Great Aunt Helene

I was recently given the article on my Great-Aunt Helen’s death, something that was a bit of a mystery as so many who were there have long-since passed away. Such a simple thing to have taken her from us, she was too young. Grandma Rydberg and Helen were very close.

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Inside the Panzer VIII Maus

Excellent video on the Maus, of which the Germans only created two of, and never took to full production. Too late in the war. By focusing on projects like this, which couldn’t cross a bridge for being too heavy, the Germans weren’t making the tanks that were actually making a difference. Obviously a good thing. Still quite an ambitious project.

The turret by itself was heavier than an entire Patton tank.

Unfortunately, the only survivor is at a museum in Russia, and not the Bovington Tank Museum in England.