Often when men are burned to death, they are in the process of trying to escape. At the point where death happens, they are frozen in time. Dead men standing up in tanks was unusual. Though sadly the number of times we found men hanging over the side. Draped downwards from the turret was quite common, specially in the Reconnaissance regiments.

One other poignant moment was in the cauldron of the Falaise pocket where the enemy used anything to get away. We passed a little car with its front door open. The driver had his hand on the car door handle, and one leg out. The blackened but still recognisable figure of a man......Frozen in time. For ever.
Sapper