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See post 22, this thread. The A1, A2... suffix has to do with which engine it uses, not what design/production generation it is. All the models were produced contemporaneously.

You're doing great work. As I was looking at the driveshaft cover parts, my first thought was 'well, at least there aren't any compound curves' followed by 'but those flanges and the bellhousing cover (or whatever that is) don't look like any fun at all.' Beautiful. I'm guessing there was...

Until DoctorCheney223's 'identify my Sherman' thread, I hadn't ever seen photos of a Sherman hull without anything in it. My only exposure to battle tanks in any detailed way until then was an M1 Abrams MBT I crawled over back in the '90s. It has been fascinating to compare the complex and...

Well, we are talking about historic military vehicles here. They all come wrapped in history, be it mundane (like a certain M38 jeep I know that probably never left CONUS) or famous, like a Sherman tank.

Churchill's memoir has a bitter story of this as well: When the Germans attack he flies to Paris to coordinate UK assistance of the defense, looks at the situation map at HQ and says, "Ou est la masse de manoeuvre?" (Where's the reserve force?). Gamelin answered, "Aucune." (There is none.)...