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When we pulled into a laeger or "DP" we would not use the can on our veh unless it had already been emptied earlier. It stayed, full, on the vehicle and we gassed up using what the echelon or the service battalion delivered.
To back up Rob Love's points we, the users and abusers of the mechanised artillery, (Rob will get the reference being a RCEME type ![]() ![]() On rail moves everything went inside, even the sopping wet cam nets, to prevent pilfering at every little whistle stop along the way. We even had to gun tape the periscope glass as vandals would chip away at them with sharp rocks! Congrats on finding a possible historical link between a wartime photo and and an actual artefact. ![]() Cheers, Mike
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