Tanks On Stamps

The stamp designer has used artistic license to provide a dramatic effect with the flames coming from the Churchill's barrel. The Churchill AVRE (Armoured Vehicle, Royal Engineers) was armed with a 290mm spigot mortar, not a flamethrower. The vehicle's purpose was to destroy fixed fortifications, i.e., bunker busting, making it a combat engineering vehicle, not a tank, per se. There was a flamethrower based on the Churchill, known as the Crocodile. The tank retained its main armament (a 75mm gun), but the hull machine gun was replaced with the flamethrower. Flame fuel was carried in an armored trailer towed by the tank.

Robert

On June 12, 2003, Germany honored the 50th anniversary of the 1953 East German uprising with this semi postal stamp. It is Michel #2342. Michel does not mention which groups the charity serves, nor do they mention the name of the photographer of this iconic image.

The Soviet T-34 tanks make a reprise appearance here, but this time in an inglorious rather than a glorious fashion.

Is T-34 an inglorious tank? Here are the inglorious tanks!

Nice propaganda painting!

A quick Google search will find similar photographs of Soviet T-34 tanks in these places:

Plzen, Czechoslovakia, 1953
Poznan, Poland, 1956
Budapest, Hungary, 1958

Kingdom of Bahrain
5th February 2018
50th Anniv of Bahrain Defence Force




Printed - Oriental Press, Bahrain

M60A3 Main Battle Tank (?)

Republic of Syria
17th April 1955
9th Anniv of Evacuation of Foreign troops from Syria




designed - Paul Koroleff, printed - Litho Imp Catholique, Beirut

Do not need a quick search ... you need to know the history very well! To reproach the Russian army in the storming of the capitals is ridiculous!
The Russian Army stormed Berlin three times...





Poland was divided four times, but liberated Warsaw



We were twice in Budapest



We liberated Prague



And Vienna


The Russians stormed Stockholm twise



and Rome (the naval infantry of Admiral Ushakov)


Alexander's army entered Paris



and many oters cities have experienced the forces of Russian weapons ... But we never used nuclear weapons (Japan), an agent of Orange, Napalm (Vietnam), carpet bombing (Hamburg, Dresden), ethnocide (Indians of North America) and mass killings of peaceful of the population (North Korea and Iraq)... so you do not call Russian tanks "inglorious"

Yes, Alexey. Those of us who know a little history, are fully aware of the "glory" of the Russian/Soviet army:
How, in 1953, 1956 and 1968, it "liberated" East Berlin, Budapest and Prage...From the democràtic wishes of their own peoples...
How, it "liberated" Warsaw, after leaving the nazis to crush the Polish patriòtic rising...
Not to mention, Katyn (1939/40); the deportations of the Baltic Nations (1940/41), the "glorious" liberation of Eastern Germany in 1945 (sacking, raping...)

I've always been glad that my own city (Barcelona) is too far West to feel "the friendly embrace" of the "glorious Russian army".

Just to end, to state that any action taken by the US or British armies on the XXth century, was backed by the governement a democràtic country. Which is very hard to say of the Russian ones.

I haven't always liked the governaments of the great Western powers. But I fully respect them, as they express the wish of their nations. Which can't be said of Russia...

Alexey uploaded this image earlier.

It took awhile, but I finally located it in the Scott catalog: Viet Nam (Democratic Republic) Scott 537. Scott provides this description: "40xu, Insurgents, Tay Ninh, destroyed US armor."

This may be what the stamp artist intended, but he got it wrong. The destroyed tank on the right is a Japan Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank from World War II. What made me question the depiction is the drive sprocket at the front of the tank. The US deployed the M48 tank to Viet Nam, which has the drive sprocket at the rear.

Compare:


The marking on the turret side (white star flanked by two horizontal white lines, with, perhaps, a red line between) is not one that was used by US tanks in Viet Nam, however, I seem to recall some Japanese tanks with that marking (but I don't have a reference to confirm that). Finally, the POW in front with his arm in a sling is wearing a Japanese style field cap.

The stamp artist got it wrong, but that probably didn't matter. To the north Viet Nam leadership, the message was more important.

Robert

Yes. With the marking the artist clearly made a mistake, he copied it from helicopters... But the tank is exactly M48. It has a long cannon, the hatch of the tower is opened back. The driving sprocket is in place, just the tower is turned back. This series of stamps is issued in honor of the uprising of the forces of South Vietnam in 1968, the stamp is called "Heroic Tainin" ... I can not even imagine where they took the old Japanese tank

Today is the day of the Kursk battle. Thousands of tanks converged on the field near Prokhorovka that day. It was the greatest tank battle in history. After the Battle of Kursk, the defeat of the Wehrmacht became inevitable

Here is an image of a stamp depicting a self-propelled gun and other military equipment, printed by photogravure, and issued by Egypt on November 10, 1984 to publicize the International Armaments Fair held in Cairo, Scott No. 1263.

- nethryk

Singapore 2018 ASEAN

Soldiers, tank, warplane and warships, printed by photogravure, and issued by Spain on May 24, 1980 for Armed Forces Day, Scott No. 2210.

- nethryk

This Libyan postal clipping postmarked 17 December 1969 contains the stamps of two different autocratic regimes. The stamp on the left was issued in March 1969 as part of a set of three marking the 8th Tripoli International Fair, and is an emission of the deposed King Idris I regime. Stamp is inscribed "Kingdom of Libya".

The stamp on the right is from a set of 6 issued on Dec. 7, 1969 commemorating the establishment of the Libya Arab Republic, in which Col. Moammar Gaddafi would be "ruler for life". The 1969 coup d'etat, or 1 September Revolution was carried out by a group of military officers, led by Col. Gaddafi. Stamp is inscribed "L.A.R.".