Photo courtesy of S. BlantonFort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center is an Army National Guard installation in western Arkansas, near the city of Fort Smith. Established as Camp Chaffee in 1941, renamed to Fort Chaffee in 1956, Fort Chaffee has served as a United States Army base, training camp, prisoner-of-war camp, and refugee camp. The base was closed following the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission for reshaping the Defense Department's infrastructure. Since that time, the Arkansas National Guard has been using 64,590 acres as a training site. PDF via Boreham Library Operations New Life/New Arrivals, US Army support to the Indochinese refugee program, 1 April 1975 1 June 1976CensusNPRA Vietnamese newspaper, the Tan Dan, began publication two days after the first refugees’ arrival.
We have some copies of issues of the paper in the Pebley Center. We also have copies of the Helping Hand, a Chaffee publication.Oral histories of educators at Westark Community College conducting English as a second language and oral histories of refugees who went through Fort ChaffeePhotos in the Pebley Center in Sondra Lamar and Carol Barger Collections and SE Asia Collection available in the Pebley Center.
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Sherman and Lee Movies: How Has Hollywood Done With The Sherman? Boggy himself on an M3 Lee Sahara: The one from 1943Stars Humphrey Bogart but the real star is practically isM3 Lee. The movie was made during the war and is a great little war movie. I highly recommend it. The Lee in the movie is an early production M3.
An early P-51 with an Alison V1710 motor is used to portray a BF-109. This movie made the Lee into my favorite tank when I saw it as a kid. It led to my first tank model kit.
The M3 Lee in 1941 1941: Not the best movie, but amusing.One of Steven Spielberg’s first movies, trying to catch the comedic value of the panic on the west coast at the start of WWII. Dan Aykroyd and friends drive a Lee around the movie. The Lee in this movie is an early production model with side doors, and is missing its machine gun cupola.
The Movie also has an early B17, and a P-40 in it. That’s LEE is an IMPOSTER! They couldn’t find a real one so they built one on An M7 GMC hull with plywood.Tank: A Movie A Movie Used In A Prison Break!James Garner uses his personal Sherman tank to spring his son from Jail after a corrupt southern Sheriff put him there. Great little movie, featuring several, two I think, M4A3s, these are small hatch tanks with all the updates. It’s campy, but fairly family friendly, though, one of the tanks ‘Crew’ was a girl forced into prostitution by the Sheriff.Some Trivia about this Movie, the Collings Foundation, the charity that flies the B-24 around, owns the M4A3 Sherman used in this movie.Fury: Probably the best tank movie to dateBrat Pitt takes on a Tiger in a M4A3E8 and then kills lots of Nazis! What’s not to love? It was a pretty good modern war movie, even if not the most likely scenario.
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They used real Shermans and the only working Tiger tank in the world, curtesy of the Bovington Armor museum. There are lots of Nazis who get shot up by the crew, so really a fun night!
This movie is like Pearl Harbor, even if you hate the plot, it’s worth it just to see the WWII vehicles in action.Kelly’s Heroes: Corny, and a little to 60s hippy influenced, but still a fun movieClint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savalas, and Don Rickles rip off a bank in France while WWII goes on around them. Donald Sutherland plays Oddball, maybe his most famous role, at least with tank oriented people.
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Basically a 60s hippy transplanted into Sherman tanks for a war movie filmed in the late 60s. The music almost ruins the movie, but it has lots of footage of post war M4A3E4s with 75mm turrets and M1A1 guns replacing the 75mm gun. Filmed in Yugoslavia, using tanks they received from the US Government as military aid. This model will be covered at some point.The Movie is fun, but in no way should be taken for good history, look at it like the War comedy/Parody it is.A Bridge to Far: Lots Of Famous Actors, And Lots Of Sherman Tanks, and A Lot Of TimeThe last of the big screen epic war movies with mega casts. Most thought it was too long. Regardless of how you feel about the movie, if you like seeing Sherman tanks driving around, this movie is good one to watch a second time. It also has a star studded cast.
The Shermans range from plain Jane early production models to Fireflies.Coming soon, reviews of: The Tanks Are Coming and Cast A Giant Shadow Post navigation. Just found your site and really like it. I’m curious about your opinion on the battle scenes in Fury. It bothered me that we see four Shermans brew up or blow up as soon as they’re hit, with the entire crew lost each time. As you note, late war Shermans were much less prone to catch fire than early models. Crew losses averaged one or two killed per knocked out tank, so something like 8 to 12 twelve men should have survived. I was also bothered by the tactics when they fight the Tiger.
The Tiger advances steadily negating any advantage from its gun and optics, and the Shermans all bunch together and go in head on with no attempt to maneuver–and why does’t anybody put in another WP round to keep the Tiger blind? Ed,Thanks for the kind words on the site.I agree with you on all your points about Fury. I think David Ayer was a little to fascinated with books like Deathtraps, and really wanted to get the turrets flying into the movie. Of course, if they had used proper tactics, extra smoke and flanking, the movie wouldn’t have been as flashy. Another interesting tidbit is the M1A2 gun on Fury could punch right through the frontal armor of a Tiger I at those ranges.I think the movie could have been better if they had set it in Italy and used all 75mm armed Shermans. The whole bit about getting a side shot would have made sense then.
Of course to do that, they would have had to ship all the tanks from England to Italy, and I’m not to sure Bovington would allow the only working Tiger I tank in the world, to be shipped to another country. It wouldn’t be unprecedented, the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino CA, shipped many of their aircraft by barge, to Hawaii for the filming of Pearl Harbor. This included the only flying A6M3 Zero with original motor in the world! Anyway, there are a lot of things they could have done better with Fury, but the thing is, only tank geeks would ever really catch the real gritty details.Some of the things I liked about it, it was a movie about tanks and tankers, and had real tanks in it.
Call of pripyat bloodsucker lair 2. The equipment looked great and all period correct, well, except for the Tiger, since it was an early model, but knowing that is an even deeper level of geekery.It would have been nice if the Director had gone for actual realism, instead of pop culture super tiger kill many sherman one, but I’ve long since given up on Hollywood producing ‘Great movies’, and so much of whats come out in the last few years has been really bad. Fury is at least watchable, unlike say, Pearl Harbor. James,I’d say the real issue with Tiger scene in Fury, is the M4A3 76W HVSS tanks M1A2 gun would have no trouble penetrating the frontal armor on the Tiger at the ranges involved, using the standard M79 AP round.The ending is typical Hollywood, you got a have an exciting story to sell it to the money people, I’d say the movie is ok right up to the Tiger fight, then it gets silly.They really could have done a much more interesting movie, portraying Fury as Brit tank in Normandy.
Since the Brits were a tad short on manpower, they sent a lot of tank units in with no infantry support, and no tank lives long fighting infantry without it’s own around protecting it.On the upside, if the movie did well enough, Hollywood will be more prone to spend money on movies about tanks. Perhaps J-G-T, but then with the soft soil, doing such turnswould’ve not really risked the transmission/tracks systems& allowed the Tiger I to present its frontal glacis at an angleadvantageous to defence & shrugging off the 76mm shotIn any case, the French have a running Tiger II, which would’vereally beasted the Sherman, & defeated its best shot at anyrange/angle, frontally.
CM Normandy Download Page David Ingletts CM Normandy ModUpdate 2005-08-28: new skies over Normandy.This mod contains a number of bitmap graphics that alter the gamesappearance to mimic the Normandy area. Please follow the instructionscarefully. (identical to Uniforms.Instructions for installing CM Normandy:. Reinstall your CMAK game. When prompted for what directory to put your game in change'Battlefront' to 'BattlefrontNormandy' and 'Combat Mission Afrika Korps' to CMNormandy.You will be prompted again for a destination change 'CMAK' to 'CMNormandy'. Let the game install.You now have another copy of CMAK on your computer called CMNormandy.
If you have heavily modded your CMAK game to include tanks/vehicles/uniforms,etc. You will now want to transfer your modded BMPs to CMNormandy. Go to your CMAK or CMETOBMP file and 'Copy' the files you want (you could copy all the BMPs if you want) then go to yourCMNormandy BMP file and paste them in. Go to the CMNormandy 'Scenarios' folder and delete all the scenarios (they are all NorthAfrica and Italy scenarios). Transfer all your June through August scenarios that you havecollected in CMAK or CMETO into the CMNormandy Scenarios File. Go to CMMODs and Proving Grounds to get more. Visit the homepage.
Download the CMNormandy ftp file to your downloads folder. Extract the zipped file directlyinto your CMNormandy folder and answer 'Yes to all'. Note: The extracted zipwill overwrite some existing bitmaps in the BMP folder.On the same URL you will find ETO German Uniforms and ETO Allied Uniforms files.If you need 1944 uniforms, this is where to get them.
Follow the instructions given in'5' above.You are now done and have, in effect, a new game to play (sorry still no Tiger II's orCromwells).Until such time as a real artist takes on this project you are stuck with with my clumsy cutand paste technique. The concept for this Ubermod was from some of the feedback I gotfrom CMETO comments. I play the June through August scenarios on CMNormandy and Septemberthrough the duration on CMETO.AcknowledgementsNone of the original artwork in this Ubermod is mine, I simply cut and paste.I would like to thank the following true artists for their excellent work:Tanks-A-Lot Small buildings, CMBO grass, Summer trees (textures for Medium Bldgs). Gurra Shacks (he let me mod two of them to make them look more Normandy) Juju 3D Tree Bases, Berlin Buildings, trim for Medium Bldgs (could not have madewithout that trim) Undaunted High Res Skys Junk2Drive Wire fences (slightly modded) Magua Paving WindyCity Paved City Streets (modded to make sidewalks match Pavement).
Vincent Splashscreen Grunt Flying Flags MikeyD Providing smoke damage to medium sized damaged buildingsI would like to thank Junk2Drive for his encouragement and sage advice, George Mc forplaytest and Torsten for setting up the URL.I hope you enjoy this CMNormandy look as much as I have,DavidI.