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Not tractor related I know. I found this very interesting. a good example of, if you want something done right do it your self. I don't have the ability to add a link. Look it up. Stan
 


I saw that "Eve of Destruction" truck at Fort Eustis in 1973. It was still as it had come from 'Nam, and was sitting outdoors.
 
We went to a little tractor show in the great State of Michigan on 2007. There were other than tractors there. One was a 5 ton recreation of a Vietnam gun truck. The old crew that served in nam bought and recreated the truck. As I remember it had a "minni" gun behind the cab, several M-60's and one .50 cal for arms. There are several recreations and they have reunions. I wish I could remember her name.
That show was the first I had heard of a gun truck. I served in Germany, missed Nam.
Search u tube for more videos. joe
here
 
Looks like all the guns and the gunners are exposed. They should have made some shields around those guns to pivot with the gun.
 
Were they successful and safe for the crews? The idea does not seem to have been duplicated again.
 
the modern gun trucks are direct descendants of the veit nam gun trucks, the military even had veit nam era gun truck crew members teach the modern gun truckers how to fight with the trucks when they first manufactured them, i dont remember the military numbers for them, but they are in all high value military convoys in hostile teritory
 
The Germans had similar trucks. Though not nearly as heavily armed as those in WWII. Probably not as heavy a truck as those either.
 
That was probably Logan Worth's truck "Uncle Meat", from Genessee, Mi.
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Good video, my neighbor, farm down the road, drove tankers in the highlands. I was not much more than a ol grunt with the 3/8th inf humping hills. He's got stories galore about what they did to there trucks, weapons, armor plate etc etc. Always talks about the real hill leaving An Khe in the highlands as one scary deal. He hauled fuel to the Marines on the DMZ who stored in bladders........ lot's of memories. Thanks Larry
 
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