The Chieftain's Random Musings Thread

CombatCommandD, on Jan 06 2015 - 03:58, said: Right, thanks for that Strela Carbon. I'll pass that along.   But on another, completely bizarre front... Does anyone know how a M24 Chaffee Light Tank ended up on the Battleship USS Nevada (BB-36)?   I was reading an article in the WWII Quarterly of Winter 2015 about a sailor who served on Unsinkable Nevada from before Pearl Harbor until almost the end of the war.  While looking at a picture of the Nevada after the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Tests, I spotted a tank on its starboard (right) side just beneath the forward main turrets.  There's no mistaking that it is a tank. I can make the turret, the hull and even the right side idler wheels. I concluded it had to be a Chaffee based on the turret design. It's a bit hard to tell in the picture, taken from the air several hundred up and just another several hundred feet out from the ship. So I could easily be wrong on the tank, but the length of the turret doesn't correspond to the M4 Sherman of any variants and I don't think a M26 Pershing would be expended so readily nor would it have easily fitted on the ship's 30 year old's decks.   So if you can have a look Chieftain, I would be thankful for that mystery to be solved.