16-235 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

M4 Sherman Dozer Task from Force X of the 3rd Armored Division and 39th Infantry Brigade Crossing Siegfried Line at Roetgen

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[CINDERS]

Think they called them Dragons Teeth obstacles, does the Sherman pictured have a blade on the front or is it a flail tank. Just asking.

[browningautorifle]

Attachment 74985It is the dozer, note the pointy thing up front of the hull...

I often wondered how long it took the Germans to remove those dragon's teeth from the countryside after?

[Sentryduty]

It seems they are taking their time at it...

[browningautorifle]

pointy thing is a shield to protect hydraulic ram

Yes, it was the differentiation I was indicating between the flail and the dozer. The flail doesn't have it.

they are taking their time

Apparently so. A man could have worked on that as labor(I knew one that did) and grown old looking at them sitting there.

[frankderrico]

Jim, pointy thing is a shield to protect hydraulic ram that raises and lowers the dozer blade.

Best Regards.....Frank

[Mark in Rochester]

This article lists those elements of the Siegfried Line (German: Westwall) that have survived or whose function is still clearly recognisable. The structures are listed roughly from north to south and grouped by the individual construction programmes involved in building the Siegfried Line.

List of surviving elements of the Siegfried Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia