Interesting pictures

[shaun]

The carrier in the last photo is a welded hull by the looks of it.

[motto (RIP)]

Some of those carriers give a definitive meaning to the word 'cannibalised'. They haven't simply been picked clean, they've been seriously gnawed at.

David

[tankbarrell]

First Sherman is a DD and the photo looks staged as there is nothing to remove from the bogie where he is cutting!

More DDs and M4A2s with the rear plates cut out in the second pic. The rads are still in, seems quite involved for simple salvage.

Solitary Churchill VII in the third pic.

[maple_leaf_eh]

I knew a wartime RCEME NCO and later officer, who ran a similar salvage operation. He was a decent guy, and he shared with me that he sometimes refused to let his men enter the burnt tanks. Too many reminders of the cost of warfare when men were trapped. He did mention that finding boot soles burnt to the pedals was a memory that bothered him 50yrs after the fact.

But, give the Allied war machine credit for having modular construction methods, that allowed them to interchange parts so easily.

I wonder how many of those cut up tanks became gun embrasure armour plates on defrocked Priests?

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

I wonder how many of those cut up tanks became gun embrasure armour plates on defrocked Priests?

That's what sprung to my mind, too....

Here's a similar picture I posted in the thread Kangaroo AWD site near Bayeux, France. It shows that a Priest Kangaroo, using reused armour, was reused itself after being put out of action.

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Until what time was this salvage area in operation? I photographed a photo on display at the Bayeux museum which clearly shows a salvage area, although this must have been taken after the Priest Kangaroos were used in action as this area stocks at least one "SHE.M7"!