Tanks dressed up as other tanks

[Andy in Cheltenham]

What about "Reign of Fire" it has an American Chieftain tank. Strange????!!!
There was the same Cheiftain tank in "Children of God" if I remember correctly.

Drives the wife mad if there is even the faint trace of a tank on TV, I have to name it.

[magmer]

Is 'Wheels of Terror' available on dvd? I read every Sven Hassel book when I was still at school ( a very long time ago) and I didn't know they made a film about it. I didn't know the Americans had Chieftain tanks either, you learn something every day on this forum.

[Abo]

Funny you should mention the Sven Hassel books, like you, I read everyone as a young kid and couldn't get enough, I thought they were awesome. I recently got the books out of the loft after forgetting all about them and started reading them again. After getting through 3/4 of my second book all I could think of was MEH! After 30 odd years of so called maturing and knowing a lot more about armour and WW2 than I did back then I couldn't believe how poor and inaccurate the books now seemed. I was hugely disappointed and carted the lot off to my local charity shop. Like your first girlfriend, just keep the fantasy, remember the good bits but DON'T go back!

[Glen B]

Funny you should mention the Sven Hassel books, like you, I read everyone as a young kid and couldn't get enough, I thought they were awesome. I recently got the books out of the loft after forgetting all about them and started reading them again. After getting through 3/4 of my second book all I could think of was MEH! After 30 odd years of so called maturing and knowing a lot more about armour and WW2 than I did back then I couldn't believe how poor and inaccurate the books now seemed. I was hugely disappointed and carted the lot off to my local charity shop. Like your first girlfriend, just keep the fantasy, remember the good bits but DON'T go back!

Yeah, My experience was similar, just over a little longer time span

As a kid, in 1968, I thought "Wheels Of Terror" was pretty much a historical document

Then, after decades of absorbing some more historical knowledge, I cam to the same realization that you did.

One of the many obvious items was, if a unit like that described in the book really existed, they would not have been issued Tiger I's as claimed; the Tigers would have been a rare and costly asset that mostly went to well known Herr and SS Panzer formations.

[Piotr1974]

JagdPanther an the chasiss T54 from reneactors team in Poland


Tiger from Czech



I cant find pictures, my friend from Engand, making German tank replica an the chasiss FV432....

[oz]

the walking dead used a chieftain dressed as an M1A1.

[oz]

strange but true............the military vehicles in the sci-fi movie Mars Attacks! are all Russian and European. This is because the film was denied backing by the real-life military, apparently the pentagon said they weren't happy that the Indian Love Call song was depicted as being more effective at defeating the Martians than the military.

[Andy in Cheltenham]

A T55 Tiger anyone. OK it's not a film but a bit form a documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3slnEXO ... re=related

[mini_bolo]

Well, it's not a "substitute" per se, but it is a tank dressed up like another tank. I give you the Ersatz M10






It's a Panther dressed up to look like a M10 Tank Destroyer. The Germans intended to use them with a fake American force during the Battle of the Bulge, but for one reason or another that particular plan was shelved. They did end up being used, but during normal assaults.

[panzerschreck]

In "Mosquito Squadren", shortly after the mozzies bomb the prison excercise hall and the POWs leg it, an M3 Stuart tank rocks up, pretenting to be a Tiger I, replete with mock 88mm (plastic drain pipe ) barrel and muzzle break