Sherman BARV question
 

Hi All,

Have spent the afternoon flicking threw books and found a picture of the Sherman barv and it got me thinking.
now were these built solely for the British sectors of the D-day landing, as 60 were built specially for the D-day landing so providing they all made it there would this not have been a vast amount of them all in a limited space. If so how comes there are next to no images of them, and what happened to them after the landings were over?
Next...as far as im aware there are only 5 surviving....there's the one in the D-day museum,reme museum,a museum in India also cadmans and lastly the one pulled of the ranges in bovington......are there any more that exsit on ranges or in any other collections in the world?
Lastly.....having never seen the interior of one and providing one of you have, are they literally just m4a2 Sherman's without turrets, that being the case what does the commander stand on as he is rather high up.

hope these arnt stupid questions.....

all the best Kyle....."buster"

This has been posted on another forum.....But I know not everyone uses the forum

Barv
 

The Royal Logistics Corps (?) used to have some for pushing around landing craft. Maybe it was the Royal Navy. The various British magazines and journals might have pictures or drawings from the time these were in service.

Sherman BARV interior photos
 

Attached are some photos of the interiror of a preserved Sherman BARV I gleaned on the internet about one year ago. Can't seem to find them again, and stupidly enough I did not write down the URL.

More to follow...

Michel

Sherman BARV interior photos - Part 2
 

And yet a few more in next post...

Sherman BARV interior photos - last part
 

That's it! The platform that partially obturates the turret ring should be quite visible, with the ladder to climb down into the ex-combat compartment.

Michel

Many thanks they are excellent pictures. Would you mind emailing them over to me?

Also does anyone know if they made a special manual for the BARV?

many thanks

All 109 photos I have of this BARV can be downloaded here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/e0431t

Click on "Click here to start download from sendspace" to get the file named BARV.zip.

Michel