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Old 03-15-11, 12:15 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by Freiwillige View Post
Indeed and another example is the M-10 and M-18 hellcat of the us Army, they were tank destroyers but had turrets.
But because the US Army liked to keep its TD crews cold, wet, miserable, and unprotected, for some absurd reason, they never finished the turret roof, which made these vehicles' crews especially vulnerable to tree-burst artillery and even small arms fire.
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