Surviving M32 Tank Recovery Vehicles

Last update : 2 January 2023

Listed here are the M32 series Tank Recovery Vehicles that still exist today.

John Berwick, 2021

M32B1 TRV – Army storage area, Nymindegab (Denmark)

Converted from a Pressed Steel Car M4A1. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

http://leicestermodellers.weebly.com/m32-arv---kosovo.html

M32B1 TRV – REME Museum of Technology, Lyneham (UK)

Converted from a PSC M4A1. This tank has got the automatic tow hook mod in in 1945. It comes from the outskirts of Pristina, Kosovo
 Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2014 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/13963542@N08/sets/72157647957518545

M32A1B1 TRV – Auto + Technik museum, Sinsheim (Germany)

Converted from a Pressed Steel Car M4A1

Michael Lembo, May 2012

M32A1B1 TRV – US Army base, Grafenwöhr (Germany)

Converted from a Pacific Car and Foundry M4A1
 Mathieu George, August 2013

M32 TRV – Technikmuseum, Speyer (Germany)

Converted from a PSC M4

Pierre-Olivier Buan, Septembe 2014

M32B1 TRV – Heintz Barracks, Bastogne (Belgium)

Serial Number 224, converted by Pressed Steel Car in April, 1943. Built as an M4A1 by Lima LW
 Ivo Rigter - http://www.afvregister.org/Details.aspx?AfvId=4799&Page=0

M32 TRV – Depot of the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History
Landen (Belgium)
Converted from a PSC M4

http://www.armyrecognition.com/europe/Belgique/exhibition/Tanks_in_Town_2005/Tanks_in_Town_2005_pictures_gallery.htm

M32B1 TRV – Private collection (Belgium)

Converted from a Pressed Steel Car M4A1. Serial Number 1530, built by Federal Machine and Welder in February, 1945
 Pierre-Olivier Buan, June 2011

M32B1 TRV – Saumur Tank Museum (France)

Serial Number 793, converted by Pressed Steel Car in November, 1944. Built as an M4A1 by Pressed Steel Car

Pierre-Olivier Buan, May 2022

M32 TRV – Omaha Overlord Museum, Colleville-sur-Mer (France)

Converted from a Pressed Steel Car M4
 Pierre-Olivier Buan, June 2019

M32B1 TRV – Private collection (France)

Converted from a Pressed Steel Car M4A1

Pierre-Olivier Buan, September 2012

M32B1 TRV – Museo della Motorizzazione Militare della Cecchignola, Rome (Italy)
Serial Number 1839, converted by Baldwin LW in January, 1945. Built as an M4A1 by Lima LW. This tank has got the automatic tow
hook modification in 1945
 Giuseppe Franzoni, December 2014

M32B3 TRV – Museo Memoriale della Libertà, Bologna (Italy)

Serial Number 638, converted by Pressed Steel Car in September, 1944. Converted from Serial Number 11619, an M4A3 built by Ford
in December, 1942. This vehicle was part of Jacques Littlefield Collection in California , it has got the automatic tow hook modification
in 1945

Pierantonio Farina - http://www.ferreamole.it/contributi/censimento/m32_ariete.htm

M32B1 TRV – Caserma "De Carli" di Cordenons (Italy)

This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945
 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5343110599057523&set=gm.2230782267072063

M32B1 TRV – Panzerfarm, Kęszycki Brothers Collection (Poland)

This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

Κωνσταντίνου Πανιτσίδη, November 2006 - http://www.redstar.gr/Foto_red/Exibition/MuseumGR_Aulon.html

First M32B1 TRV – Hellenic Army Armor Museum, inside the Armor Training Center,
Avlona, near Athens (Greece)
Converted from Lima LW M4A1. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945
 Sotiris Kon, January 2006

Second M32B1 TRV – Hellenic Army Armor Museum, inside the Armor Training Center,
Avlona, near Athens (Greece)

Κωνσταντίνου Πανιτσίδη - http://www.redstar.gr/Foto_red/Exibition/MuseumGR_Aulon.html

M32A1B3 TRV – Hellenic Army Armor Museum, inside the Armor Training Center,
Avlona, near Athens (Greece)
Converted from a Ford M4A3. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945
 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1607983385895980&set=gm.983192811780558&type=3&theater

M32B1 TRV – Zonguldak (Turkey)

This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

Jim Goetz, March 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/

M32 TRV – Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Latrun (Israel)

Converted from Serial Number 12203, an M4A3 built by Ford in May, 1943. Now equipped with a radial engine, M4 engine deck and
rear engine doors (Israeli conversion). This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945
 Jim Goetz, March 2017 - https://www.facebook.com/

M32A1B1 TRV – Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Latrun (Israel)

Converted from a PSC M4A1. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

Massimo Foti, May 2017 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/massimofoti/32501909997/in/photostream/

M32A1B3 TRV – Batey ha-Osef Museum, Tel Aviv (Israel)

Converted from a Ford M4A3. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945
 Pierre-Olivier Buan, March 2020

M32B1 TRV – School of Armour Museum, Tempe, Bloemfontein (South Africa)

Converted by Federal Machine and Welder in late 1944/early 1945. Built as an M4A1 by Lima LW

Image from Google Maps

M32B2 TRV – Pakistan Army Museum, Lahore (Pakistan)

This is a Pakistani M32 conversion with a Staghound turret and non-standard lifting boom
 Image from Google Maps

M32B1 TRV – Pakistan Army Museum, Lahore (Pakistan)

Unknown source

M32A1B3 TRV – Pakistan Army Museum, Lahore (Pakistan)

 Raihan S.R. Bakhsh, February 2014 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/raihanshahzad/14848595368/

M32A1B3 TRV – Ayub National Park, Rawalpindi (Pakistan)

Raihan S.R. Bakhsh, February 2014 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/raihanshahzad/15031741231/

M32B1 TRV – Ayub National Park, Rawalpindi (Pakistan)

 Muhammad Umair

M32 or M32B2 TRV – Ayub National Park, Rawalpindi (Pakistan)

This is a Pakistani M32 conversion with a Staghound turret
 Uman Ansari, 2007 - http://www.pakdef.info/museums/cmt_golra_gallery.html

At least five M32 TRVs – Army scrapyard, Central Mechanical Transport and Stores
Depot, Rawalpindi (Pakistan)
 Uman Ansari, 2007 - http://www.pakdef.info/museums/cmt_golra_gallery.html

M32A1B3 TRV – Army scrapyard, Central Mechanical Transport and Stores Depot,
Rawalpindi (Pakistan)

Image from Google Maps

M32B1 TRV – Bangabandhu Military Museum, Bijoy Sarani, Dhaka (Bangladesh)

 June 2010 - http://blog.xuite.net/maomi/Food01/34559980

M32B1 TRV – Armor Academy and military base, HuKou, Hsinchu County (Taiwan)
Converted from a Pressed Steel Car M4A1. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

http://blair-military.blogspot.com/2011/08/m32b1.html

M32B1 TRV – Longgang road, Jhongli City, Taoyuan (Taiwan)

 http://blog.goo.ne.jp/603duda1/m/201411

M32B1 TRV – JGSDF equipment display, Camp Fuji (Japan)

This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

http://type61tank.la.coocan.jp/sub-m32.htm

M32B1 TRV – JGSDF equipment displey, Camp Fuji (Japan)

Converted from an M4A1 built by Pacific Car and Foundry
 David Levy, September 2021

M32A1B3 – Private Collection (USA)

Currently displayed or stored at the Museum of American Armor, Old Bethpage, NY (USA). Serial Number 647, converted by Pressed
Steel Car in September, 1944. Converted from SN 11564, an M4A3 built by Ford in December, 1942

Lorén Hannah, March 2011 - http://www.vgbimages.com/AFV-Photos/FUTURE-US-Army-Ordnance-Museum-F/i-Rp8NTk3

M32A1B3 TRV “Jan C” – Ordnance Circle, Fort Lee U.S. Army

Ordnance Museum, VA (USA)
Serial Number 273 (dataplate), indicating a Pressed Steel Car conversion originally accepted in June, 1944. The unit was "Rebuilt By
R.I.A." [Rock Island Arsenal] in Illinois, and the year "1949" is stamped in the space at the bottom of the plate. Converted from Serial
Number 11719, an M4A3 built by Ford in February, 1943. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945
 Roger Davis

M32A1B1 TRV – U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection, Fort Benning, GA (USA)
Formerly displayed at Keyes Park, converted from a Pressed Steel Car M4A1

Mike Haines, July 2013 - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.523928431011506.1073741830.417632248307792&type=3

M32B1 TRV – Sam Winer Motors, Akron, OH (USA)

Converted from a Pressed Steel Car M4A1
 Lorén Hannah, July 2011 - http://www.vgbimages.com/

M32B3 TRV – American Legion Post, Circleville, OH (USA)

Serial Number 560, converted by Pressed Steel Car in August, 1944. Converted from Serial Number 11903, an M4A3 built by Ford in
March, 1943. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

Roger Davis

M32A1B3 TRV – US Army Center for Military History Storage Facility, Anniston, AL (USA)
Formerly at the US Army Ordnance Museum, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Used to be on the mile of tanks, date of acquisition
20/06/1950 (Rick Eshleman, Afv Discussion Board, 07/2015). Converted from a Ford M4A3. This tank has got the automatic tow hook
modification in 1945
 Alf Adams, 2005 - http://s698.photobucket.com/

M32B1 TRV – US Army Center for Military History Storage Facility, Anniston, AL (USA)
Formerly at the Fort Snelling Military Museum, Minneapolis Saint-Paul, MN. Converted from a Lima M4A1
 Paul Hannah, 2008 - http://www.vgbimages.com/AFV-Photos/Russell-Military-Museum-Zion-IL/n-QWvWDB/i-ZB8zVbw

M32A1B3 TRV – Russell Military Museum, Zion, IL (USA)

Converted from a Ford M4A3. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

https://www.facebook.com/zach.liollio/photos

M32A1B3 TRV – National Museum of Military Vehicles, Dubois, WY (USA)

This vehicle was part of the Budge Collection in the UK, and then of Jacques Littlefield’s Collection in California. Former Israeli vehicle.
Converted from a Ford M4A3. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945. It is probably SN 11727, built as a Ford
M4A3(75) and later converted to M32B3, and then M32A1B3
 Giuseppe Franzoni, December 2019

M32B3 TRV – Smith and Edwards Co., Pleasant View, near Ogden, UT (USA)
Serial Number 600, USA Number 40155174, converted by Pressed Steel Car in August, 1944. Converted from Serial Number 2925,
an M4A3 built by Ford in November, 1942

“Sentinel México”, November 2015 - https://www.facebook.com/SentinelMexico1/

 Unknown source, photo provided by Patrik Krista

Three M32 TRVs – Still in service in the Mexican Army

These three vehicles were received in 1947

Unknown source, photo provided by Fano Suarez

M32 TRV – "Quebra Galho", 8º Batalhão Logístico, Porto Alegre (Brazil) – running c.
 Jim Goetz, July 2012

M32B1 TRV – Rinconada de Maipú (Chile)

Serial Number 1841, converted by Baldwin Locomotive Works in January, 1945. This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification
in 1945

Gonzalo Godoy - http://web.inter.nl.net/users/spoelstra/g104/rch.htm

M32B1 TRV – "Dragones" Regiment Museum, Punta Arenas (Chile)

This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945
 Sylvain Protois, July 2019

M32B1 TRV – Military base, Antofagasta (Chile)

This tank has got the automatic tow hook modification in 1945

Pierre-Olivier Buan, May 2017

T14E1 TRV – National War and Resistance Museum, Overloon (Netherlands)

The tanks that the US Marines would use for the invasion of Japan were M4A3(75)and M4A3(105) with HVSS. For the sake of
uniformity, in April 1945, the USMC requested 50 Tank Recovery Vehicles based on the M4A3 with HVSS. In the Summer of 1945,
Baldwin Locomotive and International Harvester completed 80 Tank Retriever conversions based on new production M4A3(105)HVSS
Shermans pulled from the line at Chrysler. These conversions were given the nomenclature "T14E1" (Joe DeMarco)
 Budi Nurtjahjo Djarot

T14E1 TRV – Military base, Cimahi (Indonesia)

That appears to be a T14E1 that was converted “back” to M32A1B3 for whatever reason (Joe DeMarco)

Pierre-Olivier Buan, June 2008

M32 TRV wreck – Fire range, eastern France

 Michael Lembo, September 2011

M32B1 TRV wreck – Fire range, US Army base, Grafenwöhr (Germany)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/599117760244236/permalink/916644835158192/

M32B3 TRV wreck – Bolu (Turkey)

 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10102993098623223&set=pcb.800994599964222&type=3&theater

M32B1 TRV wreck – Fire range, Fort Riley, KS (USA)

Jim Wilmore, November 2019

M32B1 TRV wreck – Undisclosed fire range, South-Eastern US (USA)

 Τ. Μετσοβίτης - http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/dimi_labada/page4_realphotos_M32ARV_GR.htm

Μ32B1 TRV – Unknown military area (Greece)

Τ. Μετσοβίτης - http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/dimi_labada/page4_realphotos_M32ARV_GR.htm

Μ32B1 TRV – Unknown military area (Greece)

 http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/showphoto.php?photo=42856&title=img-3207&cat=797

Μ32A1B3 TRV – Unknown location (Iraq)

Photo provided by Joe DeMarco

Μ32 TRV – Unknown location

Converted from a Baldwin M4. Comes from ex-Yugolsavia
 I’m looking for photos of those vehicles:

M32B1 TRV – Private collection (Italy)

and any vehicles that I forgot….

This document is a compilation of photos published on the web. I would like to thank
especially Rafał Białęcki, who deserved the most of the job on this document, and also
the people who took these photos and put them on their websites, or sent them to me,
and those who helped me doing these lists (particularly people of the AFV News
Discussion Board). For any question, you can email me at soldat_ryan@hotmail.com

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