Now this makes for a bad day! Not to worry, only a broken collar bone among the crew.

The gunner had to manually rotate the hull for the crew to escape. I'm sure the flame at the butt end was a great inspiration.

Don

Forgot the picture.

ummm...that doesn't look good Chief.....

Appears to have failed parking. Glad the crew is ok, but I would love to hear the story on that one.

Hmmm looks like they might need to recall them all as it seems to be a design fault-

Thats one way of making track repairs a bit easier!

Please excuse my humour but she's the right way up
in Australia, "Downunder" ha ha!

Time to paint the lower hull

They need to look into putting an escape hatch!

maybe tracks on both sides?...</p>

Don, Here's a couple more....Easy 8 Sherman; we hit a dry screek bed wide open and tried to hard left out of it. Sgt Feagan was riding TC and rode the turret 'til everything stopped, then climbed out the bottom of the turret. CO wasn't overly happy about it and the two of us had to take the VTR and set it up. Hardest thing was putting the turret back in the ring.

The M-48A2 was a brand spankin' new tank with no more than a dozen miles on the odometer. Backed up into a WW II giant bomb crater and flipped twice on the eay down. I lost a very good buddy and the driver got out thru the escape hatch but had severe psychological problems after this. The M-1 crew was very fortunate.

Lets try it with photos. [&:]

Ouch!!!!!