OT Bonus - T28 Super Heavy Tank

**Mark in Rochester** · 08-05-2018 12:58 PM

Aberdeen Testing Grounds

Date taken: February 1948

Photographer Herbert Gehr

The T28 Super Heavy Tank was an American heavily armored tank self-propelled gun designed for the United States icon

Army during World War II. It was originally designed to be used to break through German icon

defenses of the Siegfried Line, and was later considered as a possible participant in the planned invasion of the Japanese icon

mainland.

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**browningautorifle** · 08-05-2018 01:12 PM

And of course it would be the center connector of the inside track that would need service...breaking track would take a week and 30 guys...that monster would be a crew killer for maint.

**CINDERS** · 08-05-2018 10:02 PM

I was thinking the same thing Jim bit like the Tigers road wheels having to remove 5 of them just to get to one at the very inside! Bet the crew could have a party inside that thing depending on what apparatus they had for ammo storage and loading would have to be 2 piece ammo!.....what a monster seen B/W pics of it but the colour ones and next to another smaller tank shows just how big it was. Thanks Mark
Also 1 LCT per tank!

**Paul S.** · 08-05-2018 10:57 PM

The size of the main gun tube says there isn't much room left inside for the crew.

**jonnyc** · 08-06-2018 09:56 AM

Is that one of those little "airborne" tanks it's compared with?

**Bob Womack** · 08-06-2018 10:17 AM

Last night I was watching a British icon

WWII show, a timeline of the war, and they displayed this tank as an example of a German icon

tank. Heheheghe. I guess it does look like a Jagdpanzer.

Bob

**Gil Boyd** · 08-06-2018 10:23 AM

The second photo looking down on it from behind it certainly has the same characteristics of a Chieftain

**BEAR** · 08-06-2018 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by jonnyc

Is that one of those little "airborne" tanks it's compared with?

I believe you are correct. It looks like a M22 Locust airborne light tank.

**Bill Hollinger** · 08-06-2018 11:00 AM

Yep, an M22 Locust.

**BEAR** · 08-06-2018 11:22 AM

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You just gotta love Army propagandists (PAO). The T28 is a huge tank in its own right but to compare it to what was the smallest US tank of WW2 makes it look like a "Goliath" instead of a bigger brother.

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