Does anyone have any ideas why this Crusader Tank Mk1 is being crewed by Americans? Guess it's some sort of trial around 1941/ 1942. Where?
Mentioned in an article here pgs 3& 4 http://ciar.org/ttk/mbt/armor/armor-magazine/armor-mag.1997.ja/4lets97.pdf pdf http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/eARMOR/content/issues/1997/JUL_AUG/ArmorJulyAugust1997web.pdf
Ft. Knox, apparently: Interesting letter - might be a response in later issues? http://www.benning.army.mil/armor/eARMOR/content/issues/1997/JUL_AUG/ArmorJulyAugust1997web.pdf
Extracted text: (a bit partial, as it does that OCR/PDF thing of inserting linebreaks which had to be stripped.)
Original article referred to: http://www.ciar.org/ttk/mbt/armor/armor-magazine/armor-mag.1997.ma/2british97.pdf Haven't read it properly yet, but seems to contain little beyond the caption.
Snippet in Fletcher's Osprey on Crusader - from Google books: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iTwFk4qgkFcC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=fort+knox+crusader+1942&source=bl&ots=pPWWIu3lTw&sig=FLLZATTSiDm-5qyIU1ngZTXro1U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AF3iUrrFJdOjhgechoGoCQ&ved=0CFwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=knox&f=false I can't find my damned copy (if I've got one... sure I did), so maybe someone could oblige?
I'm thinking this perhaps has to be something to do with Dewar's 'Tank Mission', but the Index in the Great Tank Scandal is pretty weak: http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/13801-it-may-be-hard-to-swallow-but/?p=154251
Looks like at least one other picture exists: From: Google Books - Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of U.S. Cavalry By George F. Hofmann Hmmm, I wonder, given that picture credit, if the vehicle survives at the Patton Museum? Doesn't appear to be the same one as Littlefield was tarting up, or the Aberdeen one. Ah, Maybe Aberdeen had two (I recall one with sand shields)... I wonder iif this could be it on the ever-useful shadock's site (despite possible date discrepancy)? Scratch that - different Mark now I look at the first picture, but at least further reference to Crusaders in the US. (That one T126120 according to the AFV Register) http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Cruiser_Tanks.pdf (Very interesting how many Crusaders survive in South Africa... but that's beside the point) Hmmmm...
A little more on the Crusader range wrecks in Maryland: http://www.afvregister.org/Selected.aspx http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9139&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
The full set of AFV reports from Aberdeen Proving Grounds are available here https://www.mlrsbooks.co.uk/bookstore/index.php/prod584.html? and here: https://www.mlrsbooks.co.uk/bookstore/index.php/prod592.html? I think the latter link is a compendium including vol.1 in the first link, so buyer beware. Any reports on the Crusader may be contained within.
