On a side note, here's a humorous story. Well, humorous to me. So I was at the WWII living history gig at the Eisenhower NPS site in Gettysburg a couple of weeks ago. I'm on my way back to my display from the mess area when I pass a group of visitors looking at a nice half track. Somebody in the group says something along the lines of "look at that, I wonder where they got the rubber tracks?" The "expert" of the visitor group said "Nah, they never had those during the war. They must be after market reproductions made out of rubber. They're wrong" The rest of the group stood in awe of his knowledge.
When your entire historical database of half tracks is based on Sd.krz 251's from Saving Private Ryan, it only makes sense that all half tracks from any time period, regardless of national origin would have steel tracks. So with that in mind, I say obviously these pictures referenced must be the original tracks and all of us with rubbers, have it wrong.
No, I didn't stop and bother an attempt to educate as I fear I would've sounded like a know-it-all listening in on their conversation. Plus at that point, there's no way I could refute the expert opinion. Shame on me.
Chortling,
Chris
