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17 September 2008 |
| Preserved Tanks in Norway |
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I'm currently on a trip to Norway, that's included a visit to its most well known military museum, the Forsvarsmuseet in the Akershus Fortress, Oslo. It has a number of tanks and other vehicles in its collection, though some are stored away from its Oslo premises.
Shown here are an M24 Chaffee outside the museum, a view of the front entrance (with M48 and Leopard 1), and a Panzer I in a tableau inside.
More details to follow.
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28 August 2008 |
| I was wondering about the lack of comments to my blog entries, so I tried adding one myself and found I couldn't. I fixed the bug today so it should all be working fine now. My apologies to anyone who had previously tried to post a comment but was unsuccessful.
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27 August 2008 |
| Preserved Tanks in Canada |
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It turned out that Saturday (23rd), my last day in North America, was the most successful. It began with driving my hire car out of Toronto early in the morning, heading north. I first went to Barrie to see the Sherman at the Barrie Armoury:
Then I drove west to the Canadian Force Base at Borden to see its famous military museum, and the tanks in the surrounding Worthington Park:
It also has various tanks on display around the base, such as this T-72:
There are many tanks in and around Borden; I'll cover them in various articles in the near future.
The afternoon was less successful. I drove fast back south to Oshawa to try to get to the Military and Industrial Museum before it shut at 5pm. However, the roads in that region are not completely developed, and my satnav got very confused and got me lost (via various unmetalled roads). I got to the museum at one minute past five, so had to make do with photographing the vehicles outside, such as this Centurion:
Finally I went hunting for a Sherman believed to be on display in Oshawa, but it wasn't at the expected address so at that point I finished up and headed for home.
I flew back on Sunday, and am now at home in the UK planning my next trip (probably to Norway).
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24 August 2008 |
| Preserved Tanks in USA - New York State & Canada |
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Having had little luck getting to tanks in NYC, I did manage to get to one in New York state, at Rochester last Wednesday. This is a T-72 at a naval and marine corps center visited by taxi:
I have since arrived in Canada and things have got better. Friday night (22nd) I hired a car and headed out into Toronto. While competing against failing light, I managed to visit two Shermans at the George Taylor Denison Armoury:
and then another in York Cemetery:
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