Picture of the day
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I think it was mostly to bolster the morale of the crews. It would have had no effect against AP projectiles, but perhaps it would have allowed a bit of stand off against the shaped charge projectiles of the panzerfaust/panzerschreck. Tank crews resorted to all sorts of expedients to add a bit of protection to the Sherman incl logs, sandbags, pieces of armor, pieces of track and even cement.
The jeep did the job just fine. We soldiered on with them in one form or another for 40 plus yrs and used them as a jack of all trades from bringing up the rations and ammo, operating radio re-broadcast stations, ambulances, and even mounting the 106mm RCL. They were a caution to drive though. The short wheelbase made them a caution on gravel roads and many of us suffered from "jeep ear" from the high pitched whine of the transfer case when driven at highway speeds.
I could see the cast steel tracks absorbing SOME of the AP round energy that might have made the underlying amor a little more effective, but who knows? I would;t want to be in a tank to try and find out.
Some more captured arms piles...
Huge outdoor piles of K98k rifles supposedly in Russian controlled Europe, late 1945. Ever wonder where all those RC K98k's were stored before being refurbished sloppily? They needed it after sitting in giant mountain piles open to the elements for months on end...
Dunkirk...
May '43, North Africa:
Making a nice big pile of K98k's in North Africa, just prior to burning them:
Japanese guns being barged to the ocean for dumping in late '45:
Battlefield pickup Mosins, being stacked prior to going back into action...
Excellent condition Mauser actions waiting to get listed on the EE...
Ans some M1917's also waiting for EE listing...
Huge outdoor piles of K98k rifles supposedly in Russian controlled Europe, late 1945. Ever wonder where all those RC K98k's were stored before being refurbished sloppily? They needed it after sitting in giant mountain piles open to the elements for months on end...
Dunkirk...
May '43, North Africa:
Making a nice big pile of K98k's in North Africa, just prior to burning them:
Japanese guns being barged to the ocean for dumping in late '45:
Battlefield pickup Mosins, being stacked prior to going back into action...
Excellent condition Mauser actions waiting to get listed on the EE...
Ans some M1917's also waiting for EE listing...
Dark Alley Dan
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Hey, this isn't the "Heartbreaking Goddamn Horrorshow Picture of the Day" thread... 
Sad pics, but in the day they were taken, pretty normal. A lot of stuff around and no use for it locally. Treat it like cordwood, up to and including burning a bunch. Why not?
Sad pics, but in the day they were taken, pretty normal. A lot of stuff around and no use for it locally. Treat it like cordwood, up to and including burning a bunch. Why not?
It makes sense during or just after wartime. Do you honestly want to allocate valuable time spent inventorying, stockpiling, and guarding mountains of weapons and using valuable warehouse space to store millions of captured enemy weapons that your troops have no need for? There is a time and place to care for captured , sure, but at the time much of any usable space would have been dedicated to wartime production needs, food and munitions storage, and other critical uses I feel safe in thinking.
It seems like a huge waste 70 years later, but that is just the way of war.
It seems like a huge waste 70 years later, but that is just the way of war.
And that my friends is why in the end the Sherman was better than the German tanks.
During the Pacific island hoping campaign once an Island had been subdued the American just left all the equipment there took the troops of and moved on. It was amazing how much stuff we would come across when I worked in the jungles of New Guinea. None of it was usable of course after 40 years or so but the shear volume of stuff was amazing.
Dark Alley Dan
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Ja, der Verdammt Amerkaner could produce, but ze Germans alzo learned from Henrich Ford:
Stugs, anyone?
Dark Alley Dan
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Und a nice, clear profile of a factory-fresh Panther:
I think we can all be thankful that the Germans finished the war with the fully upgraded Stugs and Panthers, and didn't start the war with them. If those were the tank destroyer and primary tank they started out with, and produced them in the quantities that they produced the Panzer IV's...
Glad I wasn't under that lot.
And some M1917's also waiting for EE listing...
Take a closer look. There are No1MkIII's, No4's and some Thompsons. Interesting that a lot of butt plates are missing. Possibly re purposing the brass?
Likely removed to sell as scrap brass.
Donny Fenn1
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Our neighbor behind us growing up on the farm who was from a pretty well off Alberta family to start with and was with the army in Europe as a tanker made a whole lot more money going and picking up the US cast offs from runway building in the Pacific. Those machines then went on to build a lot of the highways in Alberta for his families company and others. Very interesting life.
