Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice
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#1: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: west-frontLocation: Australia PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 10:46 am
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#2: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: keef PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 1:56 pm
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Its a sentinal tank, one of very few made (66?) very nice picture

#3: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: west-frontLocation: Australia PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:42 am
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ok

#4: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: TimRoyallLocation: Holland PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:47 pm
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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!

#5: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: rynokiLocation: Australia PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2014 9:34 pm
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Nice find. Where did you dig up those pics?

#6: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: Coldsteel PostPosted: Sun May 25, 2014 7:57 am
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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"

#7: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: west-frontLocation: Australia PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2014 10:17 pm
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no not state library, an actual physical hard copy B&W photo in my collection

Like this

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

#9: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: west-frontLocation: Australia PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2014 4:40 am
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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





#10: Re: Australian Cruiser Tank Mark I (or AC1) AA practice Author: Coldsteel PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2014 6:29 am
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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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