Saturday we visited the war museum in Bayeux. We originally went to see a movie in the "Version Original," English, but we had misread the guide. OK, I had misread the guide and we showed up on the wrong day. Movies were shown in English only on Monday, so we drove around the town and stumbled upon the war museum. I couldn't pass it up.
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U.S. Tank Destroyer, M-10
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The museum had an excellent collection of armored vehicles, small arms, and artillery pieces of both the Allies and the German forces. No photographs were allowed inside the museum, so I took only photos of the tanks outside.
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Churchill Crocodile, British flame thrower tank.
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How do you tighten the treads on a tank? With a really big wrench.
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The fire spitting British Crocodile was a unique piece in the museum's collection and I had never seen one up close. It was interesting from many perspectives. The tank had obviously been designed and built in a hurry, with only production numbers as the goal.
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German Jagd-Panzer. A tank hunter.
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Curiously, the German tank killer was the only military vehicle in the collection with signs of rust on it. One final stab at the Nazi occupiers of WWII?
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