Track identification for WWII movie

 You and your bro's stay safe, brother Dan. I don't remember the tanks right now, but someone will come along and tell you. During the holidays, know that you are not forgotten. All my love to my fellow vets !!

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I believe they were Russian T-34's mocked up as tigers. But i'm not sure, as I am more of an aircraft guy and i dont know much about armor. I just remember hearing that someplace. Best of luck to you boys over there. Know that there are a bunch of us over here suporting you. And that contrary to popular beliefs and stereotypes there are still many millions of us that appreciate what you're all doing. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!

 Steve

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The Tigers were build up on T-34 Chassis, with upper hull, deck and turret being built up to look like a Tiger (just compare the running gear on those with photos of T-34s, it's identical).

The Shermans, if I'm not mistaken, were the Sherman Firefly. 

That's such a great movie.  My wife hates war movies, but watched that with me a while back and loved it!!! 

 Hey, any movie that they put a Hank Williams Jr. song in can't be too bad. Even if he did sing it about 25 years or so after WWII!!

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Sounds like a cool project.

As stated the tanks are T34 chassis with a Tiger build up on the upper hull. The cool thing in if you look close enough, the smoke dischargers are in the right place and in some of the close up shots you can see the zimmerit. The movie was filmed in Yugoslovia (Bosnia/Herzegovina) and the Shermans were supplied by the Yugoslovian army since they were still using them well into the 70's.

One of the other things you'll see is the sniper team in the bell tower is using a a Russian Moisin Nagant M91/30 PU rifle . While a neat piece of trivia not likely for a US unit in France in this period.

Not much I can add - the chaps have answered everything - I was going to build the dio a few scenes later, where  the 3 Americans confront the SS Sgt on Foot - couldnt get the figures in Australia though- still looking.  The pleasing part of the movie was that they were able to make the Tigers look like Tigers, compared to "Patton" which came out about the same time, where all the DAK Panzers look like American M60's with a coat of paint and some crosses painted on.

renarts wrote:

Sounds like a cool project. As stated the tanks are T34 chassis with a Tiger build up on the upper hull. The cool thing in if you look close enough, the smoke dischargers are in the right place and in some of the close up shots you can see the zimmerit. The movie was filmed in Yugoslovia (Bosnia/Herzegovina) and the Shermans were supplied by the Yugoslovian army since they were still using them well into the 70's. One of the other things you'll see is the sniper team in the bell tower is using a a Russian Moisin Nagant M91/30 PU rifle . While a neat piece of trivia not likely for a US unit in France in this period.

Yes, I was very impressed with the "accuracy" of the Tigers in that movie; a lot of movies will, as mentioned above, simply give an M26 or an M48 a coat of Dunkelgrau & call it a Tiger. Somebody obviously did their homework for that movie, right down to the location of the radiator grills and the exhaust pipes. Made you realize just how imposing a Tiger could be at close range, even 60 years later.

Sorry- Cant belive I said M60 - I meant M48.