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The British Camera that was German! www.kameraostalgie.blog
Backup sight with direct mount to Eotech On Gun Laser.
Backup sight with direct mount to Eotech On Gun Laser.
Backup sight with direct mount to Eotech On Gun Laser.
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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
Those are re-enactors dressed up as American army infantrymen, often commonly known as “GIs” and carrying out a fictional re-enactment of a battle against the other re-enactors playing German soldiers. Two of them can be seen in the background, to the left of the photo.
The tank in the background is the M4A3E8 (76)W HVSS Sherman called Fury, you can see the photos of Fury here:
This was shot in colour, but I used Adobe Lightroom to convert it into black and white for a dramatic feel to it, and to suit the era.
The reason for giving those photos the title of “Achtung! Amerikaner!” is simply that, translated into English, it is kind of saying “Watch out! Americans!” Growing up during the 1970s and 1980s, I’ve often read action and war comics, sometimes see some Germans saying those in the speech bubbles.
The weather was really hot and sunny at that time, and I ended up with a sunburn.
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.”
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