Engineers Said His "Bathtub" Armor Was Useless — Until His Halftrack Tanked 47 Panzerfaust Hits скачать в хорошем качестве

Engineers Said His "Bathtub" Armor Was Useless — Until His Halftrack Tanked 47 Panzerfaust Hits

In March 1945, during the final push into Nazi Germany, Staff Sergeant Michael Dorn—a Pittsburgh steel worker turned halftrack driver—faced an impossible problem. German Panzerfaust anti-tank weapons were slaughtering American halftrack crews, with a 73% fatality rate on impact. When Army engineers refused to help, Dorn took matters into his own hands. Working five nights in secret, he welded 47 pieces of scrap metal to his M3A1 halftrack: boiler plates, tank track sections, railroad rails, and even a cast iron bathtub from a bombed apartment building. What happened next shocked everyone. During the brutal Battle of Aschaffenburg, Dorn's "Bathtub Special" took hit after hit from German anti-tank weapons—and kept rolling. By the time the fighting ended, his halftrack had survived an incredible 47 Panzerfaust impacts with zero crew fatalities. His improvised armor design, which violated every principle of military engineering, ended up saving countless lives when the Army adopted his methods across the entire 3rd Armored Division, reducing halftrack casualties by 74%. This is the untold World War II story of how one man's welding expertise and desperate innovation created battlefield armor that engineers said was impossible. From the frozen hell of the Battle of the Bulge to the streets of Aschaffenburg, discover the incredible true story of the vehicle that would not die. Like and subscribe for more forgotten WWII heroes and untold military history stories.