受不了。
二战时期的美军谢尔曼坦克,你在里面就像生活在冰箱里一样。而且它们没有暖气,也没有空调。不知道当时的设计师是怎么想的,那时候的汽车都有空调和暖气。
坦克里面可能比外面更冷。里面的士兵唯一好处就是不被外面的寒风吹到。
在沙漠中。白天,谢尔曼坦克晒太阳,就像烤火炉一样,温度可以达到54.4摄氏度,想象一下,当你从外面进入坦克的时候,你的手都会被坦克的铁皮烫伤,这就是为什么坦克兵需要戴手套的原因。都可以在坦克甲板上煎鸡蛋了。
晚上,沙漠的气温变得非常寒冷。此时的坦克又像一个冰箱,根本不是人待的地方。
以下节选自二战中一名谢尔曼坦克乘员所写的故事:
“I was in a Sherman then, which had no heater and—worse—any engine heat was drawn out of the tank by a fan unit on the engine. We often sat in the tank for hours in roadblock positions ready to ambush passing German vehicles—freezing our butts off the whole time. Our tank had one small Coleman stove to heat a cup of water or a can of food. It was of no use to keep warm. So you would put on all the clothes you had and wrap a blanket around you.
On most nights I would climb into my sleeping bag inside the tank, shoes and all, to escape the cold, even if that meant I wouldn’t be getting out if we got hit. The bags we had were a canvas outer with a blanket interior. Frost would form inside the tank from our breathing. It was like living in a steel ice box. Frostbite was common as a result because for the most part you were stationary. The cold was as much an enemy as the Germans.” |