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Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 5712/F/4

With the gun removed we get an unusual view of the trunnions and the interior of the mantlet. The rust, which looks quite bad here, was quite superficial and easily removed.

The gun itself, the dreaded eighty-eight, was now dismantled and cleaned. Packing between the barrel and its sleeve had been damaged, now it could be repaired. Notice that the muzzle brake has been removed and lies alongside the gun.

Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 5871/C/2

Click to find out how to purchase this photo. Tank Museum photo No. 5869/A/2

The most unusual view of a Tiger you will ever see. ABRO staff were so thorough that they even photographed inside the barrel of the 88mm and took cast impressions of the rifling. These revealed that the gun had already suffered considerable internal damage caused by the burning effect of firing. This is what it looks like, inside the eighty-eight!

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