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keef · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 22

Its a sentinal tank, one of very few made (66?) very nice picture

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ok

TimRoyall

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!

rynoki

Nice find. Where did you dig up those pics?

Coldsteel · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 61

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"

west-front

no not state library, an actual physical hard copy B&W photo in my collection

Like this

Coldsteel · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 61

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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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

Coldsteel · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 61

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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