18 Dec 2024 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

[Bob Womack]

You can feel the cold in your bones.

Bob

[CINDERS]

I'm not sure who had the worst of it there Bob being inside the tank would be like a refrigerator ICR if I ever heard a Sherman having a crew compartment heater or the PBI lads slogging along in that snow & ice.
Germany's Panther had a ducting system on the left hand rear radiator fan that took hot air ducting it into the crew compartment as a heating system.

[Mark in Rochester]

Sherman tanks had no heaters and the air to the engine was drawn from the crew compartment at minimum they were out of the wind



M4A4 Cutaway: 1 – Lifting ring, 2 – Ventilator, 3 – Turret hatch, 4 – Periscope, 5 – Turret hatch race, 6 – Turret seat, 7 – Gunner's seat, 8 – Turret seat, 9 – Turret, 10 – Air cleaner, 11 – Radiator filler cover, 12 – Air cleaner manifold, 13 – Power unit, 14 – Exhaust pipe, 15 – Track idler, 16 – Single water pump, 17 – Radiator, 18 – Generator, 19 – Rear propeller shaft, 20 – Turret basket, 21 – Slip ring, 22 – Front propeller shaft, 23 – Suspension bogie, 24 – Transmission, 25 – Main drive sprocket, 26 – Driver's seat, 27 – Machine gunner's seat, 28 – 75 mm gun, 29 – Drivers hatch, 30 – M1919A4 machine gun.