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KaiserM109 · 01-25-2009, 13:42

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Originally Posted by poppop

... and removed one of its machine guns from a bird parked on the field. This gun was then mounted on the Good Bad Ugly.

I can't tell you anything about the Good Bad Ugly, but I can tell you a similar story. I served with 15th Combat Engr. Bn, 9th Infantry Division in 1968. We (9th ID) were the first (and only) unit to hold ground south of Saigon and the 15th was in the vanguard to Dong Tam.

Being combat engineers, we had to supply our own security and we had 4 M113 APCs that had napalm cannons identical to the ones the Navy had on river boats, instead of M2 50s. It could shoot a stream of napalm the size of my thumb 300 meters for 30 seconds. Our tracks were often called in to assist other ground units. In July one was called in to secure the crash site of a Cobra gunship and destroy it. They salvaged the minigun and 40mm grenade launcher from the nose turret. They kept the launcher and mounted it on the back of an M151 with a hand crank in place of the servo motor.