Sun on steel plus a hot engine is deadly, so always in the shadows is essential if you want to keep your tank relatively cool - at least until midday. Turret is on 11.40hours, so that the driver can crawl from his place to the top of the turret. Note the open hatch.
Slow times those were. Doing nothing, listening to radio chatter, seeing the rest of the army do their part or, like here, just drop dead and have some sleep.
Shortly before going home, I got this pic of a bridge layer tank.
A "Marder", the almost 40 year old standard APC of the GA, soon to be replaced by the brand new "Puma".
"Keiler", our mine sweeper. A huge shoveling equipment based on a M-48(!) chassis. Reason: The M-48 chassis was one piece instead of serveral welded pieces like the Leopard 1 & 2 chassis, so it was less prone to take damage from the vibrations that occured while shoveling about and, of course less damage from mines.
More later.
