Paul Quin <Paul_Quin@pml.com> wrote:
>Makes me think of the scene from "Kelly's Heroes" where Donald Sutherland's
>driver trades his Sherman for his dream Tiger. He was very shocked to find
>out just how bad the conditions were inside the Tiger. At least that movie
>(Starring Clint Eastwood among many others - great movie...) made an attempt
>having the tanks look like Tigers. I think that they were actually plywood
>mock-ups on some other tank chassis as the turrets were just to big compared
>the rest of the hull...
"Always with the negative waves, man...."
I was wondering when this would come up...at least *one* of the Tigers in
Kelly's Heros (one of my favorites, BTW...) had to be a for-real, working
Tiger. I doubt that Hollywood would have gone to the trouble of
replicating the hard-facing welds used to build-up the hull and turret....\
Cheers
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