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Unique ID: 889 Added to Database: July 2009 Last Edited: July 2009 Type (ID): A41 Centurion (3400) Model (ID): Mark 5 (3410) Location Category (ID): Museé Des Blindés (6200) Location (ID): Inside Museum Building (6204) Serial Number: Registration: “52-81086” (Canadian) painted on hull sides. Name: “TRUN 18 Août 1944” painted on side plates. Other Identification: “13” painted on turret sides. Collection Reference: Links: References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 1: Vickers-Armstrongs Limited, Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North East England, Britain (Design parent and manufacturer 1957-58) 2: Museé Des Blindés, Saumur, Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, France (Current location) This Mark 5 was given to the Armour Museum by the Canadian Army. It was presented by General Michaud, the Canadian Military Attaché in Paris, during an official ceremony on 21 March 1983. In commemoration of the sacrifice of Canadian soldiers for the liberation of France it was named “Trun, 18 August 1944” by the Museum. On that date this small Normandie village saw very hard fighting between the 4th Canadian Armoured Division and the 7th German Army encircled in the Falaise pocket. This tank served with the Canadian Army in Europe and Canada before retiring from service. It was transported from Canada courtesy of the ‘Deutcher Logisticer Bevollmächtigter in Frankreich’, the German logistic organisation based at Fontainebleau and concerned with the transit to France of German Army supplies. The Centurion was carried as far as the French military port of La Rochelle on board a boat loaded with Leopard 1s of the Bundeswehr returning from a Canadian training camp. It is unusual in retaining a Type A gun barrel, that is one without a fume extractor.

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July 1984 1: Right view Taken: 24 July 1984 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 1627 Added: 20 July 2009 Filename: Scan_Cen... Views: 245 Select/Has Priority: 4/0

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