What Happened to All of the M4 Shermans and T-34 Tanks after World War II?
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Be they trundling through the mud of Western Europe, kicking up dust on the plains of North Africa or forging a path through the snow of the Eastern Front; the tank defined the war on land between 1939 and 1945. When the war ended and all sides began to disarm they found themselves with literally tens of thousands of now-surplus tanks in their inventories. Many of these war machines inevitably found themselves on the business end of a scrapper’s torch as they were broken up, melted down and remade in to the trinkets of peacetime but equally, huge numbers of these proven, modern and widely available machines were now being eyed by other armies around the world as a way of quickly and relatively cheaply modernising their own tank units. As a result, for many of these tanks, combat was far from over. This is the story of how two of the most iconic tanks of World War II went back into the fray with owners old and new, time and time again, long after they should have been confined to the history books. They were the American M-4 Sherman and the Soviet Union’s T-34, and this is their incredible story. Welcome to Wars of the World.
0:00 Introduction
1:48 The Sherman and the T-34
5:05 The Aftermath of World War II
6:53 Korea
9:56 The Paris Putsch
12:11 The Fight for the Holy Land
16:36 The Cuban Revolution and Nicaragua
18:25 Vietnam
19:23 The Battle for Cyprus
21:15 Angola
23:46 The Break-Up of Yugoslavia
26:51 The New Millennium
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Here is a fact for you all...the Sherman variants were still around in service in the mid 70s in Europe! There were hundreds stored out of sight, by NATO...all fully serviced and ready to go in case of war with the Soviet Union. It was only revealed when the WW2 war movie...A Bridge Too Far was made and released in the late 70s...in the scenes where the actor Michael Caine leads a great number of tanks...they were all loaned from the NATO storage facilities to fulfil the role!
I knew that one and it really is a testament to the great design of the M4 that it stayed in service for so long. Also that even when up against newer more advanced armor it did fairly well.
Such a shame those tanks weren’t used to make the movie “Patton”
@@davidfusco6600 ikr well its still really good
I have seen that movie 50+ times lol, I always asked myself how they got all that material :)
@@davidfusco6600 No kidding... Seeing those Pattons in German markings was rough.
It's always amazing where these tanks ended up. One of my work comrades ended up in Somalia many years ago to work a contract (back it actually had a functioning government). While driving around the back end of an airfield to set a repair facility (abandoned since the 60's) he found a collection of old armored vehicles. Among them was several Russian tanks (T-34/85), several British tanks (including a Cromwell), some armored cars, and a lone Sherman tank. He asked his military liaison how these tanks got here there and the guy just shrugged. No clue at all. Later in Egypt he ran into the same situation finding an old storage yard near their worksite with everything from a German Mark IV to a captured Israeli Super-Sherman and of course lots of Russian T-55's, T-62's, and even a few old T-34's. His military liaison was a tanker commander during the 67 and 73 Egypt-Israeli Conflicts and told him all about the tanks and their history. The guy obviously loved tanks and was very enthusiastic on the subject.
That was interesting, thank you.
My parents used to take me and my friend to a welded down sherman tank at the local park to play with and climb over...im pretty sure thats what made me a ww2 buff
Hamilton, Ma?
@@Grandizer8989 Tarentum PA...it was a lot of fun..you could crawl down the hatch and sit in the drivers seat..if im not mistaken i think its still there and this was about 40yrs ago!
@@dannyboy2750 if you’re talking about Patton Park in Hamilton, yup! Just got a new paint job too.
Sick
@@dannyboy2750 ive been there too!!
When I was a teenager in Ohio in the early seventies, a neighboring farmer had a surplus Sherman. The turret had been removed but he used his tank as utility vehicle around his farm.
cool
That was a great engine. Pity more of them were not removed and used for civilian purposes. I once saw a large-block truck engine on a farm sitting on a pedestal under an open-walled shed out in a field. They fired it up rarely but used it to drive an irrigation pump, I think.
Some surplus tanks were used to demolish houses here after the War but ended up in the basement !
Imagine driving a Buick from the 50's knowing it's made out of a Sherman 😎
imagine it also has its shells behind it
Think about all of the 50’s aluminum cups and plates that were made out of B17’s and B24’s.
I want to buy one.
That's why when a 1950's Buick gets in a fender bender it gets a scratch and the other car is totaled.
@@JohnDoe-ee6qs PMSL..!
Many Shermans were converted for other uses such as tractors, and logging cranes. A good number of them are still puttering around. There are plenty of pictures of them on the Internet.
see if you can find these videos. sounds interesting
My Maternal grandfather had a converted Sherman. He didn't keep it long though, it was too expensive to maintain.
Many old tanks where used for target practice
altough the gasoline powered radial engine of the sherman is really expensivbe to maintain due to being radial and just gulps down a ridiculous amount of fuel.
and the aluminium engine of the T-34 doesn't last for obvious reasons.
Bro not even kidding like here in the benelux area its quite easy finding them scattered around at places that preserve them :d also a crap ton of bunkers n old ruins etc
I know when I was traveling in Russia and Belarus there were t34s in about every city on display as a tribute and lots in museums througout the region. These machines were an amazing achievment. cool fact: the transmissions were so hard to shift they carried a piece of wood to beat the lever to engage the gears. Heard that from a veteran t34 driver I met at a ww2 museum there.
Fun fact: City of Kharkiv has History Museum (even metro station named after it), as an expat outside it has some soviet field howitzers, T-34-85 and… Mark V, that was brought there from Denikin’s White Army during Russian Civil War
We all know German build way more advance and superior quality machinery and engineering than everyone in the world…..but then that also their downfall……totally unnecessary of over- engineered on everything……so, from a simple household item, automobile to a tank or airplane, when it comes to servicing or repairing time…..parts, procedures, processes, cost are all terribly hard……
I heard during the war, they just sawed off the metal for the gear shifter, and left it like that, absolutely no finish at all. Did not even file it down. Not one iota of work or time that wasn't necessary for it to fulfill it's prime purpose.
@West Park A lot of countries employed similar weapons.
@West Park I was referring to generic ATRs. Britain used one too.
T-34: wanna destroy Panzer?
Sherman: *S h e r m a n*
LOL
*lmao yes*
Such a great Documentary! Thank you!
My dad was a Commander of a M 4 Sherman through Italy and he loved his Tank, it was powered by a GAA V8 Ford engine! It was amazing! 18 Litres of Ford Muscle, it was specifically designed for the Sherman and had an Alloy Engine with Stromberg Garburators! it developed just over 550 hp but with lots of torq! Here in New Zealand he only drove a Ford and I think we should almost go back to those Values! I miss him! Go the USA and Go New Zealand and our Aussie mates!
There was a construction company around the corner from my house and they used a sherman as a demolition tractor. I coul see the turret above the fence and peer through a hole to see the whole tank. Many times after school I would ask the workers if I could get a closer look at it but they always told me their boss wouldn't allow it. I just wanted to touch it!
The US also used many Sherman's as targets for bombing targets & on other ordnance ranges. There are currently many m60 tanks on ranges right now.
I fired an AT-4 at an old M-60 tank while I was in the army
That is a fact David.While doing gunnery on the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank,I have shot what we called hard targets.They were old M-60 tanks that were obsolete .A huge mushroom cloud would roll off of them when they were hit.
Not only shermans. I shot TOWS at m103s at Fort Drum. Felt bad since only a few were ever made and they were the last heavies to be developed before MBTS came around
One of the museums I went to had a M4A3 105 that was used as an A-10 gun run target, still has the damage
I think there are still some in reserve.
One of the most interesting historic videos on American and Russian Tanks available.
Five-Star Rating!!!
Meanwhile, half of all the panzers:
The British : uhm, lets scrap it
Don’t blame them lol. Britain being Britain in the 1940’s-50’s scrapped everything they can get their hands on and were being cheapskates when it came to Steel and many other things.
a bunch of the panzers where bought up by none other than syria at one point
@@SOUNDWAVEPR yeah Britain should have kept the German tanks so war buffs could look at them 70 years later. Instead of waiting their time rebuilding their cities and providing universal health care. 70 years later and the US still can't afford that.
@@donrobertson4940Afford Universal healthcare? In truth, neither can the U.K.
@@donrobertson4940 "Affordable healthcare" meaning "dogshit you're forced to pay for"
The NHS is goddamn catastrophe and the only reason Brits support it is because most of you have never experienced high-quality healthcare like we have in the US. The fact that wealthy Brits pay for private healthcare ought to tell you something
Wonderful documentary. Thank you for making it!
In Poland until the recent push to remove Soviet Era ww2 memorials there were many old t34 tanks and assorted artillery pieces scattered around cities. Great things to play on as a kid.
There is perfectly kept M4 (Emcha/Sherman) between a T34 and a IS2 at Mocow's Victory park. It has always been in that place of honor no matter the current political climate.
What a t 34 I would love to see that 😍
A T34 got blown up on my grandmother's farm outside of Gdynia, Poland in the spring of 1945. Most of the tank was scrapped but the wheels and portions of the track remain to this day and flank the walkway leading to a cherry orchard behind the barn, along with a bunch of 76mm shell casings hurried in the ground and used as steps at the end of the walkway.
Sure bud....nice attempt at a cool little story though bravo 👏
They weren't kidding when they said a Buick is built like a tank.
When I was a kid in the 60's adults it was ... " Those tanks are built like Buicks !!" There were a few cars that came close to the shape of the first tanks of WW1. Could have been Buick related also... :)))
I remember that a few T-34 tanks were in Vietnam in the summer of 1968. The attack on BanMeTuit that summer is where we were shocked when the T-34s showed up. Also much of the take over of the south in 1974 saw the T-34 in action again. We were never effective against these Russian tanks and it was a surprise when they faced us.
Wow, that is amazing. I had an uncle who served in the Korean War and said he wasn’t scared of the North Koreans at all, he was scared of the t 34’s.
Indeed
Those tank are truely terrified because it's so hard to completely destroy it except you blow it into pieces
Reliable,good mobility, and easy to repair
Even if you blow its turret up the engineer will just simply put another turret on and it's good as new.
I've heard that shit tonnes of ww2 weaponry ended up in the middle East.
Everything from Sturmgewehrs to T-34s.
And You-know-who has them all.
Or had... they're not too powerful nowadays.
Wait u were in Vietnam war?
The Israelis used up-gunned “Super Sherman’s” they got from France in the 1968 war that held their own against the most modern soviet tanks fielded by the Egyptians at the time.
In the 1990's and 2000's I always thought it was funny to see a t-34 still being used with my own eyes. But, a tank is a tank, especially if you are on foot.
Sadam's Forces showed that an immobile tank is a gun emplacement when buried up to the turret in the desert...
@@davidhollenshead4892 what's funny, I was blowing those tanks up or other ones we found on the side of the road. We were actually seeing who could blow them up using the least amount of explosives. That is damaging the engine block, popping the turret and bending or cutting the barrel. The 5 ton truck all we needed was a claymore. But the T72's we had to make shape charges for the engine, a counter force charge for the barrel and well to pop the turret, we used over kill. Point all the rounds inside facing down and wrap them a few times with detonation cord.
Certian countries still use SU100 till this day
@@shermanfirefly5410 That 100mm gun is a nasty thing to be on the receiving end of
If all you got is a rifle, then any tank is a problem.
I didn't realize just how tall the Sherman tank actually is. I can imagine how difficult it would be to hide the silhouette and camouflage a group of Sherman's.
Wow dude! That was amazing! I can't believe how complete this story was, you did great research and editing. Thank you so much for this, it was easy to watch and the narration was very good. Subscribed now 😊
Why am I finding this channel just now? This is G O L D
Exactly what I thought after check the channel.
I remember when I visited the Intrepid in New York back in the 90s, there was a Sherman sitting on the pier. I'd never seen one before. Just assumed it was an old derelict on display when I heard the engine roar to life and then it started moving. That was cool.
There are hubdreds of Shermans scattered over the sea bed just north of Ireland in 100 - 150m of water. There are some near Killybegs too, sometimes visible from the surface. A torpedo-damaged ship nearly made it to the port.
If i remember right people are looking to bring them out due to the steel being free of radionuclides, its called low Background steel.
@@VxCobraGaming There is a considerable amount of lead down there too, and the same applies.
The respect you give these tanks in your opening statements deserves an instant thumbs up sir.
Great video found a lot of useful historical information. Amazing that these vehicles have had such a long run.
So much research and production value! I love this channel, I feel the quality as surpassed the main Top 5s channel. Thank you for these videos! I hope this channel will continue to grow, if the algorithm would care more about good content like this..
I remember seeing hundreds of Sherman’s stored at Camp Zama’s General Depot near Fuchinobe, Japan in 1960.
That's cool man... were you in a plane or on the ground when you first saw them? Just trying to picture that lol
Yad La-Shiryon (officially: The Armoured Corps Memorial Site and Museum at Latrun, Central Israel , is Israel's official memorial site for fallen soldiers from the armoured corps, as well as one of the most diverse tank museums in the world has an AMAZING collection of Sherman variants on display
free palestine from isreal
i meant isn'treal
@@danishnaufal5432 Really cause 193 UN member countries recognize Israel. and west bank is free but i do agree isreal army needs to leave it.
@@danishnaufal5432 you mean free gaza from israel
palestine is already free
if it was up to me id make gaza a republic like they did with donetsk and luhansk in ukraine
@@danishnaufal5432 the Danes are going to throw you out one day achmed
Great video and very interesting. I had forgotten about many of these conflicts.
In the late 60 we stayed at a roadside motel in Florida that had a Sherman out front. My brother and I had an absolute blast playing in it.
In the film The Intruder, starring Jack Hawkins, he goes through a hedge after his golf ball and encounters a field of Sherman tanks actually being cut up for scrap.
Encountered the remains of a number of Shermans on the ranges used as targets at the tank range in Meaford, Ontario and Camp Borden, Ontario.
Always a good start of the Weekend. 🙂
Always Excellent...Great job folks!!
Lots of effort put into telling the story! good job. liked and subscribed. keep up the good work
First time watching one of your videos. WOW! What a history lesson!! I have learned a ton of old history. Thank you for sharing!
Tanks for the memories.
As requested, my own thoughts:
Great video, thanks for sharing! Would love to see smiliar videos featuring other types of heavy machinery such as planes and ships or also small arms, like the use of ww2 weapons (such as the Stg44 found in the IS arsenal) in recent combat in Syria.
Thanks mate, left a sub
I just found your channel. I love finding small channels like this. your content is absolutely brilliant! well done
That was a tremendous walkthrough of modern history. Good job and thank you. 1st time to see your channel. I subscribed and liked. Happy Trails
All the M4s were parked individually in front of every VFW post and Armory....lol
T-34's are still in service today in some african countries.
Panzer IV's were used right up to 1974
m4's got rebuilt many times and used right up to the 1980's
The last "active" combat shermans were retired in 2018. Oh yes, Paraguay operated shermans right up to a few years ago.
Nice! Good watch, very informative! Thnx!
Truly a great video very eye opening thank you for putting it on
Outstanding!!!! I love this channel
Check out Mark Felton
If do you want to find Shermans just looked at VFW “watering holes” and usually there is one parked in front onto a concrete slab. At one place in my town there is a Sherman and at the other place is a piece of artillery. Some were also bought as surplus and used as tractors and one was used for demolitions of old buildings. They would drive it through old buildings to collapsed them.
WHat tank I would liked to have is a M3 Stuart (honey) light reconnaissance tank.
Absolutely! VFW are great places to check out some old gear. The one closest to me has a F4 Phantom, a Sherman and a Huey!
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Cool beans. I would liked to see it a Phantom F-4 uped close. Can you get ined to the cockpit of that one? THAT would be awesomed!
@@jacobsparry8525 And to think some day Abrams and F22's will be on those pedestals.
Enjoyed watching this review .... thank you for your work
How have I not seen this channel before???? Great content, great editing, easy to watch, and chock full of information I didn't know about!!! Liked and subbed immediately!!!!
Fun fact: The last-known battles between the German PzIV and PzIV(D), and the American Shermans, was in the Middle East after World War II, between the Israeli Defense Forces and the Arab nations during the Six-Days War of 1967, where Israeli Shermans clashed with PzIVs and Stug-IV German assault guns.
If I ever win the lottery I will buy a Sherman and a Stug.
please don't, that's such a waste of money in my opinion.
@@Cattus_Maximus you can terrorize your neighbor with it
Wouldn't have to worry about traffic jams!! 😁👍
I'd buy a T-34, because you can buy one for something ridiculous like $30k USD. A fucking Communist tank is cheaper than a new mid-trim GT Mustang.
@@SCIFIguy64 Weren’t they having problems finding T-34s for the victory parade for the first time in ever last year?
Awesome presentation. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you!
Great video! Good work
Americans and Soviets to M4 Shermans and T-34 tanks: Were you killed?
M4 Shermans and T-34 tanks: Sadly, yes. But I lived!
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The T34s invincibility is a myth.
In Korea it was the early versions of the bazooka that had a hard time penetrating its Armour. The M9 bazooka could easily penetrate 11 inches of armour, but what they sent to Korea was the earlier M1A1 that was heavily overstocked, and in plentiful supply on Pacific Islands.
The same with the M4 version left laying around on Islands like Okinawa.
The M4 easy 8 could easily knock out the T34, and did once they arrived in Korea.
By the time the Korea War was over there were very few tanks available for the Chinese or the N Koreans. T34 or otherwise. The T34s had all been destroyed earlier, and the Ally tanks were largely unopposed.
The N Korean military had been almost entirely destroyed by the time China entered the war, and contributed little to no part in the rest of the war.
The bazooka would hit the t34 and the angled armor would redirect the rocket
@@scavulous6336 ,. The T34s invincibility is a myth.
In Korea it was the early versions of the bazooka that had a hard time penetrating its Armour. The M9 bazooka could easily penetrate 11 inches of armour, but what they sent to Korea was the earlier M1A1 that was heavily overstocked, and in plentiful supply on Pacific Islands.
The same with the M4 version left laying around on Islands like Okinawa.
The M4 easy 8 could easily knock out the T34, and did once they arrived in Korea.
By the time the Korea War was over there were very few tanks available for the Chinese or the N Koreans. T34 or otherwise. The T34s had all been destroyed earlier, and the Ally tanks were largely unopposed.
The N Korean military had been almost entirely destroyed by the time China entered the war, and contributed little to no part in the rest of the war.
Exactly..... The only reason the Korean war went so bad was macarthur was asleep at the wheel. Men were not supplied, trained, or led properly. Once equipped and led, they kicked ass... But the political battle was lost by then.
A great video!! The topic is thoroughly covered I'm now a new subscriber!
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Very good! For info, Cypriot is pronounced 'SIPriot'. During the segment on Yugoslavia you showed a picture of WW2 Italian soldiers a couple of times.
WELL HERES AN EYE OPENER DIDENT KNOW THEY WENT ON SO LONG THANKS FROM SCOTLAND .
Great video! I learned a lot. Thank you.
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I love it keep it up greetings from Philippines💕
That was amazing! Keep up the great work!
Amazing work, great informative content
Wow! What an outstanding video!
A question I didn’t know I wanted answered
A lot of ingenuity went into making the “Ripcord” a mobile Howitzer. I believe anyway.
well done, great video
I really loved the attention to detail in this video. Keep it up!
These and the English Churchills where universal masterpieces so many attachments different variants fit for any occasion brilliant
yea, the Churchill got upgunned heavily and ended up with the a43 black prince prototype
Fastastic presentation! Thank you. Many of these motorized armored cannons I heard were driven into swamps or lakes as a way to quickly dispose of these marvelous machines. Today, there are a plethora of these tanks being pulled out of the morass they are found in.
@Ronald Hinton Agreed. Every once and a while I see some enterprising group trying to drag one of these iron heaps out. They are often surprised to find save, for the water and mud, the beast is in great condition with with ammo as boot.
Awesome video, hope there are many more to come. In '96, was deployed to Bosnia, and seen between 15 to 20 T-34's stored at depot, still ready for use. At the time, could not believe what I was seeing.
Great topic and great video! I have often thought about the surplus of airplanes, tanks, ships, etc. Every now and then I see pictures of the mothball fleet, perhaps more videos about those topics would be very interesting.
29:20 - "soviets operated a few of the early model shermans in the beginning of the war" - no, the Soviets certainly had no Shermans in the beginning of the war. The first lend-lease shipment arrived in 1942, and there's no record of any M4s in the Soviet hands prior to this. The mid-war production models (not the early models) were shipped to the USSR until June 1945; the last batch came after the VE but was later used against the Kwantung Army.
Really, you’re arguing over semantics? Many people consider 1942 to be the early part of the war. Just seems like you’re nitpicking.
@@FirstnameLastname-do1px Probably so. For me, "beginning" is a point in time.
This script really could have used some fact checking as there are numerous errors and omissions present. In regards to the history of the M4, the French did not use them in Algeria and their use in Indochina was very limited. In general, the French preferred using light tanks such as the M-24 Chaffee in those conflicts. The Vietnamese did have Chinese Type 58 tank, but these were not built by the Chinese. Type 58 was the Chinese designation for Soviet built T-34/85 tanks that they adapted for Chinese service. The video really skims over the M4 in Indian and Pakistani service, a topic which deserves more coverage due to the fact that this was one of the few instances in the post war period of M4 tanks being used in tank on tank combat. The section on Israeli and Egyptian use also deserves more coverage than it gets since it includes four separate wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973). The video neglects to mention that M4 tanks were handed over from Israel to the Christian Militias in Lebanon where they saw some service. The Israeli M4 with the french 105 mm gun was designated M51, not "Super Sherman." Yugoslavia received many M4A3E4 tanks, although there is little evidence that any of these saw combat in the 1990's, although the M36 tank destroyer, which was derived from the M4 chassis, most certainly did. The M4 saw extensive service in several South American countries, including Peru, Paraguay, Argentina and Chile. The Argentine M4 tanks are rather interesting in that Argentina upgraded them substantially, calling them the Repotenciado. As far as other combat uses of the M4 and T-34, both types of vehicle were used by Uganda and may have seen combat in their 1978 war with Tanzania. Also worth mentioning are the many civilian uses that Sherman tanks were put to in the post war period. Aside from scattered examples of conversion into farm tractors, a good many M4 tanks were converted into logging yarder machines.
A facts verse indeed.Thanks for the additional info.
Possibly was also used by Iraq in invasion of Kuwait in 1990, as I saw later on displayed
the "Super Sherman" was the chilean one with the 60mm HVMS gun.
The Version with the 60mm gun was designated as "M-60". Back in the 1950's when Israel got M4 Sherman tanks with the US 76mm gun turret, they designated these as "M-1." When an M-1 also had the HVSS suspension and wider track, it was referred to as a Super Sherman. These predated the later M-50 and M-51 upgrades. And while all these tanks got referred to often as Super Shermans in the media or Western books, the Israeli writers who have written on the history of the M4 is Israeli service use "Super Sherman" to refer to the M-1 with HVSS suspension.
VERY interestink....cool vid. I like stories of weaponry used way beyond it's expiration date.
You really did your research, great video!
Ngl it feels a bit depressing knowing that there were potentially T-34's used in Berlin or Shermans that liberated concentration camps and European cities that may have just ended up as scrap metal or a wreck somewhere out in the world, used to fight in some war of independence/civil unrest.
What a sad little story.
There was alot of shermans in berlin being used by the soviets
Even worse, ex-Allied tanks sold to Syria then used against Israel..
@@ToreDL87 nobody cares about Israel
@@eodyn7
OK boomer.
But you don't mind caring when something happens down there anyway.
What you're saying is you don't care about the full scope of this topic, and since you don't, don't bother commenting either.
I made a jest towards the irony of it.
Israel > Jews (duh).
Tanks used to free concentration camps = Sold on to nations that wants to kill them.
10:27 To illustrate modern French tank design in the 1950s, a picture of WWI-era Renault tanks is shown. Is that really the best picture the video-maker could find?
Yes. Yes it was.
Excellent video with geat appeal, the subject was well covered with a professional dialogue.
Great Episode.
A Sherman or a t34 would be fun to play around with but what really cought my eye was that cuban sea fury! Now that would be worth dragging off of its pedestal and shipping home.
To try m
I bet Hemingway help them get that.
In one of the weirdest photos from 1999 Kosovo War, NATO Abrams and Serbian M36 Jackson were captured together, moving in different directions once NATO army entered Kosovo and Serbian army retreated. Jacksons were very useful because their barrels could be risen to crazy angles
This channel deserves way more views
Thanks for an excellent documentary, Wars of the World.
Wow I never thought that those tanks have operated that long in service.
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A lot of them are sitting in front of VFW’s and other community centers like a lions club.
Great video.
A well-researched documentary with some great supporting photography.
Thanks For The Information.. About What Happened To The Tanks After WWII Ends...
I'm Always Thinking About What Happened To The Tanks WWII...
Well Done, Mate And Great Video... ⭐
And I'm From Egypt And We Have A Museum In El Alamein, There A Lot of Stuffs of British Tanks And Axis Tanks From WWII, Weapons - Uniforms - Artillerys - Airplanes And More....
I've always wanted to go and check out The Pyramids & all the other beautiful ancient Egyptian landmarks and art as well as WWII memorial's.
I think I read about some WWI war memorial's but can't remember where !
Viscount Montgomery finally got some good Intel to break out of El Alamein
28:33 Another reason they did this was due to increased propellant in the brass. They did it in order to increase the range of the gun, but the downside was aforementioned possibility of gun exploding...
Another, not really use of T-34 was in 2006, during the protests in Hungary, I think... The protesters managed to start one T-34 from a museum and drove it to face the police. The tank was unarmed and soon abandoned, but caused quite a stir among the cops...
If I were a police officer I would be shitting enough bricks to put the Mexicans out of business when I see the protesters role up in a T34
US Army artillery sometimes uses extended lanyards with the M109A6 Paladin when firing shells with a 5H charge behind it. There is a limit per crew as to how many rounds can be fired before a recovery period is needed to reduce the risk of TBI.
Russians must've built almost 200,000 T-34's I bet
Year is 1956...
I really enjoyers this video. I loved the use of still photography. And I learnt a lot of things I had no idea about. I am in my 60s and yet I was enlightened so much. Thanks. 🇬🇧
This is an outstanding video!
Seen and touched M4 and T34
These tanks are on public display in Kalemegdan fortress in Belgrade Serbia
Along with various other designs active during ww2 era like the German Panzer 4 , Stug tank hunter
American Stewart Light tank
French Renault R35 and various other armored vehicles .
That was KALEMEGDAN fortress; Petrovaradin is in the city of Novi Sad! Tanks and canons are part of the Military museum exhibition...
@@Bokicazver Corrected my error ! thnx
Was that T-34 used in the 90s civil war?
@@ATruckCampbell Those in the fortress on display no . Those are original WW1 & WW2 machines tanks artillery transports scout vehicles mortars ... kept in original condition . Some of the gear however on public display inside the fortress have seen action like the ramp and rockets of the exact S125 NATO codename SA3 system that shot down the F117 nighthawk in 1999 .
I was going to say, what state are the gun barrels in after 70 years of gate guarding or sitting out somewhere in the desert? I'd be pretty leery of them too.
No rust in desert. Clean oil ready
Theres a video somewhere on UA-cam of Serbs using T-34s in combat in the 90s. One clip shows the crew taking safety precautions and firing the gun by pulling on a cord that went through the hatch while the crew stood outside.
@@schlookie Quite a few of them were used as mobile artillery all over Bosnia. Some of them had gym mats added to the sides and turret, to protect against HEAT rifle grenades that were ubiquitous in that war.
@@str8ballinSA I heard of T-34s with rubber on their bodies to protect against thermal signatures in those wars
@@m1a1abramstank49 None of the sides in that conflict used thermal devices, mostly 2nd generation "starlight" scopes... Biggest threat to tanks were RPGs (M80 and M79, both domestic, 90mm and 64mm rockets) and 9M14 Malyutkas.
After 1994 there was an increased threat of NATO areal attack on Serb forces - and given that Yugoslav army had AGM-65 Maverick (both TV and IR guidance), Serbs were aware of potential threat of IR-detection and guidance, so its possible that some of the masking after that time was due to that threat.
Excellent work
Excellent💯 video🎥👍
my uncle owns a T34 and a centurion AVRE, two very different beasts lol
Ye lol
Was that a Centurain Tank in Jesus Christ Superstar?
There are still a lot of Sherman's sitting in front of VFW's in the US. There is one sitting on Sunset drive. in Rittman Ohio 44270 rusting away that is a very complete tank someone should buy and restore.
Better memorial to let it rust and decay. I have seen dozens of those in my years. The look of abandonment brings the right note of the sadness and despair of war.
There is a nice Sherman tank in Kelowna BC Canada at the local military reserve armory. Seems to be in good shape.
@@Redmenace96 Why not keep it alive until the age of science-fiction? You know, flying cars, spaceships, and all that? That way, the future-future people will at least know
Brilliant video!That's a hell of a service life!
informative video , I learnt a lot