PHOTO #1 - Side upper armour, starboard (right) side beside driver. His
head would appear just above the upper "200" marking.
PHOTO #2 - Detail of this same piece of armour, this time from the front.
Note the same "200" marking as seen in Photo # 1. One can make out the
"-F-O-R-D-" name plate which would be behind the driver's head.
PHOTO #3 - Front view of armour in front of driver. His head would stick up
above the diamond with the DI in it.
PHOTO # 4 - This shows the front slope of the upper hull. The viewer is
looking towards the driver whose armour in photo # 3 would be mounted on top
of what we see here. One can see the two angle iron bars (designed to help
stop bullet splash I believe) and one of the two hooks to hold the "Rope,
steel, towing" which would be coiled on the port side front slope. One can
also see traces of the mounting for the spare bogie wheel on the starboard
sloped surface. The lifting plates are still in place with the stencilling
"SLING HERE" (in 2 lines)
PHOTO # 5 - In the upper background is the same front slope of the hull that
we saw in photo # 4, though now upside down. In the foreground is the rear
panel of the armour (also upside down. The storage bin rear exterior is for
flags, ground sheets, poles etc.
PHOTO # 6 - This shows the starboard (right) side of the vehicle, Photo #1's
armour goes on top of this.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CARRIER?
The armour is more or less neatly separated at the joins, i.e. front upper
section,
starboard side, rear panel, front upper sloped section. The survival of so
many
markings suggests that it did not burn - though it may have blown up and
separated at the weak points - the seams/joins in the armour.
Myext message will deal with deciphering of the markings.
Colin Macgregor Stevens
MVPA Member 954 (since 1977)
& member B Coy 1 Canadian Parachute Battalion (Living History)
Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada
E-mail: colin@pacdat.net
Personal web site: http://bcoy1cpb.pacdat.net
1944 Willys MB
1942 BSA airborne bicycles (2)
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