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Beaver Gate Display - Camp Dodge, IA Gallery
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Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:31 am Post subject: Beaver Gate Display - Camp Dodge, IA Gallery
Hello All, We’ve added a gallery of photos of the display near the Beaver Gate at Camp Dodge, IA. www.vgbimages.com/AFV-...652_QQLZ29 As I mention in the gallery description, the M4A1E8 Sherman listed for this location in the AFV Registry has been pulled to be repainted and put on display in front of the Iowa Gold Star Museum on Camp Dodge. An M60A3 is displayed in its place at the gate.

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Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:52 am Post subject: Re: Beaver Gate Display - Camp Dodge, IA Gallery
I am glad you took pictures of the markings at the back of M47. There is a plate that identify this as a former Italian tank. Massimo

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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:59 am Post subject: Re: Beaver Gate Display - Camp Dodge, IA Gallery
It's easy enough to ID a returned Italian M47 with out seeing the plate. The rain gutters on the turret sides. U.S. tanks didn't have them. They were added in Italy.

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Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:02 am Post subject: Re: Beaver Gate Display - Camp Dodge, IA Gallery
- tanker2010 It's easy enough to ID a returned Italian M47 with out seeing the plate. The rain gutters on the turret sides. U.S. tanks didn't have them. They were added in Italy. There are many Italian M47s without the rain gutters. It's an handy feature, but not the ultimate id. Massimo

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Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:49 pm Post subject: Re: Beaver Gate Display - Camp Dodge, IA Gallery
Also Belgian M47s had them, at least the Bovington and Fort Knox ones: Type ID 1640: Preserved M47s _________________ Trevor Dr Trevor Larkum Preserved Tanks: PreservedTanks.com Armour Archive: ArmourArchive.co.uk EVs

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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:00 pm
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- Massimo_Foti

- tanker2010

It's easy enough to ID a returned Italian M47 with out seeing the plate. The rain gutters on the turret sides. U.S. tanks didn't have them. They were added in Italy.

There are many Italian M47s without the rain gutters. It's an handy feature, but not the ultimate id.

Massimo

The rain gutters are a hallmark of the rebuild process which usually happened quite fast after their initial receipt.

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