Finally saw Is Paris Burning- tanks?

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Jim Atkins - 16 Aug 2005 03:21 GMT

Watched this with my dad Thursday night. Pretty good film cinematically,
shot with a lot of hand-held cameras so it looks very documentary. Couldn't
tell what kind of tanks they were using for the Germans. Anybody know?

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kim - 16 Aug 2005 04:14 GMT

> Watched this with my dad Thursday night. Pretty good film cinematically,
> shot with a lot of hand-held cameras so it looks very documentary.
> Couldn't tell what kind of tanks they were using for the Germans. Anybody
> know?

From IMDB.com

"The "German" Tanks were American built M-28 Walker Bulldogs with armor
plates welded on."

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Gerald Owens - 16 Aug 2005 04:32 GMT

Most of the German armor was based on dummy hulls and turrets mounted
on M24 Chaffees to resemble (really, really small) Panther tanks. They
even had zimmerit paste! The front mounted drive sprocket is evidence
that they were not M41 Walker Bulldogs. Some of the French armor was
also built on this chassis, notably a mocked up M10 tank destroyer
which rams one of the "Panthers." Most of the tanks shown with
Leclerc's advancing Free French forces are Shermans, but M4A1 and
M4A1E8 types supplied to France shortly after the war to replace their
original diesel-powered M4A2 Shermans, which were worn out after months
of hard fighting.

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Finally saw Is Paris Burning- tanks?