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Old 19-06-13, 17:35
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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?
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Old 19-06-13, 22:50
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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.

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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"!
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