Subdeacon Joe Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 One of the comments: Quote Can armor and sandbags fire guns and brew vodka? No? This is slav engineering at it's finest ladies and gentlemen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 *Ouch*! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 If you know very much about Stalin it makes perfect sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Willy 'n' Joe from Bill Mauldin's book, "Up Front". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 Willie and Joe knew, for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 My uncle had three "Ronsons" shot out from under him. Then he became a motorcycle dispatch rider and lost friends due to wires strung across roads, at shoulder height, to catch the unwary. He went back to tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 All our jeeps in Germany in the early 60s had wire catchers on the front bumper. Seems like some Germans did not get the memo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Seemed to recall photos of some WWII jeeps with a vertical bar welded to the center of the front bumper to break guillotine wires. This was necessary as most jeeps were driven with the windshield folded down so near-miss bullets, shrapnel, etc., wouldn't cause glass splinters to hit the occupants. The early Sherman tanks, did indeed, tend to "brew up" as the Brits put it, due to gasoline engines with high-octane aviation-grade gasoline as fuel. IIRC, later versions of the Sherman's got diesel engines that helped reduce conflagrations when hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 As an expedient for having along, extra sections of track were carried on the front of Shermans and did double duty as 'armor enhancement'. Uncle Woodrow was a tank sergeant with our troops who met the Russians at the Elbe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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