Gun truck pics - Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite

M1075 · 03-17-2005, 00:19

My Dad was going through his Army photos in the attic and found these pics he took. Hope you enjoy. His notes below:

Pleiku Viet Nam 24 Dec 1968 , 541st Trans Co

Gun jeep (M151) equipped with the following;

AN-VRC 47 radio
2 M-60 machine guns
3 M-16 rifles
1 M-79 grenade launcher

Gun truck equipped with the following

2 M-60 machine guns
1 50 caliber machine gun
1 M-79 granade launcher
4 M-16 rifles
1 AN/VRC radio

PS. He says he liked the "Quad 50s" the best.

EDIT: I found this old thread and the pics were gone from the old server crash. I have uploaded them again for viewing.

Westech · 03-17-2005, 09:28

AHHHHHHH gun trucks were m35's also!!!!! I knew it

Monster Man · 03-17-2005, 13:10

that's awesome! thanks so much for sharing. Wetsech, if you take a look in the Member's Rides section under cool deuce pics http://www.steelsoldiers.com/DotNetF...m=5616&p=3 I posted a few deuce gun trucks in there. But these two are ones I hadn't ever seen before. I really hope you'll head over to:

http://groups.msn.com/VietnamGunTrucks/

there is a sort of registry, I'm sure they would love to know the locations, names, companies, etc. of these trucks and their drivers.

Great work!
OMG- edit- now this is wild- I was just over there, and low and behold, what do I see?

Deuce-bigalo · 03-17-2005, 18:37

Wow - those are great!!! The only thing is I wonder how many tires they went through. You'd think they would also put a sheet of steel over tha exposed rubber in the rear!!! Anywho, thanks for sharing those cool photos!

John

Monster Man · 03-17-2005, 18:41

Wow - those are great!!! The only thing is I wonder how many tires they went through. You'd think they would also put a sheet of steel over tha exposed rubber in the rear!!! [/quote]
ahhh, the beauty of duals. As said, these things were WAY overloaded (even the 5 tons) with all that steel, and with duals you can just keep going and going

M1075 · 06-13-2008, 12:52

A more recent pic of Quad 50 in a duece. Oh my, would I love to have one of these!

gimpyrobb · 06-13-2008, 13:18

Nice! I can finally look at porn while at work!

vtdeucedriver · 06-13-2008, 13:41

M1075, what unit was your dad with in Vietnam???? It ok to foreward these pics to a couple of guys? One of them may be a crewmember on "Kings" I have met 3 guys that have crewed that truck. Its a good pic of her.

Westy.........you should have asked me, I would have told you. Tho not as common as 5 tons, there were quite a few. Most of the "well known" ones were with the 541st Trans Co. as they were a deuce outfit.

Only a couple with quad mounts were with a Transportation unit. Tho the quad 50 was nice, it still did not offer the crew much protection during a ambush. I can only imagine the crew of a Ontos trying to load its recoiless would be much of the same.
Anyways, when you see a quad in the back of a truck, chances are its attached to a Firebase. The dolly system sucked during the monsoon season so they would mount the quads in the back of deuces and 5 tons and move the truck where they needed the quad along the perimiter of the FB.

That last pic of those quads look typical to what they would have on a firebase,

M1075 · 06-13-2008, 14:22

Send the pics on.

I think my Dad served in the following roles during 68 & 69

61st company (platoon leader)
563rd trucking company (company commander)
541st transportation officer (s2, s3)

vtdeucedriver · 06-13-2008, 14:33

Sent you a IM.