Tiger paint on an M46 Patton of the 6th Tank Battalion in Korea in March 1951

[northernskys]

Shame this isn't in colour. That "Tiger" paint scheme was bright! The 6th apparently painted all their tanks in this "Tiger" scheme, and several other commands had similar "scary" paintwork on their vehicles. This was in early 1951, (March/April?) during the UN's offensive againt the Chinese/North Korean forces. The Chinese "Year of the Tiger" had just finished (January?) and someone had the bright idea that maybe painting tiger faces on tanks might scare the superstitious Chinese soldiers. Love to know if it did!

[Dawn_Raider]

Mom: We have Tiger II at home.
Tiger II at home.

[tonbopro]

Wow actual footage of famous artwork on a tank

[ZeSgtSchultz]

Ive seen a tank with the same paint at fort benning, they have a huge stockpile of old tanks just sitting around.

[DonDiesel]

Hell Yeah Bro! - You totally know her crew was steady handing out those~ One-Way Express Tickets straight 2 that Big & Long Commie Breadline inna Sky . . .

[thegyptian]

WT paint back then.
Now— Anime Girl and body pillows 💀

[Oligodendrocyte]

Karbine - I've come across some footage of an M19 MGMC. Any use to you? I'd never seen one before 😊

[rexfrommn]

It is unfortunate that the US Army didn't both looking at upgrade packages for the Sherman tank. "Depot strategy" is what smart soldiers do after a war. Forst, you hoard all the weapons you can gather or steal from battlefields or from the enemy. You have engineers go through to determine what weapons can be refurbished or modernized. Older obsolescent weapons are modernized, refurbished then relearsed for Lend Lease or military defense programs. Let us consider the Sherman tank for instance. A smart engineer with combat experience would have known a German Panther long 75mm gun, diesel engine with reasonable armor, suspension and track upgrades package were entirely feasible for Sherman tanks. All Sherman tanks possible around the world should have been gathered up in depots for a complete overhaul with a modernization package. These modernized tanks are then given out to Allied nation for their military reserves and active duty forces. You give these modernized upgunned Sherman's to National Guard, Reserve and US Army infantry Divisions to get another 15 or 20 years out of them as infantry support vehicles. You then start developing M-26/M-46 heavy tanks for armored unnits and for battalions/brrigades to attach to infantry divisions. So this mix and match system could have worked for the US Army into the late 1950's.

[ΚώσταςΤριανταφύλλου-υλ]

This is not, as entitled, a " M-46 PATTON". It is "M-26 PERSHING " ( 1945, Rhinenland-1950-.., Corea...

[jamesellis]

Gramps Had such . Korean Samaria . Would attack also .

[MarkKlaers]

I don't think there were any M 48s in Korea in 1951.