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Old 06-06-2016, 07:01 PM   #9
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In the winters in WWII tank crews started the engines at intervals all night so they would not only not freeze, but start quickly if needed....
Many WW2 tanks had air-cooled radial engines nearly identical to aircraft engines. No freezing worries, but you'd sure like to be able to start them quickly. This was true of some Sherman tanks (Wright R-675), but other Shermans had Ford V8s or any of a considerable variety of other engines, some (such as the Chrysler multibank) really bizarre.

Shermans weren't the only tanks with radial engines, either.
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