Any tank nuts here? WW1, WW2 Korea, Vietnam?

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[AR67GTX]

I haven't read all 227+ pages here. I have had a typical fascination with mainly WW2 tanks for over 5 decades, spent 5 days at Normandy, visited a doz? War museums around the world, and read a lot online.
But I discovered something today I have yet to see discussed online ever, that puzzled me, and I found that I thought was interesting, resolving and worth sharing explanation:

Bore evacuator - Wikipedia

I believe that made an appearance on US tanks in the Pershing M26 with its 90 mm gun in late WWII. I may be mistaken.

 

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flammpanzer 38(t)

 

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So, was that front rubber tired axled steerable and or driven, or where they just effectively casters that followed the half-track inputs?

 

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German WWII half-tracks, turning the steering wheel would initially turn the front wheels, and after a certain point, it would engage a track-steering system like on a tank

 

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Yesterday in Antwerp.
Shipped over from Normandy for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Antwerp.

 

[AR67GTX]

Germany sure built a wide array of tracked vehicles during the war. I know some of them shared a common chassis but it’s like they couldn’t stop trying out new configurations for tanks, tank destroyers, assault guns, troop carriers, etc ,rather than standardize on a few.

 

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I suspect in the Desert in Combat, gasoline is as equally important as water, but an enemy round piercing a water tank would not turn one into riding on a 4 wheeled Molotov cocktail.
My turban is off to those soldiers.