Armour-plated D6

[RichardJW~]

This is an old photo I found while going through some albums, it must be late 70s or very early 80s and was taken at Slapton, South Devon.

From memory a UXB was found on the beach -left over from D-Day landing practices in 1943/44 and the army boys came down to defuse it with this. They also had one of those big Scammell Crusader 6x4 + low-loader parked in the car-park.


URL of the original image: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1/RichardJayW1/CatD6_zpsd9529715.jpg

[modelman093]

Think that this one is a D7.
Taken at Russell Seywell's open day at Little Paxton a couple of years ago

[martyn williams]

Slapton was the site of major loss of life on the run up to D day.German boats came in and attacked the allied craft whilst training.I has been reported that 800 men were lost.
Martyn

[martyn williams]

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq20-2.htm

[hair bear]

Copied with thanks to HMVF forum

'One of, Caterpillar D6C, with armoured cab conversion. Think you'll find that at the time of the photo, this one belonged to 33 EOD Regiment Royal Engineers, who were based at Lodge Hill, Chattenden, Kent. As well as the amour, they also had one that could be used by remote control'