In iraq, force protection is now provided by army transportation units driving gun trucks5ton trucks modified with m60 machinegun mountswith a truck in the front, middle and rear of each convoy. Early m4a3105 sherman assault tank completed kitbash of. Teaching the vietnam war with primary sources from the new york times the jan. I model the gun trucks that were in my company, the 444 trans outside of qui nhon, vietnam in 196970. See more ideas about vietnam, vietnam war, vietnam war photos. Gun trucks of the vietnam war cherrieswriter vietnam. With the end of the vietnam war, the need for such vehicles disappeared and most were either scrapped or returned to cargo carrying. Pdf download vietnam gun trucks new vanguard, by gordon l. During the vietnam war, two truck drivers earned the medal of honor. Reviewing an ebook vietnam gun trucks new vanguard, by gordon l. Teaching the vietnam war with primary sources from the new.
To counter this, the men begin to modify their trucks, adding upgraded armor and serious firepower. A tribute to those vietnam veterans who manned the heavily armed and armored gun trucks during the war in vietnam. Gun trucks and convoy escorts the twilight war 1995. Hobbylinc carries 19 vietnam war model vehicle kits at discounts up to 46%. The most popular vietnam war model vehicle kits brands include tamiya, monogramrevell, academy plastics. Gun trucks on guard a time and a place in vietnam i had a web site in 1997 i thought it was time to share all the pictures that were sent to me. The story of a marine grunt in the first battle of khe sanh. Since september of 1967 my time had been served as squad leader and acting section chief with battery g, 65th artillery, a quad 50 unit. He and james lyleslater author of the gun truck book the hard ride and a vietnam gun trucker himself, came up with master parts for a m54 cab and made molds to cast their parts. Army transportation truck company learned that our tractors and trailers would be leaving fort bragg, north carolina, and going to vietnam for longhaul trucking duties. Rottman is type of simple task to do whenever you really want. Jerry wanted to make models of them, in 5th scale, but discovered that no one made a model of the m54 five ton.
From this the doctrine of driving straight through the ambush evolved with assistant drivers firing the machine gun if fittedxi. See more ideas about vietnam, vietnam war and vietnam war photos. So the gun trucks continued to serve until the last american truck company was inactivated in vietnam in 1972. Vietnam this proved disastrous as this played into the viet cong hands. On page 200 of the 2d volume of the convoy ambush studies is a section about an action that. As gun trucks became more common the tactic became the ordinary created for the twilight 2000 rpg by james langham us army gun truck armour. Vietnam gun trucks and subsequent convoy doctrine evolved with changing enemy tactics, leaving behind both an answer to the problem of convoy security and a legacy of heroism. Vietnam war gun trucks gathering pigeon forge 08 duration. This is a great story of vietnam gun trucks and the brave men that were part of army transportation. Quad 50s at hue by bob lauver i had been in vietnam for 15 months on the afternoon of january 30th, 1968. From m16 rifles to huey helicopters, the vietnam war launched weapons that went on to become legendary.
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