Goliath tracked mine---

[BIGMIG]

When I look at this Goliath tank it is so simular in appearence to the WWI Mark V tank when looking at these old pictures.Hey tackleberry next time take some tools with you and open that little guy up and lets have a look at the internals.   ;D

                            Larry 

[septon]

here guys take a look at this http://www.battletanksnederland.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3043&sid=7dba727e55f47ce7177d467ee2b6931b

[Tackleberry]

Fun thing is i had a mulit tool in my bag.
i wonder how long it would of taken befor any one noticed it lying in bits.

[daviddunlop]

Next time I am at the Ft Garry museum, I will take some photos of their Goliath for posting.

Taking another look at the initial photo, I don't think the soldiers are Canadian. The collars on the Battle Blouses look too 'soft'. The Cdn khaki serge was typically a much heavier weight than the British material. The soldier on the left looks like he is wearing a leather gunner's jerkin over his battle blouse and I am not sure what type of rifle is being carried by the second soldier from the left. The muzzle looks funny. Is it a bayonet with scabbard?

The place looks like a vehicle boneyard. The DUKW seems too low to the ground and in some state of disassembly. Between it and the AEC is another hulk of some sort with stuff piled on/in it, and close to the barbed wire fence back of the left guys head is another smaller pile of 'junk'. Finally off in the upper right corner is what appears to be the burned hulk of a jeep. A white star is just visible on the back of it and the whole thing looks rather sooty.

Wonder if they were all part of some sort of 'Tidy Up Detail' They all look pretty relaxed and maybe the AEC was being used to haul  wrecks to this location.

Could the framework pole in the background be a telephone or hydro pole? If so, can anyone recognize the 'nationality' of it? That might narrow down where the photo was taken if credit info was lacking with the original.

David

[BIGMIG]

Well I have been searching around a bit seeing what all I could find on the "goliath" tracked vehicle.

Found quite a few pictures but a lot of the sites are in German  ( I don't speak or understand German).

I looked up    (    sprengpanzer " Goliath "  ) and that is how I found a couple of sites with the pictures I'll post here.

Going to post the pictures but not all the captsions that went with them.



Going to post again the first picture I started this post with and "note"---- I found this same picture in several different locations.

  (1) they all refer to the troops pictured as British troops.  ??
  (2) Another of this same picture says---        " British soldiers with captured
                                                                  german goliath remote-controlled
                                                                  demolition vehicle ( battle of
                                                                  normandy  1944 )  "

  Here is that picture again----------

                                                  Larry 

[BIGMIG]

Will continue on posting these pictures in a bit----Going to gather them up and put them in a folder to make posting easyer for me---

                              Larry 

[BIGMIG]

More pictures--


                          Larry 

  P.S.    notice in the 5 th picture it looks like someone washed and was drying their socks.---
    And the bottom picture there was a refference to "Russland"---Don't know if that is the German way to say Russia.  Mabe someone will know by the uniforms being wore in the picture.  ??

[BIGMIG]

And more pictures that looked like from the assembly plant,and what looks to be some of these on an assembly area.Notice in the one picture the hole vissible in the bottom middle of most of these photo's
of this vehicles was used to support these vehicles during assembly-- (I think thats what I'm seeing ).

                                  Larry 

[BIGMIG]

And still a few more ----------


                Larry 

[BIGMIG]

And in todays world------evolution----evolved from-----