Facebook: Friends of the Tank Museum

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It was to stop bad drivers damaging it...

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It's not obviuos but the M48s have dozer blades on them as extra "armour".

[fsn]

On the same theme.

Interesting dozer blades.

[OldenBUA]

That sums up the Cold War really .

Yeah, never heard of Covid, and a tobacconist corner shop. Happy days?

[Westmarcher]

Interesting dozer blades.

I assume these are 'fixed' and not 'operable' like a conventional bulldozer?

[Ace of Spades]

It was to stop bad drivers damaging it...

Bad drivers in M48 tanks...? with dozer blades...? Hmmm....

Cheers,
Rob

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Car and lorry...   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Narrow streets - Tanks - 20 yr old drivers, dozers !!!

[Raider4]

Interesting dozer blades.

According to information I have*, the '52' tank was the Company XO, and was usually equipped with a dozer blade as standard.

* Actually about USMC tanks in Vietnam - I'm extrapolating that it might apply to US Army as well . . .

Looks like an M59 APC behind the tanks? Don't think I've ever seen a photo of one before.

[fred.]

When you paint the bottom of the dozer blade white, you probably aren't expecting to use it very much!

The US tanks are very heavily covered in stars - ID clearly a concern at this time. Rather different to the later Berlin Brigade camo.

[John Cook]

Bad drivers in M48 tanks...? with dozer blades...? Hmmm....

Cheers,
Rob

And badly trained conscripts, on both sides.

[fsn]

ESKIMO BACK AFTER GETTING A U-BOAT. 27 JUNE 1944, PLYMOUTH. OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE DESTROYER HMS ESKIMO, ON THEIR RETURN AFTER DISPOSING OF A GERMAN U-BOAT IN THE CHANNEL OFF USHANT.
The Commanding Officer of the ESKIMO, Lieut Cdr E S Sinclair, RN, of Harpenden, Herts, on the bridge with his First Lieutenant Lieut R G King, DSO, RN, of Orpington, Kent.
Creator: Tomlin, H W (Lt).


Those two look like they belong on a destroyer or a submarine. Are they trained to put their hands in their pockets like that?   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thumbs out means you can act quicker

[fsn]

DADDY'S HOME !!!!
This beautiful photo, taken in October 1945, in Tulse Hill, London, shows Gunner Hector Murdoch greeted by his beloved wife Rosina and his son John. Captured by Japanese forces, Hector spent more than three years in a POW camp in Singapore, where he almost died of Cholera.

[Steve J]

That's a great photo!