Building this kit and there is something on the front end that has me perplexed. What are these two things with the cylindrical openings? In looking at images online one came up that had them with covers on. Also I’m taking a wild guess in assuming that training on these was at Ft. Leonard Woods where I took basic as I know they did a lot of engineer training.
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That’s Classified, Top Secret, we’ll have to delete this post…
Smoke grenade launchers, on pretty much every US armored vehicle 
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Answer is simple. Smoke grenade dischargers. When not in use, these are covered. You should check the angle of yours against pictures of the real thing. At least the right one would fire against the launching mechanism. The left one is critical too. I am afraid you put them on the wrong way. Turn them 180 degrees like on the M1 picture. That might help.
Andreas
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Turning them 180° would either have them shooting to the rear (against the hull and/or bridge) or be installed upside-down, depending on along which axis you mean. They’re in roughly the right direction, but need to be aimed a little better, to face out and up a bit.
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Smoke crossed my mind but it seemed silly for this vehicle. Thanks, I’ll check the mounts
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Something is off. I believe they are on upside down. The large horizontal “foot” goes up when mounted on the hull. Or the foot is on backwards, not sure. If it is the foot backwards, swapping sides with the launchers would put them in the right place.
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No the foot and mount is right. The smokes are upside down. I gotta swap em to the other sides. Dang.
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Oh! Now I see what the first photo actually shows: it’s from underneath, instead of (as it looked like to me) the launching arm from above, but with parts missing. Yes, they are on upside-down after all 
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When you’ve got no guns on your tank, smoke is a wonderful thing to have as you beat a hasty exit!
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The flat side must be on top and not at the bottom! He pictured the model upside down.
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I worked that out too, when I realised which way up the parts were. Like I said above, I got the impression the arm that raises the bridge was the right way up in the photos, rather than upside-down
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Yes it was posed upside down when I took the pic. I corrected the issue.
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