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Scholagladiatoria has just put up an accompanying video on his channel.

 
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Gulliver Foyle said:
The tank looks like a Panzer IV with a Panther turret shoehorned onto it. The kind of thing you'd see in a low budget WW2 movie from the 70's. Don't have the foggiest what the gun's supposed to be.
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I think it looks "more" like a Pershing than anything else, but still.

As an aside the US military certainly knows how to be confusing with it's numbering scheme.
 
One I'd commend more for his storytelling than as a historian (though he's well researched) is "Lord Hardthrasher".

Comedy bits, maybe a bit too pro-British for non Brits and often sweary but he tells a stirring tale, and he picks his heroes and villains on both sides then lays it on thick. His series on the Bomber Mafia was great, as was his recent piece on RAF bomber command. His series on the Burma campaign was amazing. Big fans of Joe Stillwell might avoid that one, or have a stiff drink first.
 
I can see he's likely a bit Marmite.

By contrast I also like the Armoured Archivist (formerly Armoured Carriers) which has no commentary at all from the maker but rather compiles recordings of mostly former Fleet Air Arm aircrew and aircraft carrier crew, illustrated with film and stills from the campaigns being discussed. I'm regularly surprised by the volume and quality of archive footage he includes. One thing I find fascinating is hearing several men's reminiscences touching on what is clearly the same event but each from their own point of view.

I don't know who creates the channel, though I got the impression early on it was Australian-based, and I often find myself wondering what their main source of these interview recordings is.
 
This one is particularly good,
I saw all the 70s ones when I was a cadet.
The RN film unit used to come round to the units regularly with a projector and screen.


 
This one just came up in my feed. I don't think I will click on it as I was unaware of what I presume was HMS Escher

Maybe @Gawdzilla Sama might appreciate it.

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This one just came up in my feed. I don't think I will click on it as I don't think HMS Escher took part in the engagement described.

Maybe @Gawdzilla Sama might appreciate this thread and have some suggestions.

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Gawdzilla Sama said:
Looks like a warship designed by a committee.
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Even most committees would have managed to not put 3 guns in a turret made for two, and I'm not sure that the officers poring over the paperwork would have found it very easy to do so in the outside, on a moving ship, let alone one that was firing its guns.
 

The Machine That Made Us (2008)

Stephen Fry: " ...everything that our culture and our civilisation depends on... starts... with Gutenberg's invention."
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