley | 31 Mar 2024 11:35 p.m. PST |
M24 Chaffees, and they were Spanish, IIRC |
| TimePortal | 01 Apr 2024 3:02 a.m. PST |
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| Col Piron | 01 Apr 2024 3:48 a.m. PST |
Spanish M47 Patton tanks painted to represent German King Tiger tanks for the 1965 movie "The Battle of the Bulge".
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| Mollinary | 01 Apr 2024 7:44 a.m. PST |
Just as, I believe, the Spanish Air Force provide the Heinkels and Me 109s for the film ‘The Battle of Britain. |
| Grelber | 01 Apr 2024 9:05 a.m. PST |
I think I still have the booklet they sold at theatres for the movie. I should try to find it. I saw the film in Cinerama (a curved screen) in the Big City (Wichita). Grelber |
 gamertom | 01 Apr 2024 6:24 p.m. PST |
I too saw it in Cinerama on a curved screen on the only theater in St. Louis to have one (saw 2001 in the same theater on the same scene several years later). IIRC the scenes shot from the bottom of a car racing down a road were considered quite something at the time. As a kid my favorite scene was the German tank coming over the wall with two American soldiers slapping explosives on the bottom of the hull, presumably a last ditch effort to stop the tank. |
| Bunkermeister | 01 Apr 2024 8:49 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the comments and great memories. Bunkermeister |
| 0ldYeller | 02 Apr 2024 8:51 a.m. PST |
I believe they also used the Spanish Air Force and Army for the filming of Patton – M-47/48 (for Germans), M-24 (for British) and M-41 etc (for US). |
| Mark 1 | 04 Apr 2024 10:10 a.m. PST |
My oldest brother (14 years my senior) took me to the premier at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. link They had a tank in the parking lot of the theater. I believe it was a Chaffee, but honestly I was 6 years old, so who actually knows… It started a lifelong obsession with tanks that endures to this day. -Mark
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 deadhead | 04 Apr 2024 1:57 p.m. PST |
Say what you liked about Fury and the tactics against the Tiger and especially the logic of that insane last stand and how badly that was conducted, but they did make a huge effort to get the tanks right. "SPR" showed little armour, but what it did show looked right, even the T34/Tigers. Best was "Kelly's Heroes". They made an effort to look right too. "Paris, Brule t'il?" and "The Longest Day" made an effort and used many a 1945 model of Sherman, but the latter, at least, had a real Churchill AVRE also. By the 70s they really did not care, a tank was a tank, just paint it grey or green. |
opens the box on the Armoured Panzergrenadier Company HQ (Late-War) for Flames of War.
