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Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh
One of 7,499 M4A4s produced by Chrysler’s Detroit Tank Arsenal between July 1942 and November 1943. Ex' range target from Salisbury Plain, then Northern Ireland, the Normandy Tank Museum in Catz, France, Texas and and the Museum of the American G.I. of College Station.
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Adrian Barrel shared a photo of it while on Salisbury Plain in the early 1990's:
In 2016, when it was autioned by the Normandy Tank Museum and sold for €347.200 excl. 20% fees:
And some background story of what happened when previous owner Tony Buzbee — a trial lawyer, Marine veteran, the grandson of a Normandy vet — parked the fully operational tank on the street in front of his home on Houston’s swankiest residential thoroughfare:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-dai...ver-oaks-tank/