speaking of gt in nam, we had a m51 with built up sides , rear encloser and a armored headack rack, on the headack rack was mounted a mini gun with the gen. in the bed, that thing could putout some awesom fire
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What is the purpose of that weird notch on the lower left side of the armored gun shield? I recently owned a couple Vietnam-era gun shields from M113 ACAVs, and they were complete, without that weird notch...
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The latest (couple of days old) Classic Military Vehicles magazine (published in the UK) has part one of a two-part series I did on the gun trucks in Vietnam. Predominately illustrated in color. Not enough space in a magazine to do this subject justice. Take a look at Jim Lyle's two "Hard Ride" books. Jim crewed on several of these, and the photo coverage is great.
My Buddy Sgt. Fred Caughlin, was actually one of the small group of guys to put together the first gun trucks in Iraq, He has had a couple of storys done on him by the Army and guard, one truck had reactive armor from a T72,He said it was a bitch finding someone who could weld it, to the bed, the 50's on the first 2 trucks were mounted on cut up Hemmit tow bars, just long posts in the back, i will get pics from him when i can, David U may be interested in talking to him, its a great thing they did, at first all they heard was" what do U think Your in Vietnam?" it took alot of old style bartering to get the welding and steel, and stuff to put the first 2 together, its a GREAT story, and one was the" Jersey devil," they did it and everyone thet saw em just like in the old days copied em fast. Randy
Another story of a good friend.. George was one of the original guys to put armor on M151's, he said they thought they were all sort of it, untill the first convoy out, they found all the shooting was concentrated at them! so it became harder for them to find guys to take the mutts out, plus they were such dogs they couldnt get out of there own way, Randy
It should be noted that the replica at the top of this thread, as mentioned, was built by Sammy Seay. Mr. Seay has some experience with the Ace of Spades, as he served as gunner on the Ace of Spades back in Vietnam in about 1971.
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