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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
 
About the photograph.

This tank is a M42 Chaffee, an American designed and manufactured light tank used in later stages of the Second World War. The tank seen in the photo, belongs to the Tank Museum, and that tank had been named Hemlock III.

The British used the M3 Stuart light tanks in North African, and found many disadvantages of the M3’s designs and performance, leading to the development of various different light tanks, eventually ending up with a project called Light Tank T24. 

The tank was designed in 1943, and was to use the Twin Cadillac Series 44T24 engines, rated at 220 hp, with an 8 speeds forward and 4 reverse transmission, giving it a possible maximum speed of 35 mph. The fuel capacity was 420 litres, offering a possible maximum range of 100 miles.

The gun was a 75mm M6 as it was considered to be better than the 37mm cannon on the M3 light tanks.

In October 1943, the first M42 tank were tested and found to be a success, so production started in 1944, and by the time the production ended in August 1945, there were over 4,700 units built.

The tanks saw combat in the European theater during WWII, and the Korean War in the 1950s.

In the photograph above, that one, named Hemlock III, was taking part in a re-enactment, and is seen entering the Kuwait Arena for a live show. Here it is seen flying the Union Flag / Union Jack on a radio aerial.
 
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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Taken in: UK / England / Purbeck District / Bovington Camp (show map)

Taken on: June 23, 2023

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