Could someone help me to identify the turret carried by the vehicles number 3 and 4 (from left to right)? The turret carried by number 2 seems to be a rare KV-2 one but I can't identify the other ones..
Picture taken at the Museum of Military Air Forces of the Northern Fleet, Safonovo, Smolensk Oblast (Russia)
thanks
P-O
#2: Re: Weird turrets on IS-2 tanks Author: JeffStringer, Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:48 pm ---- Looks like a KV-1 turret sitting on that chassis.
#3: Re: Weird turrets on IS-2 tanks Author: TrevorLarkum, Location: Northampton, EnglandPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:41 pm ---- There are 21 tanks identified there in Preserved Tanks in Russia (pages 72-3), including an IS-2M fitted with a KV-2 turret with replica mantlet, and two IS-2M's fitted with replica KV-1 turrets and guns. One of the more interesting vehicles is a Sherman with a hatch in the glacis plate (a la T-34). The implication is that these vehicles have mostly been mocked up, perhaps for a film.
I'm currently putting PTIR online at preservedtanks.com. The Kubinka chapter will be up later this month, and this chapter should follow next month.
#4: Re: Weird turrets on IS-2 tanks Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, FrancePosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:04 am ---- thanks Trevor for your help.
Pierre-Olivier
#5: Re: Weird turrets on IS-2 tanks Author: TrevorLarkum, Location: Northampton, EnglandPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:37 pm ---- No problem. Unfortunately I've misplaced the other photo's or I'd post them. I hope I find them before I need them (otherwise I'll have to use the black & white scans done for the book).
