leetank

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mal's Best of the Best, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

The hand signals given by the Tank Commander and repeated by the Sponson Gunner are very important in controlling the movement of the tank units of the era. Even if all tanks in the unit had voice radio (I'm not sure if they did at this point), the reliability of the sets - when mounted in a shaking, bumping vehicle - was very low.

M3 "Lee" Medium Tank

A powerful looking photo of an almost worthless tank that was obsolete before it was ever built. It's saving grace was that these M-3's could be thrown together quickly to save the British in North Africa from being overrun by German tin cans. The M-3's did provide some useful training for our tank crews until the M-4 Shermans came along, and the chassis was adapted as a platform for the 105mm SP howitzer.

yo joe!!

Panzer fodder useless piece of junk, even the Russians could design much better tanks.

WOW! This whole series is unbelievable!!!

Grand Lee tank

this is gorgeous.

What kind of film and camera do you think he was using. Amazing for 1942 and even more amazing to see in 2009!

Pouletchalet, if you look at the larger size (All Sizes), you'll see "KODAK" on the right edge of the transparency. This is a 4x5" transparency, a format still used today. www.calumetphoto.com/1/3/4x5-transparency

Awesome shot!!! U have a great eye and the work you do on them is CRAZY !!!!