User talk:Clint Grike

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Hello, Clint Grike, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Banning, California. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Banning tank
Clink, I presume you have a copy of Coulson's book. Can you check for the exact type of tank? The Stuart tank did not have an M4 variant. Perhaps this was an M5 Sherman tank. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 14:51, 11 March 2015 (UTC) Also, can you clarify which museum. I'm looking at this page and the Richmond Museum link. The RM page does not show a tank in the picture and the museum seems to be dedicated to the settlement by the Byrnes. Thanks. 15:01, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Quite correct. It is a typo, I meant M3. I am chair of the board of trustees at the museum at Richmond and know the tank personally. It is parked on the lawn of what used to be the Presbyterian manse, now settler museum. We at the museum published all Charm Coulson's books. Clint is an alias. My actual name is Rev. Brian J van Niekerk (Presbyterian). The Sherman superseded the M3 and therefore our troops in the 6th armoured division were issued with shermans instead for the Italian campaign. The M3 tanks were probably used for other duties away from the front. In due course I will find more information about the tank but thought the connection with her sponsors are worth remembering in our allied effort to defeat the axis. There are some interesting parallels in the settler history of Banning and Richmond that I would like to explore at a future time (not via the platform of wikipedia) even if only for my own interest.



Clint Grike (talk) 18:19, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. BTW, this link may interest you: https://www.facebook.com/clint.grike – S. Rich (talk) 19:58, 11 March 2015 (UTC)