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Hi Gilles,

Yes, I have seen that tank. It is in the Piana del Orme museum in Italy.......an absolutely fabulous museum out in the country. The museum has several seperate buildings that each house incredible dioramas of different battles in Italy (Cassino, etc.)

The tank is huge and has it's own room........so it's quite dramatic when you walk in and see it. It does have the two propellers and the 'curtain' that goes up to 'hide it'!

If memory serves me right, this was found by some fishermen in the Salerno Bay. They kept noticing schools of fish in this one area, that wasn't a reef, etc. There was a wonderful documentary on the National Geographic channel a few years ago about the search and 'rescue' of the tank. I think it was called 'Mysteries of the Deep'........it was really good. I think it was that specific tank. In the documentary, Al Dietrich is also filmed walking along the beach. That was our first trip back to Italy that I took........some historians located us in Paestum and filmed Al.

I can send you pictures from the museum, if you want to see them.

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