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Dontos · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:10 am Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

- Tanklord

Don, I don't know about the vehicles, but most of the interior displays were ruined. A friend of mine had donated a collection of 1/35th scale armor, with many scratchbuilds, from the 20's thru the 50's. Most of this stuff disintegrated.

GOOOO TIGERS! Hope they are Rose Bowl Bound!

I guess I'll have to check some of my family sources 'down that way' to find out the status.

I remember seeing a shot of the Jackson Barracks Airplane park and most of the entire area was under 10-15 feet of water. Pity...

Don

Tanklord · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

Don, I don't know about the vehicles, but most of the interior displays were ruined. A friend of mine had donated a collection of 1/35th scale armor, with many scratchbuilds, from the 20's thru the 50's. Most of this stuff disintegrated.

GOOOO TIGERS! Hope they are Rose Bowl Bound!

Dontos · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

- the_shadock

That's a pic of the FT-17 at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, Lousiana. Photo was taken by Glen Williford in 2002 but he told me it is free from use. I have a pic in better resolution if interested, this one is reduced.

P-O

I'm wondering how this faired after the massive flooding of the Jackson Barracks during Hurricane Katrina.

I do know (first hand) They had an operational Stuart, that was ruined, and requires total rebuild. Anyone (down around the Bayou.. Cool

) know the status of those vehicles??

Geaux Tigers!! Mr. Green

Don

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

Ropkey Armor Museum is in Crawfordsville, Indiana not Indianapolis, Indiana, The museum was in Indianapolis at one time, and his Tank is a M1917, just to clear that up......

the_shadock · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

I've found one pic of the US M-1917 tank in Newport News - Virginia War Museum, it's ok for this one.

Neil, quoting your V2.2 list :

ANDERSON
Historical Military Armor Museum
FT-17 / M1917?

It's surely an US M-1917, I have a better picture of it.

INDIANAPOLIS
Ropkey Armor Museum
FT-17 / M1917? FRA/USA?

That's also an US M-1917 tank (thanks armyjunk for the pic Wink

)

They are already on the PDF file, but if somebody is interested, I can post them.

That's a pic of the FT-17 at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, Lousiana. Photo was taken by Glen Williford in 2002 but he told me it is free from use. I have a pic in better resolution if interested, this one is reduced.

P-O

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

The Museum at Nitro WV is gone, I was by there a month ago...building is falling in...Tank is gone

bsmart · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

- the_shadock

I'm now looking for photos of this :
US M-1917 - Danbury - Military Museum of Southern New England
US M-1917 - Wheaton - 1st Division Museum at Cantigny
US M-1917 - Newport News - Virginia War Museum
US M-1917 - Manville NJ
FT-17 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ French army base, Satory (France)
FT-17 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Fort Seclin (France) Ã¢â‚¬â€œ better picture
FT-17 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Historical Military Armor Museum, Anderson (USA) - better picture
3 other FT-17 tanks in Brazil (recent photos)

P-O

Jeff Button - Didn't you take some pictures at the Newport News site when you were at Ft Useless?

I just realized I don't think we've heard from Jeff in a while. Do we need to send a search party out?

Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

- the_shadock

Also, who could tell me which tank is this one :

Oh yeah! Thats the super-secret French "Mini-Schneider" tank. Wink

Seriously, it appears to be an attempt at a mockup of a French Schneider tank, but is about more the scale of a Universal Carrier...

Need to "get someone there" to take pictures of that museum, its outside of Chicago... They have a T26E4 Pershing, which I believe is the only surviving long-barrelled erstwhile "Super Pershing" in the world...

I believe there is only one surviving CA1 Scheider in the world, formerly at the Ordnance Museum at APG and now at the French armor museum in Saumur.

Neil

Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

Found it! Manville NJ, on the VFW's website:

vfw2290.org/Tank/tank.html

The VFW seems to think their "WW1 1917 Renault FT" is a combat veteran. However the WWI survivor site claims the damage is from testing in the US (more likely IMO...).

One a related note, while looking for a website for Nitro "War Memorial Museum" or "World War I Museum" (unsuccesfully), I did find the following note on the Nitro M1917, from last week nonetheless:

"In other business, Casto said he wanted City Attorney Troy Giatras to recover a World War I era Renault tank that is stored in Huntington. The tank, which had been stored at the cityÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s World War I museum, had been removed for cleaning.

"Casto said he was worried that the cleaning process might involve sandblasting, which would permanently damage the relic. Ã¢â‚¬Å“If its ruined, I might go down there with a World War I machine gun,Ã¢â‚¬Â? Casto joked."

wvgazette.com/section/...2006112118

Neil

the_shadock · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

- Neil_Baumgardner

There is also apparently an M1917 at VFW Post 2290 in Manville NJ.

Pierre, no real idea on the pictures - where did you get them from?

Neil

I've found this one here :

http://www.landships.freeservers.com/m1917_6tonner_late.htm

I hope that somebody will be able to recognize the building.

Also, who could tell me which tank is this one :

I 've found the photo here on a website presenting the 1st Division Museum at Cantigny :

http://www.mccormicktribune.org/firstdivision/main.htm

I'm now looking for photos of this :
US M-1917 - Danbury - Military Museum of Southern New England
US M-1917 - Wheaton - 1st Division Museum at Cantigny
US M-1917 - Newport News - Virginia War Museum
US M-1917 - Manville NJ
FT-17 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ French army base, Satory (France)
FT-17 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Fort Seclin (France) Ã¢â‚¬â€œ better picture
FT-17 Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Historical Military Armor Museum, Anderson (USA) - better picture
3 other FT-17 tanks in Brazil (recent photos)

P-O

armyjunk2 · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Sep 22, 2006 Posts: 1416

the blue green tank is in bloomington Illinois US and it is my picture...please feel free to use it..

Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

There is also apparently an M1917 at VFW Post 2290 in Manville NJ.

Pierre, no real idea on the pictures - where did you get them from?

Neil

the_shadock · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:34 am Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

Could somebody give me the location of those 2 US M-1917 tanks?

Jeff, thanks for the photo from Aberdeen. I've added it to the file Wink

.

Pierre-Olivier

piney · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:34 am Post subject: Re: French and American FT-17

feel free to use it in your PDF if you want P-O

Jeff Lewis

piney · Last edited by piney on Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:56 am; edited 2 times in total

Here is a picture of K-K-K-Katy that I took one one of Bob Smart's great tours HTH

Jeff Lewis

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