I have most of my tank collection sorted. Still a few that wont fit, and a few I'm working on. See if you can guess them all!
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Let's see what I can recall. The Grant tank was a pre-war design; developed in the expectation that the next war would have the same trench action as the previous one. British bought some, but with a redesigned turret an renamed the Lee. Some action in North Africa where the systems limitations became clear: the 37mm in the upper turret was weak and the 70mm in the sponson had too small a traverse. The under carraige was the precusor to the Sherman series, and when they stopped making Grant/Lee tanks, they modified the production line to produce the Priest self propelled artillery piece.
Under the Versielle treaty the Weimar Germans were sharply limited in weapons development. They secretly did much of their R&D in Russia. When Hitler took seized Czechoslovakia he gained the Skoda arms plants where many German vehicles were built during the war. At the opening of the war in the west, the Pzkw III was the main battle tank, with the Pzkw IV just coming down the assembly line. During the blitz of Holland and France, the germans did not have enough Pzkw III to go around, and used Pkzw II and Skodas to make up their numbers. There is a Pzkw II on the second shelf left of the halftrack, and a Skoda on the right. The Pzkw III and Pzkw IV remained the main units of the German army throughout the war, with Stug III and Stug IV as supplements when numbers ran low. The Panther, Tiger, and Tiger II, came out late in the war and were used primarily on the eastern front against the T34. The blocky appearance of the Pzkw IV and Tiger are similar enough that at long range many allied tankers thought they were fighting Tigers when actually they were fighting Pzkw IV.
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