{"id":46187,"date":"2019-01-08T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46187"},"modified":"2018-12-19T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:40:16","slug":"tank-chats-40-crusader-the-tank-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/08\/tank-chats-40-crusader-the-tank-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank Chats #40 Crusader | The Tank Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nXJKME4qSwc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 30 Jun 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 40th Tank Chat, David Fletcher looks at the Second World War Crusader tank.<\/p>\n<p>The first Crusader III was delivered in May 1942. Crusader IIIs were landed first in Algeria on 13 November 1942, but removed from service upon conclusion of the campaign in Tunisia in May 1943. This vehicle probably never left England, as it was held by the School of Tank Technology, before transfer to the Tank Museum in 1949. This vehicle is painted to represent a tank serving in Tunisia. <\/p>\n<p>Support the work of The Tank Museum on Patreon: \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/tankmuseum\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/tankmuseum<\/a><br \/>\nOr donate <a href=\"http:\/\/tankmuseum.org\/support-us\/donate\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tankmuseum.org\/support-us\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: \u25ba <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TankMuseum\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TankMuseum<\/a><br \/>\nTiger Tank Blog: \u25ba <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tiger-tank.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blog.tiger-tank.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nTank 100 First World War Centenary Blog: \u25ba <a href=\"http:\/\/tank100.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tank100.com\/<\/a> #tankmuseum #tanks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published on 30 Jun 2017 In the 40th Tank Chat, David Fletcher looks at the Second World War Crusader tank. The first Crusader III was delivered in May 1942. Crusader IIIs were landed first in Algeria on 13 November 1942, but removed from service upon conclusion of the campaign in Tunisia in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,15,230],"tags":[991,588,1222,667],"class_list":["post-46187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-technology","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-egypt","tag-northafrica","tag-tunisia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c0X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46188,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46187\/revisions\/46188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}