International Harvester automatic towed mine planter

[mklotz]

Tank mines are equipped with a detonator that purposely requires a lot more pressure to detonate; don't want troops setting off mines meant for higher value targets. Perhaps that's what this thing is set up to plant.

Regardless, there would never be enough money to pay me to drive that infernal machine.

[C-Bag]

Regardless, there would never be enough money to pay me to drive that infernal machine.

I hear that! But, the folks in the military didn't have a choice. Some of them did, and volunteered for some of the craziest sucidal stuff! The rabbit hole that I've gone down recently was glider pilots in WWII. They touched on this in Saving Private Ryan. But for some reason I never looked into it more until a short recount in another book I was reading. I thought transport C-47 pilots were sitting ducks! But landing in fields etc at night, no power in cloth and tubing......and then make your way back to friendly lines only to do it again! Wow! Check out the vid "Silent Wings". Walter Cronkite and Andy Rooney both went in gliders! And the pilots were all volunteers.