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Unique ID:
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1963
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Added to Database:
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28 December 2011
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Last Edited:
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24 February 2013
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Type (ID):
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T-55 (2560)
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Model (ID):
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T-55 Trainer (2573)
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Location Category (ID):
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The Tank Museum - Public Areas (3000)
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Location (ID):
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Cold War - Tamiya Hall (3012)
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Serial Number: |
“(K73) 47BN2030G 84 162” stamped into lower glacis plate.
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Other Identification: |
Sections cut away on left, right and rear of turret, and forward left side of hull.
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Collection Reference: |
E1994.31. (Accession 3194, Entry 1994.1115).
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Links: |
Museum Vehicle Record
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Associated Tanks: |
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Location History:
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1: Russia (Country of origin)
2: Unknown Location, Former GDR, Former German Democratic Republic, Germany (Served with East German Army until ca1994)
3: The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location)
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Text in original Preserved Soviet Tanks publication:
[No entry]
Text in Preserved Soviet Tanks Update:
[No entry]
Text in original Preserved Tanks In Britain publication:
This T55A was specially prepared by the former East German Army as a turret crew training vehicle, in particular for training the commander. It has a label that reads “Wartungs- und Instandsetzungstrainer U-WIT 155 A Hersteller: PzWGL-15 1990”. It was put on the museum books in 1994.
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Images - Photographs and NavPix (click to expand or browse)
March 2011
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1: Front left view
Taken: 9 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7187
Added: 24 March 2012
Filename: 58347422...
Views: 150
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2: Front right view
Taken: 9 March 2011
Contributor: M. Foti
Photo ID: 7188
Added: 24 March 2012
Filename: 58352907...
Views: 153
Select/Has Priority: 21/0
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