80 Abrams clobbered

[herroberst]

Would point out that the picture you portray I believe is of the one tank that US forces destroyed themselves on the thunder run into Baghdad after it caught fire and they could not extinquish it or leave the tank... I thought at the time that they should have used dirt and sand to put out the flames, i.e. empty a bunch of sand bags into the engine compartment and that probably would have worked but the newsreel revealed soldiers trying to put the fire out with water bottles.