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December 23rd, 2009, 06:50 PM
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#1 | | Squad Leader
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December 24th, 2009, 02:31 PM
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#2 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Tampa
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Were these taken by the Michelin Plantation?
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December 24th, 2009, 09:32 PM
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#3 | | Squad Leader
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Canton, MI
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Originally Posted by TampaSsgt  Were these taken by the Michelin Plantation? | No, at Lai Khe. Southeast of the Michelin Plantation.
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February 5th, 2010, 08:29 PM
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#4 | | Snappin In
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Livermore, CA
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Michelin had much more open rows...better fields of fire.
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February 10th, 2010, 03:07 AM
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#5 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: sw SD
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As usual with the M113's in VN troopers riding on top of the vehicle.Gasoline M113 in particular,Aluminum and mines (IED's)didnt mix.Heard credible storys of molten piles of M113s that had mixed it up w-RPGs/mines.Didnt Carlos Hatchcock win a Silver Star/Purple heart or other Award/Purple Heart for rescuing troopers from an ablaze M113?
curious as to how the upgraded M113 A2-3's etc have performed in Iraq/Afghanistan.Anyone?
Last edited by grndpndr; February 10th, 2010 at 05:51 AM.
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December 27th, 2010, 02:05 PM
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#6 | | Scout Sniper
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Iowa
Posts: 743
|  Need to know
Type of Army tank and what the heck is that out front of that tank anyway ?
Photo was taken at Chu Lai airbase in 1970 , the only tank I ever did see near the air terminal , just had to photo it ! 
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December 27th, 2010, 03:13 PM
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#7 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: UPSTATE N.Y.
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THE GUNNY was badly burned while saving 7 marines while
on a USMC AMTRAC LVTP5 AS THE AMTRAC WAS ON FIRE
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December 27th, 2010, 03:23 PM
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#8 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Tampa
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Originally Posted by carpshooter Type of Army tank and what the heck is that out front of that tank anyway ?
Photo was taken at Chu Lai airbase in 1970 , the only tank I ever did see near the air terminal , just had to photo it ! | The tank would be an M-48 because I don't think they had M-60's in country.
The device in front of it looks like some type of mine or bunker clearing device that has been "Yankee Engineered" from something else .. 
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December 27th, 2010, 04:21 PM
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#9 | | Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Northern Ca
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If memory serves the M60 saw very limited service in Vietnam primarily due to its weight (some 58 tons). The only time I saw them was on QL1 at Dong Ba Thin for a short time at the checkpoint on the north side of the base. I have read they were delegated to highway and air base security.
The boxy thing on the front should be the lighting system. They had both IR and Xenon systems on the turret.
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December 27th, 2010, 04:56 PM
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#10 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Tampa
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Originally Posted by RET DEP 04 If memory serves the M60 saw very limited service in Vietnam primarily due to its weight (some 58 tons). The only time I saw them was on QL1 at Dong Ba Thin for a short time at the checkpoint on the north side of the base. I have read they were delegated to highway and air base security.
The boxy thing on the front should be the lighting system. They had both IR and Xenon systems on the turret. | You're right that is the light.
I thought he meant the object that was fixed down low to the front of the tank ... oops, my bad.
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December 27th, 2010, 08:48 PM
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#11 | | Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Northern Ca
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The two arms coming off the front of the treads on each side, I believe, are a mine clearing/marking system built by Pearson Engineering. I know they were supposed to be used in Operation Desert Storm but I don't know when they were developed.
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December 27th, 2010, 10:19 PM
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#12 | | Scout Sniper
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Iowa
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| A little known fact !
I do mean that stuff on the lower part of the front of the tank !
I don't know what that is , and that crew didn't hang around very long !
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December 27th, 2010, 10:55 PM
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#13 | | Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Northern Ca
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The engineers had a few specially equipped with a dozer blade in the front. There were stories of a flail system with a rotating drum spinning cables for mine clearing but I don't know if they were ever used on the M60.
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December 28th, 2010, 12:52 AM
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#14 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Tampa
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I did some online research and found what I think was on the front of that M-48 tank.
I think it was the "arms" for the ENSURE 202 Tank Mounted Mine Clearing Roller without the "rollers".
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January 18th, 2011, 05:10 PM
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#15 | | Scout Sniper
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Iowa
Posts: 743
| Inquiry mind wants to know !
What kind of armor vehicle is this , I think it owner was the ARVINs if I remember right as it was taken in Danang , RVN back in 1970 .
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