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Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 05:09 AM UTC
Tanks (and other AFV) in trouble
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Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 06:26 AM UTC
As an Ordnance maintenance guy (in the 70's), similar little faux pax by the treadheads provided me with unlimited challenges to get them recovered ... I loved it !!!

John
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Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 06:37 AM UTC
Wow I sure hope to heck that the crews of those rollovers were okay.

Some really interesting pictures there.

Thanks for sharing.

Jeff

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Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 07:12 AM UTC
Really gets the diorama juices flowing.
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Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 07:19 AM UTC
Interesting photos, that could really bring out a lot of "really dumb Grumpy questions" about how they get into such bogged down situations. (I can understand some of the roll overs, due to collapsing ground/river banks, but some looked like they were purposely dug in like that.

Remember I was in the Navy... but did spend a week on an aircraft carrier sitting grounded on an unexpected sand bar. :-) :-)
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Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 04:05 PM UTC
Thanks for the link Al. You know some of those crewmen got bruised up.
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Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 - 05:13 PM UTC
Wow, great pics, good for diorama ideas
jRatz
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Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 06:33 AM UTC

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Interesting photos, that could really bring out a lot of "really dumb Grumpy questions" about how they get into such bogged down situations. (I can understand some of the roll overs, due to collapsing ground/river banks, but some looked like they were purposely dug in like that.

Remember I was in the Navy... but did spend a week on an aircraft carrier sitting grounded on an unexpected sand bar. :-) :-)


From experience, there can be ground that looks like good field that really sits over a bog -- light farm tractors, etc, can traverse, but not the big guys ... If s time & space permitted, I could tell you long (but TRUE) stories about a certain area in Germany and the 1st Inf antry Division on REFORGER 77 ....

John
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Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 12:01 PM UTC
Great pics !

And as a thought if we actually modelled any dios like this without "proof" pics we'd get laughed out of dodge ....................!

cheers
Brent
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