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Originally Posted by helbent4
Dave,
Welcome to the list (or at least with regards to posting actively).
I don't think this has been specifically discussed but it's very germane. During the Yugoslav civil war, T-34/85s were pulled out of museums and other places (the back of the motor pool in some cases) and thrown into battle...
Tony
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I knew a guy many years back who toured Yugoslavia before the civil war and the two of us being interested in things military, he endeavoured to take photos of the various military things he saw (sometimes he was lucky, other times he wasn't).
One thing he wanted to take a pic of, that he couldn't because he was on holidays with his family (and they didn't want to stop the car so he could indulge his desires) was a group of tanks.
He was on a motorway when he spotted some army base or another and the vehicle park was filled with softskins and some APCs but what he wanted to photograph was the lines of T-34s parked up at the back of the motor pool. He estimated the number of T-34s at around the 80-100 mark.
This was a few years before the Yugoslav civil war and if I remember rightly, it was in the region of the Croatian/Serbian border (I think he and his family were heading for Belgrade).