TANKFEST: The WWII Russia Tank
File: 2023007-1007
Kuwait Arena, at The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
This is a guest tank appearing at The Tank Museum during the 2023 TANKFEST event.
It is a Soviet built T-34-85 medium tank, and used mainly by the Soviet Red Army against the Germans, during the Second World War.
The tank seen in the photograph, was built around 1945, and took part in the Battle for Berlin in the closing stages of the Second World War. The white strip on the turret was for identifying purpose.
It was later transferred over to the Czech Army, and around 1970-71, they rebuilt this tank for a contract with the Egyptian Army, but the contract was cancelled, so this very tank was put into storage at the Czech Army Reserve base until around 1989.
It was bought and imported to the United Kingdom, by a museum or a re-enactment organisation called Cobbaton Combat Collection.
It is Cobbaton Combat Collection’s T-34, painted with the number 146 on the turret, that is seen here, making a guest appear at the event.
The T-34 was designed around between 1937-1940, and produced around 1940 to 1946 in what was then known as USSR. A total of about 84,000 were built, including 48,000 of them as the T-34-85 variant.
The T-34-85 models were fitted with a 85mm gun, carried a possible number of 60 rounds, weighted around 35 tons, with approximately up to 935 L fuel tanks, giving a possible road range of up to 300 miles or a cross country range of up to 193 miles.
(Information according to various sources.)
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
You are free and welcome to comment on my photograph, about the photograph itself, or about the subject in the photo, or about your similar experience. The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard to promote any Groups. If you want to promote the groups, do it in YOUR own Photo Page or YOUR own Photostream!
TANKFEST: The WWII Russia Tank
File: 2023007-1007
Kuwait Arena, at The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
This is a guest tank appearing at The Tank Museum during the 2023 TANKFEST event.
It is a Soviet built T-34-85 medium tank, and used mainly by the Soviet Red Army against the Germans, during the Second World War.
The tank seen in the photograph, was built around 1945, and took part in the Battle for Berlin in the closing stages of the Second World War. The white strip on the turret was for identifying purpose.
It was later transferred over to the Czech Army, and around 1970-71, they rebuilt this tank for a contract with the Egyptian Army, but the contract was cancelled, so this very tank was put into storage at the Czech Army Reserve base until around 1989.
It was bought and imported to the United Kingdom, by a museum or a re-enactment organisation called Cobbaton Combat Collection.
It is Cobbaton Combat Collection’s T-34, painted with the number 146 on the turret, that is seen here, making a guest appear at the event.
The T-34 was designed around between 1937-1940, and produced around 1940 to 1946 in what was then known as USSR. A total of about 84,000 were built, including 48,000 of them as the T-34-85 variant.
The T-34-85 models were fitted with a 85mm gun, carried a possible number of 60 rounds, weighted around 35 tons, with approximately up to 935 L fuel tanks, giving a possible road range of up to 300 miles or a cross country range of up to 193 miles.
(Information according to various sources.)
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
You are free and welcome to comment on my photograph, about the photograph itself, or about the subject in the photo, or about your similar experience. The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard to promote any Groups. If you want to promote the groups, do it in YOUR own Photo Page or YOUR own Photostream!