Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by stril » 13 Sep 2011, 22:42

Thank you :-)
Dont think its a water tank. Seems like some parts is for closing a lid or sometning from the inside.
Ill loook further into it, and take som more pictures next time im there
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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by kstdk » 17 Nov 2011, 23:18

Hello

A couple of pictures from IWM.

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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by Tommygunn » 18 Nov 2011, 09:23

Kurt,
Do you have those photos in a higher res, in particular the Italian photos of the Turms?

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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by kstdk » 18 Nov 2011, 18:25

Hello Tommy

You - and others - can find them here - among lots of other very interesting pictures, just use the search function:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/searc ... =3&submit=
Tommygunn wrote:Kurt,
Do you have those photos in a higher res, in particular the Italian photos of the Turms?
Tom.
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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by Tommygunn » 18 Nov 2011, 18:35

Excellent, thanks.

Tom.

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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by jopaerya » 13 Mar 2012, 22:01

A other strange photo from my HD , looks a turret on a bunker
also the place is hard to find , looks to me Jarzewo ??

Photo is from Ebay-de

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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by Jose85 » 14 Mar 2012, 00:38

Isn't it a soviet purpose made steel turret for a pillbox/bunker? Soviets made a lot of them in WW2 and postwar times.

This is a postwar type.Sorry i couldn't find a photo of a WW2 type. :oops:
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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by herring » 14 Mar 2012, 00:41

Yartsevo in Russia?

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Post by Andrzej Ditrich » 14 Mar 2012, 02:55

Jose85 wrote:Isn't it a soviet purpose made steel turret for a pillbox/bunker? Soviets made a lot of them in WW2 and postwar times.

This is a postwar type.Sorry i couldn't find a photo of a WW2 type. :oops:
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This is postwar construction and looks to me like example preserved in outdoor exhibition-mayby Stalin Line Museum.

According to b&w photo: it shows turret attached on bunker which was built by the bridge over Dniepr river. Bunker+turret were used to defence this river crossing.
Turret looks like construction dedicated to this specific bunker or like from ... armoured train.

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Post by jopaerya » 14 Mar 2012, 08:17

Thanks for your reply's and picture's 8-)

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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by Manuferey » 01 Apr 2012, 15:58

A Pz IV tank turret somewhere in Germany in 1945. We can still see the number “333” on the side. I assume that this number was a remain from its former state as a whole tank.

The picture was taken by Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Ronald Frederick (Ron) Layton, 453 Squadron RAAF after he had hitched a ride in a truck to Berlin with fellow squadron member "Undie" Underwood and two RAF men. No. 453 Squadron RAAF was posted at that time in Wunstorf, Germany

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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by Clive Mortimore » 01 Apr 2012, 16:36

Hi Emmanuel

Looking at the "base" the turret is sitting on I think it is one of the immobile tanks that were dug in. The base looks like the superstructure of a Pz IV.

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Post by Manuferey » 01 Apr 2012, 17:30

Thanks Clive. That would explained the size of the patch of packed dirt around the turret. :D

I'll blame my mistake on April Fool's Day. :wink:

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Post by Andrzej Ditrich » 02 Apr 2012, 13:01

Manuferey wrote:A Pz IV tank turret somewhere in Germany in 1945. We can still see the number “333” on the side. I assume that this number was a remain from its former state as a whole tank.

The picture was taken by Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Ronald Frederick (Ron) Layton, 453 Squadron RAAF after he had hitched a ride in a truck to Berlin with fellow squadron member "Undie" Underwood and two RAF men. No. 453 Squadron RAAF was posted at that time in Wunstorf, Germany

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It's in Berlin :D

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Re: Bunkers with tank turrets!

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Post by Andrzej Ditrich » 14 Jan 2013, 22:43

Another PzIV dug in, Berlin 1945
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