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| Subject: | Re: I reckon it's a length of pipe |  |
| Date: | Nov 17, 2005 |
| From: | Ken Adolphe | |
Hi,
Israel certainly used Cromwells, apparently stolen from the British in the late 1940s. When the Jordanians upgraded to Centurions, they gave a number of Charioteers (Cromwell with a 20 pounder) to the Lebanese which were later used by the PLO against the Israelies.
If you go to this website, you can see a picture of the same tank. You can also see a picture of a Cromwell next to a Merkava. Although the picture is poor quality, you can see the way the gun attaches to the turret is completly different.
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/Palestine-Israel/Palestine-Israel.html
I suspect the museum tank has a fake gun. |
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