D-Day Museum
Meet 'Vera', a tank in the D-Day Museum. Some info from the website:
A Sherman Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle (BARV), nicknamed 'Vera', War Department No. T145523. The BARV was a converted Sherman Mk.III, M4A2 tank. This particular tank was originally built in 1943 as a regular gun tank. Markings on the hull suggest that its parts were produced in a modular fashion by several different companies and then assembled together. It was produced with "LO", a type of steel particulary adapted to cast large pieces of armor. The tank was assembled at Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio as part of contract S/M 1012 for the British Government. The hull (part number E4151) was built by American Steel Foundries East St. Louis (Illinois) Works, and the bogies were made by several companies including the Continental Foundry & Machine Company of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. It's exact wartime history is not known, but it is known that a relatively small number of BARVs were converted. It has been given the markings of a beach recovery section of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
D-Day Museum
Meet 'Vera', a tank in the D-Day Museum. Some info from the website:
A Sherman Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle (BARV), nicknamed 'Vera', War Department No. T145523. The BARV was a converted Sherman Mk.III, M4A2 tank. This particular tank was originally built in 1943 as a regular gun tank. Markings on the hull suggest that its parts were produced in a modular fashion by several different companies and then assembled together. It was produced with "LO", a type of steel particulary adapted to cast large pieces of armor. The tank was assembled at Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio as part of contract S/M 1012 for the British Government. The hull (part number E4151) was built by American Steel Foundries East St. Louis (Illinois) Works, and the bogies were made by several companies including the Continental Foundry & Machine Company of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. It's exact wartime history is not known, but it is known that a relatively small number of BARVs were converted. It has been given the markings of a beach recovery section of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.