M - 4's

**CINDERS** · 08-25-2015 11:54 AM

Two pics of M-4's extremis but the Ardennes one would be like a fridge inside that tank....

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**vintage hunter** · 08-25-2015 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by CINDERS

the Ardennes one would be like a fridge inside that tank....

They had to run the engine for 10-15 minutes every couple hours to keep them from freezing so it was probably a lot warmer inside than out.

**browningautorifle** · 08-25-2015 12:27 PM

I've done my time in armor in winter and didn't like it much. If your heater was punk, you were hosed. Mine died and only because I was driver I was OK, until you shut it down in the hide and it turned into a fridge.

**HOOKED ON HISTORY** · 08-25-2015 06:17 PM

Nice weenie roaster & matching beer cooler.

**oldpaul** · 08-25-2015 09:01 PM

In Korea the only tank (M-48) in my platoon with a heater that worked was the platoon Sargent's and I wasn't on it. I would wrap my sleeping bag around me and with the "Mickey Mouse" boots, the cold was tolerable, mostly. Tom

**browningautorifle** · 08-25-2015 09:03 PM

And...I always smelled like Diesel.

**Peter Laidler** · 08-26-2015 07:05 AM

And when it got to being even moderately warm, the insides cooked. Even on the mildest of days inside our Centurions, the crews worked with overalls undone, tops off and arms wrapped around the waist and still sweated their conkers off! How they ever got used to that nauseating stench of petrol, oil, cordite and main charge propellant that the fume extractors barely coped with I'll never know!

Great pictures!

**CINDERS** · 08-26-2015 10:03 AM

Guess the tank second picture, the first one is about the last thing a M-4 wanted to meet head on infact I was disappointed in Fury that 131 only really made a cameo appearance then again the only running Tiger in the world why risk it

**browningautorifle** · 08-26-2015 10:35 AM

Second tank is a Comet?

**Peter Laidler** · 08-26-2015 02:14 PM

I remember seeing Comets on Salisbury Plain and Warcop ranges as hard targets in the mid 60's. There were still half decent Comet hulls on the anti-tank ranges in Hong Kong when the poms left in 1997 so I was told by one of the last to leave. They survived a long time as they only really got battered by light anti-tank stuff and practice 120mm

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