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Recent content by wgtactical

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    Looking for Vietnam era pics of V100's with 504th

    I remember at the beginning of this project asking for at least a single photo of this machine while in Vietnam and here lately I seem to get regular updates. Unfortunately some of the pictures are from sons or daughters of the soldiers that had them. Here is an early (late '69 or early '70)...
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    V100 provenance

    When the Super V nose art first went on this vehicle it was in Quang Tri Vietnam 55 years ago, now it is back on the same vehicle it first appeared on, right here in Carrollton, GA
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    V100 provenance

    I was talking with Patrick today and he was telling me about the 504th C Company being the northernmost MP unit in Vietnam, located in Quang Tri. When you look at a map, I guess you can't really get much further north than that without crossing into the DMZ
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    V100 provenance

    Rory I have to admit that luck was probably the largest contributor to the success of this project. Had it not been for early photos showing the registration and vehicle number, there's really no way I could have been able to connect the dots. After having done so, it has helped connect the...
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    V100 provenance

    I know I have been tracing down the history of the V100 we are working on in our shop since '21. Although the restoration officially started in the mid '80s, we started with only a limited set of facts to go on and are only recently tracking down clearer details and accounts of it's military...
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    Journey complete, 52 years later...

    Here is a bit of a rare photo. Over the years I have seen very few armored vehicle interior shots while in war zones. This one features Elton Littlejohn who was on the relay team at USC in '67 with OJ Simpson. This is in fact the interior of Super V although there are no ways of proving it...or...
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    Journey complete, 52 years later...

    As far as Super V is concerned, ser# 10602, registration # 1304269, vehicle # C55 was built in '69 then sent to Vietnam served it's time there and was returned to the US in '72...really short service life when you consider what kind of sense it would make to scrap a 3 year old vehicle today...
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    Journey complete, 52 years later...

    Seemed the search for photos or finding other service members familiar with the V100 we are restoring (Super V) was becoming more and more elusive. Fortunately we kept up the pursuit and it's finally paying off. In these photos the third of the three V100's assigned to the 504th C Company called...
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    Journey complete, 52 years later...

    Been a while since we updated the Blood Sweat and Tears search. As it turns out, the reason nobody remembers "Blood Sweat and Tears" is because that was the second name given to the V100 and it happened after Don Tillman had gone home. A vet named Patrick Spinks sent a group of photos from his...
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    Looking for Vietnam era pics of V100's with 504th

    I think we may have finally cracked the case on the Blood Sweat and Tears V100. I have been in contact with a couple 504th C Company vets and they've been contacting old army buddies they've not talked to in nearly 55 years. As a result, nobody so far can place the BS&T V100 in their memories...
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    Looking for Vietnam era pics of V100's with 504th

    We found a picture of Don Tillman (red shirt) from around the time he lost his engraved Zippo. That lighter would remain lost for 52 years.
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    Looking for Vietnam era pics of V100's with 504th

    No I haven't, are these images available online or only in books?
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    Looking for Vietnam era pics of V100's with 504th

    Patrick Spinks (aka "Spunky") in the turret and Charles Hannigan in the driver's seat. 504th C aboard "The Texan" This was one of the V100s in the C company and I am told there were three V100s in their company, each had nose art. I have spoke with two veterans of the 504th C company and they...
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    Vietnam Era V-100 Photos

    If you ever come across one with 1304269 registration number, please advise!
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    Looking for Vietnam era pics of V100's with 504th

    Clicking through the slides that were sent to me from USMC Major Harold Itchkawich's estate in California, I came across this photo taken sometime in the late '60s. In a earlier phone conversation with the gentleman that was a friend of Harold's, I'm told he was 5'-7" and a man that made things...
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