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Unique ID: 921 Added to Database: July 2009 Last Edited: July 2009 Type (ID): M7 Priest (1500) Model (ID): M7 Priest (1502) Location Category (ID): Museé Des Blindés (6200) Location (ID): Reserve Storage (6290) Serial Number: Registration: Name: Other Identification: Collection Reference: Links: References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 1: American Locomotive Company, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, USA (Primary manufacturer from April 1942-1944) 2: Museé Des Blindés, Saumur, Anjou, Maine-et-Loire, France (Current location) Text in original Preserved American Tanks publication: [No entry] Text in Preserved American Tanks Update: [No entry] Text in original Preserved Tanks In France publication: This M7 was recovered from the sea bed off the Normandie beaches where it had lain since D-Day, 6 June 1944. It was recovered from a sunken LCT, along with two others, by M. Jacques Lemonchois. One of the others has gone into the Musée Des Épaves Sous-Marines Du Débarquement at Commes (q.v.), and the other has gone to the 68th Artillery Regiment at Valbonne. This one arrived at the Museum in November 1986. It is in a rusted and barnacled condition but is largely complete.

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