World War II
Most armies involved in the conflict adopted some form of improvised armour at some point. The Home Guard in the United Kingdom equipped itself with a number of vehicles with improvised armour. Later in 1944 some Churchill tanks had sections of track attached to their existing armour to provide extra protection. M8 Greyhound crews would sometimes line the floors of their vehicles with sandbags to provide extra protection against landmines. U.S. tanks sometimes had spare strips of track welded to the hulls. This was done with the Sherman, Grant, and Stuart tanks.
During the North African Campaign the German Afrika Korps attached strips of spare track to the front of their Panzer IIIs
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