Improvised "Yankee" Armor in the Former Eastern Bloc

Soviet state film studios  made  extensive use of visually modified T-34s and T-44 tanks to portray German Tiger and Panther tanks in films about the Great Patriotic War.   Film footage of these vehicles is so common that many World War II documentaries  include images of Russian "Tigers." After the Iron Curtain came down most of these prop vehicles were scraped along with tens of thousands of other Warsaw Pact AFVs.  The German website Militärtechnik documents the fate of two of these film prop T-34s in East Germany.  What makes these vehicles unique is that they are not "Tigers."  These vehicles were visually modified to play the role of Cold War American tanks.  I have yet to determine when these vehicles were converted or in what films they were used. 

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