Surviving French WW1 and WW2 tank turrets Last update : 2 January 2018

Listed here are the French WW1 and WW2 tank turrets that still exist today.

Pierre-Olivier Buan, May 2007 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/fort_seclin/index.html

Renault FT cast turret – Musée du fort de Seclin (France) This turret is one of only 2 known of the early cast model, the second one is located at Bovington

Erik Ettrup - http://www.panzerworld.net/panzerturretsnorway

Renault FT turret – Most probably located on island of Hemnskjel (Norway) On the island of Hemnskjel were located two german coastal batteries and their artillery-group headquarter during WW2. The picture probably shows the turret mounted on a bunker for close defence of the HKAR I./975 headquarter (Håvard Hovdet)

“hugovk”, January 2006 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugovk/85341850/

Renault FT turret – Observation Post at Höllen, Søgne (Norway)

http://www.atlantikwall-research-norway.de/Touren_10_2005_Kristiansand.html

Renault FT turret – Observation post at Kvarodden, Kristiansand (Norway)

Håvard Hovdet, August 2012

Renault FT turret – on top of a bunker, Risør (Norway) Located at ex-german Heeres-Küsten-Batterie 35./979 Risør [4x10,5cm K 332 (f)] (Håvard Hovdet)

Håvard Hovdet, August 2012

SdKfz.7 – Arquebus Krigshistorisk Museum, Foerdesfjorden (Norway)

Richard Hearing, September 2012

First Renault FT turret – The Island German Occupation Museum, Guernsey (UK)

Richard Hearing, September 2012

Second Renault FT turret – The Island German Occupation Museum, Guernsey (UK)

Nick Drury, June 2010 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/13439092@N04/4709641499/

Renault FT turret – Battery Generaloberst Dollmann Pleinmont, Guernsey (UK)

Tønnes Schrøder, August 2008

Renault FT turret – Flyvestation Karup/Grove (Denmark) The turret was mounted on a standard Bauform 58c, and the bunker is still there, located just 50 meters from its current location (Tønnes Schrøder)

Walter Schwabe, October 2014

Renault FT turret – Militärhistorischen Museum der Bundeswehr, Dresden (Germany)

Georges Mazy

Renault FT turret – Musée de la police intégrée, Brussels (Belgium)

Oliver Wleklinski, October 2017

Renault FT turret – Operation Dynamo Museum, Dunkerque (France)

Marc Dierickx, October 2006

Renault FT turret – Maubeuge (France) The tank is a replica (or at least partial replica) with an original Girod turret (Marc Dierickx)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, July 2011

Renault FT turret – Le Grand Bunker Museum, Ouistreham (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2009

Renault FT turret – Utah Beach D-Day Museum, La Madeleine (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, March 2009 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/turret_saintmalo/index.html

Renault FT empty turret – Fort de la Cité d’Alet, Saint-Malo (France)

http://bunkersite.com/locations/france/bret-noord/morlaix/ker-porz.html

Renault FT empty turret – Unknown location Previously located in Ker Porz Striz, Cléder, near Roscoff (France). Has disappeared sometime around year 2017

Pierre-Olivier Buan, February 2007 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/stmarcel/index.html

Renault FT turret – Breton Resistance Museum, Saint-Marcel (France) This turret comes from Le Fort Aguet (near Saint Brévin les Pins – Saint Nazaire). It was discovered in 1994 on a private ground and the owner gave it to the Saint Marcel museum. It was dismounted from its original Tobruk and transferred to the museum, where it was cosmetically restored. The concrete Tobruk where it currently sits is a reproduction (“Le Mur de l’Atlantique en Bretagne” book, 2002)

http://bunkersite.eu/locations/france/nazaire/marcham.html

Renault FT turret – Private collection, Pornichet (France) This turret carries a 13.2mm machinegun

Jean-François Brillant, July 2008 - http://servir-et-defendre.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=519

Renault FT turret – Mobile Gendarmerie Armored Group, Camp de Satory, Versailles-Satory (France)

Tønnes Schrøder, July 2007

Renault FT turret – Fort de Leveau, Maubeuge (France)

Tønnes Schrøder, July 2007

Renault FT turret – Fort de la Salmagne, Maubeuge (France)

Alf van Beem, August 2012 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_de_Fermont_and_its_museum_-_Ex_FT17_turret.JPG

First Renault FT turret – Fort de Fermont, Fermont (France)

“Sander D”

Second Renault FT turret and Renaut FT TSF upper hull Fort de Fermont, Fermont (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, May 2017

Third Renault FT turret – Fort de Fermont, Fermont (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, May 2007 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/po_bambesch/index.html

Renault FT turret – Petit Ouvrage du Bambesch, Bambiderstroff (France)

Roger Davis, June 2010 - http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=13107

Renault FT turret – Fort Casso Museum, Rohrbach-les-Bitche (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, March 2009 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/fortcasso_rohrbach/index.html

Renault FT turret – Fort Casso Museum, Rohrbach-les-Bitche (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2011

Renault FT turret – MM Park, La Wantzenau (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, August 2007 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/sherman_hatten/index.html

Renault FT turret – Casemate Esch Museum, Hatten (France)

http://forum.worldwar.it/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=155&t=22883

Renault FT turret – Tavullia (Italy)

Mariusz Cielma, April 2008 - http://picasaweb.google.com/militarium.muzea/MuzeumWojskaPolskiegoOddziaFortCzerniakowski#

Renault FT turret – Polish Army Museum, Fort Czerniakowski, Warsaw (Poland)‫‏‬

“Stp Corbiere” - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=14464&start=30

APX-R turret – Wn Lewis Tower, St-Ouen, Jersey Island (UK)

“Stp Corbiere” - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=14464&start=15

APX-R turret – Somewhere on the Jersey Island (UK)

“Stp Corbiere” - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=14464&start=30

Third APX-R turret – Elizabeth Castle, Jersey Island (UK) Out of the 61 turrets in Jersey there are only 4 left now, the rest were lost to the scrap men (“Stp Corbiere”)

Michel Van Loon, June 2010 - http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=91804#91804

APX-R turret – For Freedom Museum, Knokke-Heist (Belgium)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, May 2009

APX-R turret – Saumur Tank Museum (France)

"portmanspad", June 2008 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/portmanspad/2599027434/

APX-R turret – Operation Dynamo Museum, Dunkerque (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, June 2008 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/turret_benerville/index.html

APX-R turret – Canisy Hill Battery, Benerville-sur-Mer (France) This turret was given by the Saumur Tank Museum (France AFVs register)

http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p70Y0QyqX9Nb0ZNcMZLMy6Q0SErTikft-RnbhRxtTKPdP3U6aa4mMH9FWg9Y6tK04QckyLAGBr99lXmiAhW-eg/

APX-R turret – Fort de Querqueville, Cherbourg (France)

http://bunkersite.com/locations/france/lorient/r35-merrien.html

APX-R turret – Port Merrien, Moëlan-sur-Mer (France) The turret was discovered in 1993 by Mr Van Meeven, a person interested in Atlantik Wall remains. It was upside-down, halfburied in the trench which allowed the access to the Tobruk, and covered with vegetation, so it was hidden for 49 years. Mr Van Meeven, helped by Moëlan townhall employees and friends of the St-Marcel Resistance Museum, took one day to save this old relic. After several hours, the turret was extracted from its hole with a 10-ton crane. It was cleaned and put on its original Tobruk. On the back of the turret were found French 1940 Tank Battalions markings, 2 red Ace of Heart on a white square. On the left side, there is a big hole in the armour, which comes from an explosive shell fired in 1945 from an US ship during an exercise (Maquette Garden Forum)

Massimo Foti, July 2015 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/massimofoti/32335409680/

APX-R turret – Musée de l’armée, Invalides, Paris (France)

E. Bourzeix - http://www.plongeesanssel.com/militaria/aude_st-pierre_-_tourelle_r35.html

APX-R turret – Saint-Pierre-sur-Mer (France)

France 40 véhicules, August 2015 - http://france40-vehicules.blogspot.fr/p/chantiers-en-cours.html

APX-R turret – Carry-le-Rouet (France)

“Admin”, November 2006 - http://sudwall.superforum.fr/provence-ouest-f4/point-d-appui-avec-tourelle-r35-le-rove-13-t104.htm

APX-R turret – Tunnel du Rove, Le Rove (France)

http://www.dolin.estranky.cz/fotoalbum/FOTO-1939-1945/renault-r-35-turret-45mm

APX-R turret – Local museum, near Stary Tekov (Slovakia) The turret was found in river Hron near Stary Tekov (a village in southern Slovakia). It was rebuild to house a Russian 45mm gun. Apparently, this turret comes from a R-35 that served with Romanian troops in 1945 (Petr “Dolin” Dolezal and Jan Loncik)

“alvincent”, March 2010 - http://www.panoramio.com/photo/33670589

APX-R turret – Along the QL3 road, near Mai Lâm, North-East of Hà Nội (Viet-Nam)

Edwin E. Moise, 1989 - http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/EdMoise/vmil1.html

APX-R turret – Along the Hà Nội-Hai Phong road (Viet-Nam)

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Somua S 35 turret – Vadsø (Northern Norway) The turret is blown up, and placed on a Rs 58

Walter Schwabe, October 2014

Somua S 35 turret – Militärhistorischen Museum der Bundeswehr, Dresden (Germany)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, March 2009 - http://the.shadock.free.fr/Tanks_in_France/remember_lehon/index.html

Somua S 35 turret – Remember Museum, Lehon, near Dinan (France)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2011

First Somua S 35 turret – ASPHM Association, La Wantzenau (France) This turret was bought from the former Royan gap museum, which closed few years ago. The turret was auctionned in May 2008

Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2011

Second Somua S 35 turret – ASPHM Association, La Wantzenau (France)

http://www.lignemaginot.com/ligne/belgique/apx/s1/index.htm

APX2 B turret – On top of a bunker, Sougné-Remouchamps, near Liège (Belgium) This turret is one of the 25 APX2 B tank turrets that were delivered to the Belgian army before 1940

Ondrej Filip, July 2008

Another APX2 B turret – On top of a bunker, Remouchamps, near Liège (Belgium) This turret is one of the 25 APX2 B tank turrets that were delivered to the Belgian army before 1940

Pierre-Olivier Buan & Edouard Verwaerde, April 2016

APX2 B turret – Heintz Barracks, Bastogne (Belgium) This turret is one of the 25 APX2 B tank turrets that were delivered to the Belgian army before 1940. It comes from the Zeebrugge area

Erik Ettrup - http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=136784&sid=d851f8fd225df219f18d9932bcc8db1f&start=15

Renault FT turret – Unknown exact location (Norway)

http://www.festungstnazaire.bravehost.com/PANZ/N30.htm

Renault FT turret – Unknown location This turret was photographied at Saint-Brévin, near Saint-Nazaire, where it was discovered in 2001 or 2002 during ground clearing. Today it is not on the tobruk anymore, its current location is unknown (www.festungstnazaire.bravehost.com/)

I’m looking for photos of those turrets : Another French WW2 tank turret located on a bunker, near Liège (Belgium) Any French WW1 or WW2 tank turret that I forgot….

This document is a synthesis of photos and information published on the web. I would like to thank the people who took these photos and put them on their websites, or sent them to me, and also those who helped me doing these lists (particularly people of the AFV News Discussion Board). For any question, you can email me at [email protected] Main page : http://the.shadock.free.fr/Surviving_Panzers.html