{"id":47615,"date":"2022-06-05T22:56:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47615"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:12:58","slug":"the-lonely-remains-of-sherman-tanks-that-fought-in-the-battle-of-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/05\/the-lonely-remains-of-sherman-tanks-that-fought-in-the-battle-of-normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"The lonely remains of Sherman tanks that fought in the Battle of Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This June 6 marks the 78th anniversary of the start in 1944 of Operation Overlord, more popularly known as the Normandy Landings.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/15\/the-armored-vestiges-of-the-cold-war-a-tanks-graveyard-in-germany\/\">The armored vestiges of the Cold War: a tanks graveyard in Germany<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/14\/war-zone-exploration-an-abandoned-russian-military-camp-near-chernobyl\/\">War zone exploration: an abandoned Russian military camp near Chernobyl<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>During the battle that began that day,<strong> more than 2,000 Allied tanks fought in Normandy<\/strong>. Many of them did not even land, because they sank before reaching the beaches. It is curious to see that<strong> so many years later there are still remains of tanks from that battle in the fields of Normandy<\/strong>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MarkFeltonProductions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Felton<\/a> has shown in an interesting video published today:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LRkM9-LCDF0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can see below some screenshots from the video<\/strong>, showing these old tanks that stopped forever in 1944. Heading this post we see an M4A1(76)W Sherman, with its barrel shattered.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52124709733_8d5b63d89f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another M4A1(76)W<\/strong>, in this case with the barrel severed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52124679951_359eeb23a2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another M4A1(76)W<\/strong>, with a colorful decoration made by some graffiti artist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52123654857_21dcf72e20_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An M4A1<\/strong> with a smashed turret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This June 6 marks the 78th anniversary of the start in 1944 of Operation Overlord, more popularly known as the Normandy Landings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11549,16877],"tags":[16745,10575,12736,12733,16744,16743,10389],"class_list":["post-47615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-history","category-ruins","tag-battle-of-normandy","tag-france","tag-normandy","tag-normandy-landings","tag-operation-overlord","tag-sherman-tank","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}