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UNIQUE ID 1289: M31B2 TANK RECOVERY VEHICLE

Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor, Fort Knox, USA

(Location: Keyes Park)


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Unique ID: 1289
Added to Database: 8 August 2010
Last Edited: 8 August 2010
Type (ID): M31 (1265)
Model (ID): M31B2 (1269)
Location Category (ID): Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor (67010)
Location (ID): Keyes Park (67030)
Serial Number:
Registration: (1983: “U S ARMY 3028639” painted on left side door and right superstructure side.)
Name:
Other Identification: Fitted with steel cleat track. “M31” painted on front right glacis. “19??” painted on front left glacis. White stars painted on superstructure sides. (1983: White stars painted on glacis and turret sides.)
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Location History:
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1: Baldwin Locomotive Works, Eddystone, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA (Sole manufacturer from late 1942)
2: U.S. Army Garrison, Grafenwöhr, Neustadt, Oberpfalz, Germany (Until July 1975)
3: Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA (Current location)


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Text in original Preserved Tanks In USA publication:

This TRV was a 5th Armored Division memorial before being acquired by the museum and transferred from Grafenwöhr, Germany, in July 1975. The side door has been factory-welded shut and all boom and support mounts, and rear deck stowage, have been removed. Some of its parts were used in the restoration of the museum’s M3 medium tank. It is currently missing its dummy turret gun (though this was previously present).


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August 2010

Front left view
1: Front left view

Taken: 6 August 2010
Contributor: D. Moriarty
Photo ID: 3668
Added: 14 August 2010
Filename: Dig_M31i...
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June 1983

Front right view
2: Front right view

Taken: 30 June 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 3616
Added: 10 August 2010
Filename: Scan_M31...
Views: 245
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Front view
3: Front view

Taken: 30 June 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 3617
Added: 10 August 2010
Filename: Scan_M31...
Views: 192
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Front left view
4: Front left view

Taken: 30 June 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 3618
Added: 10 August 2010
Filename: Scan_M31...
Views: 185
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Left view
5: Left view

Taken: 30 June 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 3619
Added: 10 August 2010
Filename: Scan_M31...
Views: 215
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Front right view
6: Front right view

Taken: 30 June 1983
Contributor: T. Larkum
Photo ID: 3620
Added: 10 August 2010
Filename: Scan_M31...
Views: 217
Select/Has Priority: 21/0