“If you owned such a beast would you be the driver or the TC?”
I would want to be the driver but Mr K (not the one on this forum) would probably end up doing that because he’s nuts about WWII and in particular the tanks are a fascination for him. So I wouldn’t fight him over it. Give him a few drinks and watch him work.
Ok, Scarlett, you’ll be the commander.
—”Give him a few drinks and watch him work.”
Hopefully, in a very large flat and open area, impaired tank driving may not be the best of plans.
A friend driving an M88 Retriever, probably the largest of beasts in the Army at that time, TOTALLY CRUSHED an MP jeep
at Ft Hood Texas!!!
A known troublemaker and did not care.
Moving along in a convoy crested a hill to be greeted by an
MP flagman and a jeep blocking the road at the bottom of the hill. AND HE HAD PREVIOUSLY REPORTED BRAKE PROBLEMS IN WRITING.
They brought him up for a court-martial, not his first but he prevailed.