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Both Axis & Allied nations produced thousands of tanks during the Second World War. However, not many of these vehicles survive to this day (there are exceptions of course). When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources.
What was the scrapping process? Are they pushed into a giant scary blender, or are they dismantled piece by piece and melted?
I would think the second method would make more sense, but then again, I also find cases like the M4 Sherman in Wibrin (Belgium) which was saved during scrapping to be preserved as a monument. (This tank looks like it was bitten in half.)
Can anyone clear this up for me and perhaps provide pictures of the scrapping process?
Thanks!
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Both Axis & Allied nations produced thousands of tanks during the Second World War. However, not many of these vehicles survive to this day (there are exceptions of course). When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources.
What was the scrapping process? Are they pushed into a giant scary blender, or are they dismantled piece by piece and melted?
I would think the second method would make more sense, but then again, I also find cases like the M4 Sherman in Wibrin (Belgium) which was saved during scrapping to be preserved as a monument. (This tank looks like it was bitten in half.)
Can anyone clear this up for me and perhaps provide pictures of the scrapping process?
Thanks!
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The last part of my answer on scuttling u-boats has a section on other weaponry (as requested by the OP there) with quite a few details and links on tanks etc.
– Lars Bosteen
2 hours ago
In reference to your statement: When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources ... Can you provide information on the various sources you read which always said that?
– Kerry L
1 hour ago
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Both Axis & Allied nations produced thousands of tanks during the Second World War. However, not many of these vehicles survive to this day (there are exceptions of course). When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources.
What was the scrapping process? Are they pushed into a giant scary blender, or are they dismantled piece by piece and melted?
I would think the second method would make more sense, but then again, I also find cases like the M4 Sherman in Wibrin (Belgium) which was saved during scrapping to be preserved as a monument. (This tank looks like it was bitten in half.)
Can anyone clear this up for me and perhaps provide pictures of the scrapping process?
Thanks!
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Both Axis & Allied nations produced thousands of tanks during the Second World War. However, not many of these vehicles survive to this day (there are exceptions of course). When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources.
What was the scrapping process? Are they pushed into a giant scary blender, or are they dismantled piece by piece and melted?
I would think the second method would make more sense, but then again, I also find cases like the M4 Sherman in Wibrin (Belgium) which was saved during scrapping to be preserved as a monument. (This tank looks like it was bitten in half.)
Can anyone clear this up for me and perhaps provide pictures of the scrapping process?
Thanks!
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The last part of my answer on scuttling u-boats has a section on other weaponry (as requested by the OP there) with quite a few details and links on tanks etc.
– Lars Bosteen
2 hours ago
In reference to your statement: When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources ... Can you provide information on the various sources you read which always said that?
– Kerry L
1 hour ago
2
Is that a half track?
– Clint Eastwood
1 hour ago
add a comment |Â
1
The last part of my answer on scuttling u-boats has a section on other weaponry (as requested by the OP there) with quite a few details and links on tanks etc.
– Lars Bosteen
2 hours ago
In reference to your statement: When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources ... Can you provide information on the various sources you read which always said that?
– Kerry L
1 hour ago
2
Is that a half track?
– Clint Eastwood
1 hour ago
1
1
The last part of my answer on scuttling u-boats has a section on other weaponry (as requested by the OP there) with quite a few details and links on tanks etc.
– Lars Bosteen
2 hours ago
The last part of my answer on scuttling u-boats has a section on other weaponry (as requested by the OP there) with quite a few details and links on tanks etc.
– Lars Bosteen
2 hours ago
In reference to your statement: When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources ... Can you provide information on the various sources you read which always said that?
– Kerry L
1 hour ago
In reference to your statement: When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources ... Can you provide information on the various sources you read which always said that?
– Kerry L
1 hour ago
2
2
Is that a half track?
– Clint Eastwood
1 hour ago
Is that a half track?
– Clint Eastwood
1 hour ago
add a comment |Â
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Once nobody was willing or able to use them(either in other conflicts or as bulldozers), tanks were stripped of any particularly valuable or reusable parts, and whatever was left was disassembled/cut up to be used as scrap metal.
(all of the images and info can be found here or here)
Vehicles which were destroyed on the battlefield were recovered to either be repaired or stripped. The recovery operations were aided by specialized vehicles(such as the M32) which could move the disabled tanks to scrapyards:
At the scrapyards(also called "strip out yards"), the valuable bits that still worked were removed from the disabled tanks to be used as replacements in more usable tanks. This was also a great time for military research, as engineers could poke around allied and enemy tanks looking for vulnerabilities and areas of improvement.
As for the rest, whatever could be removed from the hull or cut up using on-site tools was piled together. If there were no on-site tools to cut up the tank hulls, then the hulls were shipped to better equipped processing facilities elsewhere. Once disassembled, whatever couldn't be directly used for other tanks was used as regular scrap metal wherever metal was needed:
However, once the war was over there were still hundreds of thousands of working vehicles that needed a home. For those that didn't get sold/lent to other countries for other conflicts, there was plenty of room in military depots like those in the American Southwest:
In the years after WWII, the vehicles that weren't expected to ever be used again were stripped, chopped up, and scraped in pretty much the same way as those in the post-battlefield scrapyards(though with much less urgency):
A few of those that weren't scrapped were converted to monuments(as you found) or stored/refurbished in museums or private collections, but many chose a much more humble retirement and were cheaply sold to farmers to be used as tractors(ammo not included):
answered 1 hour ago
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A lot of the usable tanks (and other vehicles) ended up in the Middle East in time for the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
This makes sense. There was very little (if any) infrastructure for recycling in the 1940's, and little interest in constructing such while most of Europe's cities lay in ruins.
answered 3 hours ago
Pieter Geerkens
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But doesn't the question just become "How were WWII tanks scrapped after the Israeli War of Independence"? At some point, every single tank that isn't usable/on display today was either taken apart or abandoned in a scrapyard somewhere.
– Giter
2 hours ago
@Giter: Say what? Are you looking for an audit trail for every one of the hundred thousand + tanks built during and leading up to WW2? That just become a stupid question.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
@Giter: Half of Germany was homeless by May 1945. Much of the Netherlands was within a few days of death by starvation. Recycling junk tanks lying around was a very low priority for years afterwards.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
2
Not an audit trail of anything specific, but the OP seemed more interested in the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that were scrapped in the years following WWII, not the (presumably) smaller number of vehicles that were reused in other conflicts.
– Giter
2 hours ago
2
The OP seems to be asking about the scrapping process in general. This answer doesn't seem to address that.
– user32121
2 hours ago
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Once nobody was willing or able to use them(either in other conflicts or as bulldozers), tanks were stripped of any particularly valuable or reusable parts, and whatever was left was disassembled/cut up to be used as scrap metal.
(all of the images and info can be found here or here)
Vehicles which were destroyed on the battlefield were recovered to either be repaired or stripped. The recovery operations were aided by specialized vehicles(such as the M32) which could move the disabled tanks to scrapyards:
At the scrapyards(also called "strip out yards"), the valuable bits that still worked were removed from the disabled tanks to be used as replacements in more usable tanks. This was also a great time for military research, as engineers could poke around allied and enemy tanks looking for vulnerabilities and areas of improvement.
As for the rest, whatever could be removed from the hull or cut up using on-site tools was piled together. If there were no on-site tools to cut up the tank hulls, then the hulls were shipped to better equipped processing facilities elsewhere. Once disassembled, whatever couldn't be directly used for other tanks was used as regular scrap metal wherever metal was needed:
However, once the war was over there were still hundreds of thousands of working vehicles that needed a home. For those that didn't get sold/lent to other countries for other conflicts, there was plenty of room in military depots like those in the American Southwest:
In the years after WWII, the vehicles that weren't expected to ever be used again were stripped, chopped up, and scraped in pretty much the same way as those in the post-battlefield scrapyards(though with much less urgency):
A few of those that weren't scrapped were converted to monuments(as you found) or stored/refurbished in museums or private collections, but many chose a much more humble retirement and were cheaply sold to farmers to be used as tractors(ammo not included):
answered 1 hour ago
Giter
894147
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up vote
3
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Once nobody was willing or able to use them(either in other conflicts or as bulldozers), tanks were stripped of any particularly valuable or reusable parts, and whatever was left was disassembled/cut up to be used as scrap metal.
(all of the images and info can be found here or here)
Vehicles which were destroyed on the battlefield were recovered to either be repaired or stripped. The recovery operations were aided by specialized vehicles(such as the M32) which could move the disabled tanks to scrapyards:
At the scrapyards(also called "strip out yards"), the valuable bits that still worked were removed from the disabled tanks to be used as replacements in more usable tanks. This was also a great time for military research, as engineers could poke around allied and enemy tanks looking for vulnerabilities and areas of improvement.
As for the rest, whatever could be removed from the hull or cut up using on-site tools was piled together. If there were no on-site tools to cut up the tank hulls, then the hulls were shipped to better equipped processing facilities elsewhere. Once disassembled, whatever couldn't be directly used for other tanks was used as regular scrap metal wherever metal was needed:
However, once the war was over there were still hundreds of thousands of working vehicles that needed a home. For those that didn't get sold/lent to other countries for other conflicts, there was plenty of room in military depots like those in the American Southwest:
In the years after WWII, the vehicles that weren't expected to ever be used again were stripped, chopped up, and scraped in pretty much the same way as those in the post-battlefield scrapyards(though with much less urgency):
A few of those that weren't scrapped were converted to monuments(as you found) or stored/refurbished in museums or private collections, but many chose a much more humble retirement and were cheaply sold to farmers to be used as tractors(ammo not included):
answered 1 hour ago
Giter
894147
add a comment |Â
up vote
3
down vote
up vote
3
down vote
Once nobody was willing or able to use them(either in other conflicts or as bulldozers), tanks were stripped of any particularly valuable or reusable parts, and whatever was left was disassembled/cut up to be used as scrap metal.
(all of the images and info can be found here or here)
Vehicles which were destroyed on the battlefield were recovered to either be repaired or stripped. The recovery operations were aided by specialized vehicles(such as the M32) which could move the disabled tanks to scrapyards:
At the scrapyards(also called "strip out yards"), the valuable bits that still worked were removed from the disabled tanks to be used as replacements in more usable tanks. This was also a great time for military research, as engineers could poke around allied and enemy tanks looking for vulnerabilities and areas of improvement.
As for the rest, whatever could be removed from the hull or cut up using on-site tools was piled together. If there were no on-site tools to cut up the tank hulls, then the hulls were shipped to better equipped processing facilities elsewhere. Once disassembled, whatever couldn't be directly used for other tanks was used as regular scrap metal wherever metal was needed:
However, once the war was over there were still hundreds of thousands of working vehicles that needed a home. For those that didn't get sold/lent to other countries for other conflicts, there was plenty of room in military depots like those in the American Southwest:
In the years after WWII, the vehicles that weren't expected to ever be used again were stripped, chopped up, and scraped in pretty much the same way as those in the post-battlefield scrapyards(though with much less urgency):
A few of those that weren't scrapped were converted to monuments(as you found) or stored/refurbished in museums or private collections, but many chose a much more humble retirement and were cheaply sold to farmers to be used as tractors(ammo not included):
answered 1 hour ago
Giter
894147
Once nobody was willing or able to use them(either in other conflicts or as bulldozers), tanks were stripped of any particularly valuable or reusable parts, and whatever was left was disassembled/cut up to be used as scrap metal.
(all of the images and info can be found here or here)
Vehicles which were destroyed on the battlefield were recovered to either be repaired or stripped. The recovery operations were aided by specialized vehicles(such as the M32) which could move the disabled tanks to scrapyards:
At the scrapyards(also called "strip out yards"), the valuable bits that still worked were removed from the disabled tanks to be used as replacements in more usable tanks. This was also a great time for military research, as engineers could poke around allied and enemy tanks looking for vulnerabilities and areas of improvement.
As for the rest, whatever could be removed from the hull or cut up using on-site tools was piled together. If there were no on-site tools to cut up the tank hulls, then the hulls were shipped to better equipped processing facilities elsewhere. Once disassembled, whatever couldn't be directly used for other tanks was used as regular scrap metal wherever metal was needed:
However, once the war was over there were still hundreds of thousands of working vehicles that needed a home. For those that didn't get sold/lent to other countries for other conflicts, there was plenty of room in military depots like those in the American Southwest:
In the years after WWII, the vehicles that weren't expected to ever be used again were stripped, chopped up, and scraped in pretty much the same way as those in the post-battlefield scrapyards(though with much less urgency):
A few of those that weren't scrapped were converted to monuments(as you found) or stored/refurbished in museums or private collections, but many chose a much more humble retirement and were cheaply sold to farmers to be used as tractors(ammo not included):
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A lot of the usable tanks (and other vehicles) ended up in the Middle East in time for the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
This makes sense. There was very little (if any) infrastructure for recycling in the 1940's, and little interest in constructing such while most of Europe's cities lay in ruins.
answered 3 hours ago
Pieter Geerkens
34.5k596163
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But doesn't the question just become "How were WWII tanks scrapped after the Israeli War of Independence"? At some point, every single tank that isn't usable/on display today was either taken apart or abandoned in a scrapyard somewhere.
– Giter
2 hours ago
@Giter: Say what? Are you looking for an audit trail for every one of the hundred thousand + tanks built during and leading up to WW2? That just become a stupid question.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
@Giter: Half of Germany was homeless by May 1945. Much of the Netherlands was within a few days of death by starvation. Recycling junk tanks lying around was a very low priority for years afterwards.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
2
Not an audit trail of anything specific, but the OP seemed more interested in the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that were scrapped in the years following WWII, not the (presumably) smaller number of vehicles that were reused in other conflicts.
– Giter
2 hours ago
2
The OP seems to be asking about the scrapping process in general. This answer doesn't seem to address that.
– user32121
2 hours ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
A lot of the usable tanks (and other vehicles) ended up in the Middle East in time for the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
This makes sense. There was very little (if any) infrastructure for recycling in the 1940's, and little interest in constructing such while most of Europe's cities lay in ruins.
answered 3 hours ago
Pieter Geerkens
34.5k596163
1
But doesn't the question just become "How were WWII tanks scrapped after the Israeli War of Independence"? At some point, every single tank that isn't usable/on display today was either taken apart or abandoned in a scrapyard somewhere.
– Giter
2 hours ago
@Giter: Say what? Are you looking for an audit trail for every one of the hundred thousand + tanks built during and leading up to WW2? That just become a stupid question.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
@Giter: Half of Germany was homeless by May 1945. Much of the Netherlands was within a few days of death by starvation. Recycling junk tanks lying around was a very low priority for years afterwards.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
2
Not an audit trail of anything specific, but the OP seemed more interested in the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that were scrapped in the years following WWII, not the (presumably) smaller number of vehicles that were reused in other conflicts.
– Giter
2 hours ago
2
The OP seems to be asking about the scrapping process in general. This answer doesn't seem to address that.
– user32121
2 hours ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
up vote
0
down vote
A lot of the usable tanks (and other vehicles) ended up in the Middle East in time for the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
This makes sense. There was very little (if any) infrastructure for recycling in the 1940's, and little interest in constructing such while most of Europe's cities lay in ruins.
answered 3 hours ago
Pieter Geerkens
34.5k596163
A lot of the usable tanks (and other vehicles) ended up in the Middle East in time for the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
This makes sense. There was very little (if any) infrastructure for recycling in the 1940's, and little interest in constructing such while most of Europe's cities lay in ruins.
answered 3 hours ago
Pieter Geerkens
34.5k596163
answered 3 hours ago
Pieter Geerkens
34.5k596163
answered 3 hours ago
Pieter Geerkens
34.5k596163
answered 3 hours ago
Pieter Geerkens
34.5k596163
34.5k596163
1
But doesn't the question just become "How were WWII tanks scrapped after the Israeli War of Independence"? At some point, every single tank that isn't usable/on display today was either taken apart or abandoned in a scrapyard somewhere.
– Giter
2 hours ago
@Giter: Say what? Are you looking for an audit trail for every one of the hundred thousand + tanks built during and leading up to WW2? That just become a stupid question.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
@Giter: Half of Germany was homeless by May 1945. Much of the Netherlands was within a few days of death by starvation. Recycling junk tanks lying around was a very low priority for years afterwards.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
2
Not an audit trail of anything specific, but the OP seemed more interested in the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that were scrapped in the years following WWII, not the (presumably) smaller number of vehicles that were reused in other conflicts.
– Giter
2 hours ago
2
The OP seems to be asking about the scrapping process in general. This answer doesn't seem to address that.
– user32121
2 hours ago
add a comment |Â
1
But doesn't the question just become "How were WWII tanks scrapped after the Israeli War of Independence"? At some point, every single tank that isn't usable/on display today was either taken apart or abandoned in a scrapyard somewhere.
– Giter
2 hours ago
@Giter: Say what? Are you looking for an audit trail for every one of the hundred thousand + tanks built during and leading up to WW2? That just become a stupid question.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
@Giter: Half of Germany was homeless by May 1945. Much of the Netherlands was within a few days of death by starvation. Recycling junk tanks lying around was a very low priority for years afterwards.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
2
Not an audit trail of anything specific, but the OP seemed more interested in the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that were scrapped in the years following WWII, not the (presumably) smaller number of vehicles that were reused in other conflicts.
– Giter
2 hours ago
2
The OP seems to be asking about the scrapping process in general. This answer doesn't seem to address that.
– user32121
2 hours ago
1
1
But doesn't the question just become "How were WWII tanks scrapped after the Israeli War of Independence"? At some point, every single tank that isn't usable/on display today was either taken apart or abandoned in a scrapyard somewhere.
– Giter
2 hours ago
But doesn't the question just become "How were WWII tanks scrapped after the Israeli War of Independence"? At some point, every single tank that isn't usable/on display today was either taken apart or abandoned in a scrapyard somewhere.
– Giter
2 hours ago
@Giter: Say what? Are you looking for an audit trail for every one of the hundred thousand + tanks built during and leading up to WW2? That just become a stupid question.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
@Giter: Say what? Are you looking for an audit trail for every one of the hundred thousand + tanks built during and leading up to WW2? That just become a stupid question.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
@Giter: Half of Germany was homeless by May 1945. Much of the Netherlands was within a few days of death by starvation. Recycling junk tanks lying around was a very low priority for years afterwards.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
@Giter: Half of Germany was homeless by May 1945. Much of the Netherlands was within a few days of death by starvation. Recycling junk tanks lying around was a very low priority for years afterwards.
– Pieter Geerkens
2 hours ago
2
2
Not an audit trail of anything specific, but the OP seemed more interested in the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that were scrapped in the years following WWII, not the (presumably) smaller number of vehicles that were reused in other conflicts.
– Giter
2 hours ago
Not an audit trail of anything specific, but the OP seemed more interested in the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that were scrapped in the years following WWII, not the (presumably) smaller number of vehicles that were reused in other conflicts.
– Giter
2 hours ago
2
2
The OP seems to be asking about the scrapping process in general. This answer doesn't seem to address that.
– user32121
2 hours ago
The OP seems to be asking about the scrapping process in general. This answer doesn't seem to address that.
– user32121
2 hours ago
add a comment |Â
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The last part of my answer on scuttling u-boats has a section on other weaponry (as requested by the OP there) with quite a few details and links on tanks etc.
– Lars Bosteen
2 hours ago
In reference to your statement: When reading about the fate of these vehicles, it's always said that these tanks were "scrapped" after the war for their resources ... Can you provide information on the various sources you read which always said that?
– Kerry L
1 hour ago
2
Is that a half track?
– Clint Eastwood
1 hour ago