[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the instruction and link. Poor driver surrounded by the mud. I wonder though in the heat of battle you would have the escape hatch in place and may have to use it.

In your experience as a tanker was escaping something drilled into you, practiced regularly?

[Cannoneer No. 4]

We never had escape drills. I had my hatch, the loader had his, the gunner could go out either one of those, and the driver had his hatch plus the escape hatch. The rest of the crew couldn't get to the escape hatch unless the gun tube was oriented to the rear.

Back in those days they drilled into us if you can be seen, you can be hit; if you can be hit, you can be destroyed.

I pretty much expected to be cut in half by the cupola if my tank ever took a hit on the turret. Lucky for me Turrentine Range was the most dangerous place I ever took that tank.