A pink tank (Stug III) the world forgot - until now.It seems to be a meme - here's a pink IS2 from Prague, and a T34 in Bermondsey (!) and an M24 with a very fetching bobble on the barrel in Copenhagen.
Lots and lots of pink tanks!
And a pink 75 from MadDog!
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A nice assault gun although not as fearsome as a King Tiger. Where is this piece of history located? Are people digging it up in an appropriately respectful and sensitive manner (although the words "sensitive" and "tank" don't usually belong in the same sentence).
In Czechoslovakia, the site didn't say more than that presumably because the finders intend to salvage it.
Finally! Something to go with my Barbie fighter jet!
Joy for Friday, indeed.
There's something odd about painting ex-military eqipment pink. Part of me says it's a kind of vandalism and the vestigial hippy loves it. Funnily enough I blogged about something very similar over a years ago: http://self-preservationsociety.blogspot.com/2006/07/is-it-just-me.html
Sorry, that should read "equipment"
Interesting that there's one in Bermondsey -my old stomping grounds. I wonder if it escaped from the Imperial War Museum?
A Barbie fighter jet?! That led me to "Secret Agent Barbie" and her robot spy puppy. The girl who has everything.
In the pictures the Bermondsey tank looks rather bedraggled... maybe an abandoned symbol of British-Soviet solidarity?
The oddest things turn up in the oddest places... though I think your pink cannon takes the biscuit, there's something very disturbing about it.
Chertz: What's a 75? I suspect you know much more about military hardware than I. I presume it's some kind of Barbie howitzer...
The gun that was a staple of the French and American armies for about ever -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soixante-Quinze
Your Barbie wants one, plus you will need an Artillerist Ken to pull the lanyard.
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