Warbird Information Exchange

My friend here with the P-51D also has a Willy's Jeep, quad 50 half track and is restoring a 40mm Duster to better than new condition.

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Don't touch my junk!!

That Geocaching site was a good source.

The Army's National Training Center located at Fort Irwin, CA has hundreds of destroyed hulks on it's huge live fire ranges. Unfortunately...not much left but scrap iron.

John

Those are all M60's and some Russian made crap I believe. NTC didn't open up until well after the Sherman era I believe Hood has some but it's been a while so I could well be wrong.

Irwin wasn't really an armor post until the Korean war. They may have some hulks from then but they're prolly M48's.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

You're probably right about the hulks at NTC but I do remember seeing the remnants of a couple Sherman chassie's when I was there back in the late 80's and early 90's.

Your also correct about Ft. Hood having a few but I'm not sure of what type. Hard to identify the type of vehicle when you're shooting at it from 600+ meters.

John

Could have been those Korean era Sherms, or maybe just shipped there for target practice, eh? So your a Cowhouse Creek Vet, eh? Who were you with?

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Whenever I was detailed to range safety, I made it a habit to go look at what was in the fields, if safe to do so. There is a lot of unexploded ordnance on many ranges so I HIGHLY recommend not going there unless you have permission and know where it is safe. That said, in my travels, I found an M-2 tank (predecessor to M3 Stuart), M3 and M5 Stuarts, M8 Howitzer (M3 Stuart with short barrel) M3 Lees, Shermans, M18 Hellcats. Most were in very poor condition from being fired on for 40 or 50 years. But a few were definitely good for parts sources or restorable with TLC.

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I was with the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division from 1988-1991. This unit was designated as a task force with 3 companies of M1 Abrams tanks and 1 company of M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles. My MOS was 11M (Mechanized Infantryman) on the Bradley.

What about you?

John