17-015 Garand Picture of the Day - Anzio

[Mark in Rochester]

Soldiers of the 1st Armored Division U.S. pass downed and burnt tank M4 'Sherman' in the area of ​​Anzio.

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[fboyj]

Already started the salvage process. Motor might be gone and the TC's machine gun is missing.

[matthanne1]

I was thinking marked off a mine area. Ruptured hull over the area where the mine hit, rolled track forward, too. Discolored turret- burned after blast? Would help explain the empty bay. Hope the crew got out first.

[CINDERS]

I am just wondering what the G I (who's head you can just see) is saying to his mate the last G I "Hey Joe, didn't you say you would be safer in a tank......"
Couple of open hatches may indicate escape hopefully but could also be like this retrieval from a brewed up M-4 as indicated in this video. (be warned it is graphic)
https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&r...44224172,d.dGc

[#1oilman]

A very gruesome task to say the least

[browningautorifle]

I suspect a catastrophic explosion in the M4. The right side is welded armor and the top lifted like that would be a HUGE explosion. The side bulged out would also...I wouldn't expect the crew made it out.

[CINDERS]

Jim would the Teller mine do that sort of catastrophic damage to an M-4

[browningautorifle]

would the Teller mine do that sort of catastrophic damage to an M-4

That's what they were for. Read this...

Anti-tank mines with this type of fuze were capable of inflicting much more damage to armored vehicles.[2] This was demonstrated numerous times in the Normandy Campaign. On June 8th, 1944, a Sherman tank was accompanying the 1st Ranger Battalion in an attack on the Maisy battery. It ran over a Tellermine and was blown to pieces, with a total crew loss. Sergeant John Robert "Bob" Slaughter describes the scene: "The explosive energy from that hidden teller mine sent the 32-ton Sherman tank into the ditch on its side. This scene echoed the bloody, grotesque carnage of D-Day. One minute they were healthy young men, and the next minute they were bloody arms and legs wrapped around bloody torsos. We found body parts and shoes with the feet still stuck in them twenty-five yards away."

[browningautorifle]

It ran over a Tellermine and was blown to pieces, with a total crew loss.

And that pointedly, is what an AT mine is for. Imagine stacking several for better effect?

[Bill Hollinger]

That poor Ford GPW looks beat up