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    12 May 20 Garand Picture of the Day

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    Neat pic, Sherman with the added plate outside the ammo bin, troops wearing the early camouflage that lasted days after landing...
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    Yeah, but where's their mounted Garandicon spotting rifle?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Womack View Post
    mounted Garandicon spotting rifle
    Did they make one for howitzers? Or anti tank guns...
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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    with the added plate outside the ammo bin
    I always wondered the reason for those plates welded on the sides of Sherman tanks. Would it have been a factory fitment or added later in the field?

    Is that a Germanicon 251 half track, in the background, behind the 2nd soldier from the left?

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    [QUOTE=Flying10uk;474586]I always wondered the reason for those plates welded on the sides of Sherman tanks. Would it have been a factory fitment or added later in the field?

    Added for an aiming point for Germanicon tankers





    At first, a partial remedy to ammunition fires in the M4 was found in 1943 by welding 1-inch thick (25 mm) appliqué armor plates to the sponson sides over the ammunition stowage bins, though there was doubt that these had any effect. Later models moved ammunition stowage to the hull floor, with water jackets surrounding each stowage bin. The practice, known as wet stowage, reduced the chance of fire after a hit to about 15 percent. The Sherman gained grim nicknames like "Zippo" (after the cigarette lighter), "Ronson" (because "it lights the first time, every time"). The latter story has been challenged on the grounds that Ronson did not begin using the slogan until the 1950s. [103] and "Tommycooker" (by the Germans, who referred to Britishicon soldiers as "Tommies"; a tommy cooker was a World War I-era trench stove). Fuel fires occasionally occurred, but such fires were far less common and less deadly than ammunition fires. In many cases, the fuel tank of the Sherman was found intact after a fire. Tankers described "fierce, blinding jets of flame", which is inconsistent with gasoline-related fires
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    A tank cooking from the propellant of the ammo is indeed fierce, it's like a blowtorch with the oxygen turned way up. To educate in what it would look like, take a can of smokeless powder and set it on the ground and light the open neck. The rush of flame is identical. If the ammo cooks or goes off, the tank is separated in several pieces.

    During action the remains of unburned powder floated around the turret and could catch fire in little whiffs like coal dust. A friend of mine said he would constantly be getting singed because he was hairy like a gorilla...
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