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Posted: 8/26/2016 9:25:08 PM EDT

Due to lack of visitors the Normandy tank museum is closing it's doors and selling off all of its vehicles and exhibits. Google images shows some amazing history there.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3755616/Your-chance-WWII-tank-French-museum-selling-historic-collection-didn-t-visitors.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-18/this-french-museum-can-sell-you-a-genuine-d-day-tank

I'll take this please

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:26:20 PM EDT

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Man that sucks.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:29:12 PM EDT

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That is a shame, I hope all those historical pieces find good homes

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:29:58 PM EDT

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My brother was there two weeks ago. I guess I'll never see it.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:31:39 PM EDT

[#4]

I'd love the HD WLA.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:31:40 PM EDT

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With it being in pussified Europe I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch isn't destroyed. .for the children.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:32:11 PM EDT

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The 1944 M4 Sherman tank

Price estimated by Artcurial: 250,000-400,000 euros ($280,000 to $450,000)

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The M4 was the most produced American tank during World War II, with 50,000 units made. It was nicknamed Sherman by the British–it was distributed through a U.S. war supply program to Allies including the British Commonwealth–after William Tecumseh Sherman, an American general in the Union Army during the U.S. civil war. This model was restored by the museum and is in running condition.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:33:37 PM EDT

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Maybe Danville Armour Museum has room.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:34:22 PM EDT

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Doing a Market Garden tour, I visited a Dutch museum and had a great conversation with the owner who was a resistance fighter that showed us the 1911 given to him by a US Army officer as proof he was working for the allies. He had all sorts of tanks & equipment, including a couple of Dakota's and was looking at selling the place since he was in his 80's. Sad to see such history lost.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:35:36 PM EDT

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I wish Littlefield was still alive. He'd have probably acquired preserved at least some of it.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:37:41 PM EDT

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They are also thinning out the collection at Anniston....all the excess will be chopped. MP-40's, Thompsons, etc etc...all the extra Army museum system weapons.....gone.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:39:47 PM EDT

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ARFCOM Group Buys?

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:40:21 PM EDT

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Due to lack of visitors the Normandy tank museum is closing it's doors and selling off all of its vehicles and exhibits. Google images shows some amazing history there.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3755616/Your-chance-WWII-tank-French-museum-selling-historic-collection-didn-t-visitors.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-18/this-french-museum-can-sell-you-a-genuine-d-day-tank

I'll take this please

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iY2hBlY9nyLY/v0/-1x-1.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/24/01/3786957800000578-3755616-image-a-24_1471999643076.jpg

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Went there on my honeymoon. Its a great museum,sucks they could not keep their doors open

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:41:23 PM EDT

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George Soros bought them all and is having them melted to support gun control.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:41:47 PM EDT

[#14]

WANT

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:47:08 PM EDT

[#15]

LST 325 up in Evansville could really use a Sherman or 4....

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:49:04 PM EDT

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Rumor has it that they're closing up too.

Posted: 8/26/2016 9:50:11 PM EDT

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George Soros bought them all and is having them melted to support gun control.

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You get the "Most Annoying Thought of the Day" award.

Posted: 8/27/2016 7:59:23 AM EDT

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Bumo for morning crew.

Posted: 8/27/2016 8:26:59 AM EDT

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We simply must rid the world of history so that people can be fed the proper propaganda without interference from the truth. It is one way to insure a world full of brain dead mouth breathers. Incrementalism works.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:20:45 AM EDT

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We simply must rid the world of history so that people can be fed the proper propaganda without interference from the truth. It is one way to insure a world full of brain dead mouth breathers. Incrementalism works.

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Yep much easier to re-write and re educate about history when all of the relics and artifacts from those periods no longer exist.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:23:20 AM EDT

[#21]

The world moves on...

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:26:04 AM EDT

[#22]

Send it to New Orleans.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:26:54 AM EDT

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This.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:27:45 AM EDT

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Thanks to Bill Clinton I don't think any of the military vehicles in Normandy or overseas can be imported back here.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:28:00 AM EDT

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Due to lack of visitors the Normandy tank museum is closing it's doors and selling off all of its vehicles and exhibits. Google images shows some amazing history there.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3755616/Your-chance-WWII-tank-French-museum-selling-historic-collection-didn-t-visitors.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-18/this-french-museum-can-sell-you-a-genuine-d-day-tank

I'll take this please

https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iY2hBlY9nyLY/v0/-1x-1.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/08/24/01/3786957800000578-3755616-image-a-24_1471999643076.jpg

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Amazing historical preservation, I had assumed Normandy museums were popular.

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:40:24 AM EDT

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No one cares anymore. Everyone thinks that can't happen again...

Posted: 8/27/2016 10:51:45 AM EDT

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Incorrect. They are imported all the time.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:00:04 AM EDT

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With it being in pussified Europe I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch isn't destroyed. .for the children.

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That is a shame, I hope all those historical pieces find good homes

With it being in pussified Europe I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch isn't destroyed. .for the children.

It is a private run museum in the middle of Normandy France. That shit ain't cheap to run. The majority of "awesome" museums are publicly funded. Simple fact of life.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:07:39 AM EDT

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That really sucks.

The younger French dont really appreciate whats happened on those beaches. When I was there a little over a year ago, my wifes French college age cousin said to us after me mentioning I wanted to go to Normandy, "its not good beach weather this time of year" not even realizing what the real attraction of going there was... a total disconnect

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:19:52 AM EDT

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This

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:23:27 AM EDT

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Can you spot the "restoration sponsored by BMW" tag?

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:25:03 AM EDT

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MY late FIL rode one like that in the ARMY,Armored division.He ended up in a tank crew in North Africa.He was the only survivor of his crew.......
He was a helluva good guy.

Posted: 8/27/2016 11:28:35 AM EDT

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That really sucks.

The younger French dont really appreciate whats happened on those beaches. When I was there a little over a year ago, my wifes French college age cousin said to us after me mentioning I wanted to go to Normandy, "its not good beach weather this time of year" not even realizing what the real attraction of going there was... a total disconnect

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The majority of Americans don't care for what happened in Lexington and Concord.