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Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
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Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 10:46 am Post subject: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice

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Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 1:56 pm Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
Its a sentinal tank, one of very few made (66?) very nice picture

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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:42 am Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
ok

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Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
Back in 1981/2, I was on practice camp at Hohne ranges in Germany with my Abbot Battery and we did the same thing using balloons for AAAD targets for the LMGs on the Abbots! Got some pictures somewhere. Happy days!

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Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
Nice find. Where did you dig up those pics?

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Posted: Sun May 25, 2014 7:57 am Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
Most likely the State Library of Victoria. The link doesn't seem to want to work, you want to go to search.slv.vic.gov.au/ and search for "Releasing balloons used as targets for A.A. firing practice from A.C.I. tanks"

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Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
no not state library, an actual physical hard copy B&W photo in my collection Like this

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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 4:28 am Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
OK. Well for everybody else the SLV has downloadable hi-res TIFF versions of all three of those photos and many more.

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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 4:40 am Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
Good luck finding anything via search engines on library sites like that - riddled with present day spelling errors and vague period captions.... electric tank target range which consists of a concrete slab on wheels on a track which provides a moving target

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Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 6:29 am Post subject: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
I know, finding anything in an archive, doesn't seem to matter if it is the War Memorial or National Archives or a library, always seems to involve an element of luck. Surprising what turns up sometimes though.

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