- Jens_O_MehnerHmm nice photos, thanks for showing them.
Just one note, that halftrack is not a tank destroyer, it has the MG pulpit up front (complete with covered M2) and a bunch of stowage in the back.
- Dennis_SmithThat e-bay link that Taranov provided for the half-tracks is like looking into a time capsule. I've spent hours looking at all those photos. They were taken by a G.I. stationed in Italy. Since they are being sold on German e-bay, can one presume that he was killed/captured and the film spent all these years as a war souvenir?
- Buq-BuqCome on, guys, look again . . . that "skirt" is not cut away — it can't be: it is integral to the outside track assembly. Look at the drawings . . . the bogey trucks and sprocket mounting is bolted directly to the armor. If you were to cut away that portion of the "skirt" the sprocket would cartwheel right off the spline connecting it to the inner sprocket, and you'd have a mobility-killed T-28. Why, the friction of the track on the loose sprocket would probably burn up the final drive, and probably start a fire.
OK, so maybe that skirt is cut away . . .
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