Monument Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/monument/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:50:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Vimoutiers Tiger Tank https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/vimoutiers-tiger-tank/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/vimoutiers-tiger-tank/#respond Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:38:38 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7014 The Tiger Tank parked by the side of the road down into Vimoutiers in the Orne dept of Normandy is a well known historic monument left over from WW2. “Wait! You dragged us 20 kilometres off our route to see THIS?” said my partner. “Yes, obvs!” She had a point. These days Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger […]

The post Vimoutiers Tiger Tank appeared first on Mechtraveller.

]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/vimoutiers-tiger-tank/feed/ 0 The Mitchell Monument, Oregon https://mechtraveller.com/2017/01/mitchell-monument-oregon/ https://mechtraveller.com/2017/01/mitchell-monument-oregon/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:42:29 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=2019 I had heard of the Japanese WW2 balloon bomb campaign, but until I was reading David Hambling’s new book, Swarm Troopers – How small drones will conquer the world *, I hadn’t been aware that there had been civilian casualties. In fact these were the only deaths on the continental United States caused by enemy […]

The post The Mitchell Monument, Oregon appeared first on Mechtraveller.

]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2017/01/mitchell-monument-oregon/feed/ 1