Following part 1 of this series, next on the agenda is St. Gloriana Girls Academy and Saunders University High School. I’m basically going to tackle the schools in order of appearance.
Darjeeling
Darjeeling the elegant (well, she thinks so 🙂 ) commander of St. Gloriana’s commands a Churchill Mk VII. Interestingly the only Mk VII I recall seeing at Bovington (pictured below) was the Crocodile flamethrower variant:
Yekaterinburg had a Mk IV:
Here’s Darjeeling entering into hot pursuit in episode 4:
There is of course no truth to the rumour that Churchills were made by carving them out of a single block of steel.
Two blocks were used. The turret was separate. 🙂
The Matildas
Most of the rest of Gloriana drove Matilda IIs, and here’s one that I saw at Yekaterinburg
And here’s one of them loyally following Darjeeling in pursuit:
The Crusader
At least one Crusader pops up in Girls Und Panzer Der Film, but it’s not streaming anywhere that I can get (legal) screenshots from. So you’ll just have to settle for a real one from Bovington:
The Sherman
Moving onto Saunders and I’m not even going to try to run down all the Sherman variants that they were using. So here’s your basic Sherman as seen in Yekaterinburg:
And here’s the typically enthusiastic Kay enjoying the start of their match in episode 5:
The Sherman Firefly
The one variant I will call out is Naomi’s Firefly as seen at Bovington:
And here’s Naomi in pursuit of Miho’s tank in episode 6:
Conclusion
And that’s it for Gloriana and Saunders. Next up Pravda and maybe Kuromorimine
Hey! I love Darjeeling! Best Girl that isn’t from Oorai!
A fine choice indeed. Although I tend to like Maho more, mostly because of the subtlety of her relationship with Miho.
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