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Sorry its taken me a long time to get around to this... Had a family emergency a few weeks back, plus been really distracted by work & other things... Slowly getting back to normal, although my final semester of grad school starts up next week...

Anyway, here's some of the pictures I took inside the Saumur MusÃ©e des BlindÃ©s.

I'll actually go room by room.... You start off in the Salle "PremiÃ¨re Guerre Mondiale" right at the entrance, with the Schneider & St Chamond that used to be at Aberdeen...

There's also an FT-17TSF (command tank) chassis tucked away in the corner on a flatbed truck...

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner

Next is the Next is the Salle Campagne de France 1940.

FCM 36 (only surviving example - was outside awaiting restoration when I last visited in 2004)

Char B1 bis (turret is actually from a S-35 and this isnt its original name)

Renault R-35

Renault R-39

AMR-33

Renault ACG-1 (only surviving example - was a range target)

The SOMUA S-35 was at the carousel instead - I'll post it later in that thread.

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner

Now what many consider the main attraction - the Salle Allemande (Seconde Guerre Mondiale)...

First the panzers...

The PzKpfw I was at the carousel, so I'll post it later...

PzKpfw II Luchs

PzKpfw III

PzKpfw IV

PzKpfw V Panther (didnt seem to take enough pics)

PzKpfw VI Tiger I

Story behind it...

PzKpfw VI Tiger II

Requisite "group" shot... The meeting of AFV News discussion board USA (myself) & France (the_shadock) members...

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner

To close out the German room - unfortunately some of these came out a bit washed out due to the lighting conditions... Lesson learned, when in doubt use the tripod...

GW Lorraine(f) Marder I

PzJg 38(t) Marder III Ausf M

PzJg 38(t) Marder III Pak 36(r)

JgPz IV/48

JgPz IV/70

Jagdpanther

Swiss G13 Hetzer

GW 39H(f) FH18(Sf)

GW PzKpfw II Wespe

Wespe

Hummel

Mobelwagen

Bergepanther

StuG III

StuH 42

Brumbar

SdKfz 250-9 SPW

SdKfz 251-7 SPW

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner

I'll let ya'll "digest" those for now before moving on to the Salle Les Allies & more modern vehicles... Please let me know if someone wants more pictures of a particular subject, I may just have them...

Neil

Roy_A_Lingle

Hi Neil! Hi Folks!

Thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to post these!

Looking forward to the modern allied vehicles.
Sgt, Scouts Out!

Joe_D

WOW !

Thanks,
Joe D

the_shadock

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Requisite "group" shot... The meeting of AFV News discussion board USA (myself) & France (the_shadock) members...

Neil

That's THE picture I was waiting for..

Thanks Neil

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Renault ACG-1 (only surviving example - was a range target)

The roadwheels and a great part of the track links on the right side are missing on that tank, but you can't see it from this view. Also, there was a big hole in the righ side of the hull and that was replaced by steel sheets, only for that tank to be restored more or less cosmetically.

Pierre-Olivier

Neil_Baumgardner

Joe, dont worry, I have some specific info for you coming your way.

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner

Okay, befored getting to the Allied WWII vehicles, you first go through the very small Salle Italienne, the Salle CuriositÃ©s and then the Salle Pacte de Varsovie...

So first off the two Italian AFVs...

M15/42 tank

Semovente da 75-18 su M41

ELC bis from the room of curiosities... (also has an M3 made to look like an SPW and an M24 Chaffee made to look like a Panther if anyone really wants to see those)

And the Warsaw Pact vehicles (also had a BMP-1, BRDM-2, BTR-70, BTR-152, MT-LB, OT-64, PT-76, RM-70T and an SPR-1 if anyone really wants to see those)

T-54

T-62

Type 69 (sign said T-54/55)

T-72 trainer (the runner was at the carousel)

Yugoslav BOV-3 recovered from Bosnia

Next the allied WWII vehicles...

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner

Now the Salle Les AlliÃ©s (Seconde Guerre Mondiale)...

Sort of trying to go chronologically...

Vickers Mk VIB - with the original data plate on the hull!

Matilda II

Valentine

Churchill with some battle(?) damage

Centaur

Crusader AA

Comet

M4(75) Sherman - what model?

M5A1 Stuart

Sexton

Staghound - even found what appears to be the Ordnance catalogue number (G135) and possibly an SN on the lower front hull

(Don can you check the LST building Staghound to see if it has a similar stamp?)

KV-1 & SU-100 diorama

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner

Now Salle France - modern era French AFVs...

Two of my personal favorites, the ARL-44 and AMX-50B...

I even found a few models of AMX-50 variants in the museum

M8 HMC

AMX-40

Leclerc with a fake turret

The France room also has an AML-90, AMX-10P, AMX-10RC, AMX-13T SS-1, AMX-30B2 and AMX-30 demining vehicle, AMX-30 Pluton, EBR, ERC-90, and VAB if anyone really wants to see those...

Neil

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- Neil_Baumgardner

M4(75) Sherman - what model?

Seems to be an M4(75) because of the cut on the low area of the rear vertical plate.

- Neil_Baumgardner

KV-1 & SU-100 diorama

SU-100M from the Egyptian army captured by the French troops in Port-SaÃ¯d (Egypt) in November 1956. Three other ones were captured by the British troops and are now in Aberdeen, Bovington and Duxford museums.

Neil_Baumgardner

P-O,
I just sent you some pictures of possible SNs off APG's S-35.

Neil

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