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#76: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:33 pm
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- Neil_Baumgardner

Hmm... It appears they have repainted the “First US Sample Tank” (M1917)

and camouflaged it, even if it was only a "sample tank"..
Rolling Eyes

P-O

#77: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: TrevorLarkum, Location: Northampton, England

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:42 pm
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The Ottawa M1917 has been restored:

blogs.ottawacitizen.co...-like-new/

#78: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: bialy-r, Location: POLAND

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:12 am
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There are some affords to bring to Poland a FT-17 tank from Afghanistan. That could? be a "new" FT-17 tank found by Polish soldier.

odkrywca.pl/pokaz_wate...19#1492152

poznan.gazeta.pl/pozna...ydent.html

It will be a gift of Afghanistan government.

There are some talks that the tank could be an original Polish tank which was lost in Polish-Soviet 1920 war and then given by Soviet Union to Afghanistan. I don't know if that's write or if that is an "argument" to bring it to Poland. But Poland used 120 FT-17 tanks in that war and some where lost during fights.

#79: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: Pzkpfw-e,

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 3:30 pm
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Never mind the rights or wrongs of it, just get it to safety!

#80: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 7:23 pm
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yeah, one more !!

P-O

#81: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: bialy-r, Location: POLAND

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:47 am
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odkrywca.pl/ft-17-dla-...tml#709819

#82: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:27 am
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I'd bet that this is the same one than this one. Same damages on the outer border of the tracks, the gun is pointing in the same direction and they probably removed the piece of pipe that used to be a fake barrel :

#83: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: Massimo_Foti, Location: Lugano, Switzerland

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:39 am
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Jope they will start recovering some L3 tankette too...

Massimo

#84: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: sil3nt, Location: Poznan, Poland

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:14 pm
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www.mfa.gov.pl/en/news...earch=true

#85: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: bialy-r, Location: POLAND

Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:04 pm
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On the way to Poland

facet.interia.pl/galer...iAId,58557

#86: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: sil3nt, Location: Poznan, Poland

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:42 pm
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FT-17 is currently in Poznan, in our museum ...

picasaweb.google.com/1...zyjazdFT17

#87: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: the_shadock, Location: Normandy, France

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:21 am
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here is the question on a French forum about the Afghan FT transferred in Poland. The question is : could we identify the tank as being ex-Polish? It's in French but it could be easily translated.

http://pages14-18.mesdiscussions.net/pages1418/Pages-d-Histoire-Artillerie/Artillerie-Speciale-chars-d-assaut/renault-francais-pologne-sujet_615_1.htm

P-O

#88: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: JimWeb, Location: The back of beyond

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:27 pm
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There was a lot of discussion about these on the old AFV News forums. The conclusion was that they were FT17s sold to the US Army who gave them to the white russians in siberia c1920 who lost them to the communists who eventually gave them to the afghans.

There was a whole list of book references beyond my ability to remember.

#89: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: bialy-r, Location: POLAND

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:16 pm
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Some photos of Ft-17 in Poland

www.army.mil.pl/index....w-cytadeli

#90: Re: French and American FT-17 Author: Massimo_Foti, Location: Lugano, Switzerland

Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:21 pm
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Next step would be to make it looks like this one:

Renault FT-17 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

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