When you're in third person view, does your zoom reset to farther away? For example, with the zoom mod installed (pmod), I load into the game and the camera is like way behind my tank. I then zoom it in right close to the back of the tank. When the next map loads however, the camera is way back behind my tank again.
If i uninstall the zoom mod, my tank always remembers the camera last position. Again, this is not in sniper mode, which does remember the zoom level, but third person view.
EDIT-
I found a solution. I can edit the "onstartdeaddistance.json" file in the C:\Games\World_of_Tanks\res_mods\0.9.13\scripts\client\gui\mods\mod_pmod folder.