Inside Munster's Ausf. G

Picture 6 Now we're standing in the fighting compartment looking through the access door at the front of the engine, a Maybach HL 120 TRM. A V12 with 11,867 cc of displacement, this motor delivered up to 300 HP. The two large hoses coming out of the top bring the coolant from the engine back to the radiator (there are two more toward the rear of the engine). One of the fans that draws air in through the radiator can be seen in the distance to the upper left of the photo.

Picture 7 This is another view of the engine through the access hatch. This time you're looking down and to your left (the tank's right). I'm guessing that the feature central to this photo is one of the engine mounts and the spout, in the picture's upper left, is for measuring and adding oil.

Picture 8 Now we've panned over to the right. The wall in the back is the rear of the hull and the wall to our right is the tank's left side. We see the radiator at the top of the photo. The large hose runs from the front and rear of the radiator's bottom, joins, and then runs to the engine, thus bringing coolant back in to the engine. The large bracket running along the floor was used to mount the auxiliary engine, which has been removed sometime after the tank's inspection by the School of Tank Technology in August, 1943.

Picture 9 Here we see where the large hose brings coolant into the engine. The rear wall of the engine compartment can be seen in the background with the mount for the auxiliary motor on the floor to our right.

Picture 10 We're now looking just a little further to our left to see more of the lower right side of the engine.

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