M-10 tank destroyer
M-10 tank destroyer with a Cullen Hedgerow cutter.possibly Normandy
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/us-armor-vehicles/27721/m-10-tank-destroyer
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.ww2incolor.com/gallery/us-armor-vehicles/27721/m-10-tank-destroyer
its a "veteran" from Normandy (operation Cobra)to Germany where the pix was taken in February 45. Lot of sandbags and wooden pieces against Panzerfauste…
Wow, that’s a lot of ‘improvised’ armor add ons. Looks like it was Tigers and Panthers against the Junk Yard Dog.
A tank destroyer is one of the last vehicles I’d want to be rolling through hedgerows with. The open tops made crewmen target practice for German snipers in trees or berm walls. 
The inappropriate, unintended use for them as essentially infantry tanks shows the futility of the US Tank Destroyer Doctrine, and those that vainly held onto it as dogma like Gen. McNair at USAGFC…