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Sure it looks like fun....
Not at 30,000 feet.
Not 60 below zero.
Not being shot back at by the sons of the Axis.

In any case, I'd love to give it a go especially if you were male to try to track targets.

Todd.
 
Sure it looks like fun....
Not at 30,000 feet.
Not 60 below zero.
Not being shot back at by the sons of the Axis.

In any case, I'd love to give it a go especially if you were male to try to track targets.

Todd.
You left out slipstream roaring in the ejection ports at 350kts depending on which way you have the thing turned.
 
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My Dad was in the Armored Infantry (12th Armored Division), doing WWII and they had a water cooled M1917-M1919 on their half track. A Quad 50 would have been the Cat's Meow!
 
A half track would be the icing on the cake!!!
Downside being the 35mph top speed on paved roads.

The M-16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage is also a bit drafty when cold, and not nearly enough when hot out. Doubly so for the two loaders who wer wedged into the back with all the tombstone 500 round mags.

The straight six under the hood is very reliable, though. The Military vehicle collectors' only real gripe is finding replacement track (they are a continuous rubber with a couple of endless steel cables moulded inside--last batch to come in was from Israel).

There was a version, the M-15 MGMC which only had a dual M2 mount, and is excedding rare. There were a bunch of "T" series test vehicles that used Bendix and Sperry turrets mounted in the back, complete with perspex, but they did not offer anything that the built-to-purpose turret didn't do better.

There was an M-14 which went the the SW Pacific. It used a "flat bed" version of the M3 half-track with a sort of "bathtub" turret, which mounted a 37mm AA cannon with a pair of coaxial water-cooled M2. A few of those were modified, in theater, after battle damage, to mount a single 40mm Bofors salvaged from either Army stores or Navy ships.
 
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My Dad was in the Armored Infantry (12th Armored Division), doing WWII and they had a water cooled M1917-M1919 on their half track. A Quad 50 would have been the Cat's Meow!

I thank him for his service. Armored Infantry is what are called today Heavy Lifters.. No offense to anyone, but if they don't know what Heavy Lifters means; I can't help them. Simply said, they grind the enemy down.

In Toccoa, GA, they have a military reenactment weekend. Before the jumps into Europe; the 101st trained here. Some of the original Band of Brothers where here. I shook one's hand and thanked him for his Service. He looked at my hat with its Vietnam Vet with a CIB and Jump Wings and thanked me for mine. I said Sir without your Service, mine would have never happened..

My Dad was a P-51 pilot in WWII. I wanted to fly fighters; however, the only honest recruiter ever measured me and said I was too tall. As, a result, I was glorified light Infantry in Vietnam.


Downside being the 35mph top speed on paved roads.

The M-16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage is also a bit drafty when cold, and not nearly enough when hot out. Doubly so for the two loaders who wer wedged into the back with all the tombstone 500 round mags.

The straight six under the hood is very reliable, though. The Military vehicle collectors' only real gripe is finding replacement track (they are a continuous rubber with a couple of endless steel cables moulded inside--last batch to come in was from Israel).

There was a version, the M-15 MGMC which only had a dual M2 mount, and is excedding rare. There were a bunch of "T" series test vehicles that used Bendix and Sperry turrets mounted in the back, complete with perspex, but they did not offer anything that the built-to-purpose turret didn't do better.

There was an M-14 which went the the SW Pacific. It used a "flat bed" version of the M3 half-track with a sort of "bathtub" turret, which mounted a 37mm AA cannon with a pair of coaxial water-cooled M2. A few of those were modified, in theater, after battle damage, to mount a single 40mm Bofors salvaged from either Army stores or Navy ships.

Whoa there Captain, you really know your "stuff."
I was 11B4P or Infantry, Airborne and light weapons specialist and you're way over my pay grade. ;) In today's MOS terms I was an 18 Bravo.

I saw Quad 50s on deuce and a half trucks work.. Trees fall down.. Ma Deuce is a mean machine..

At FSB Burt, I saw the Duster with its twin 40 mikes crank.. That was another one serious wicked machine..

 
Whoa there Captain, you really know your "stuff."
Hung out with a bunch of military vehicle collectors/restorers.
So, I've ridden in an M16 MGMC. Never had any trigger time, but did hump ammo boxes to keep the beasts fed.
Mind, I used to own a "burma jeep" the 1.5 ton 4x4 low profile truck built for the Navy Department in the 40s, so I could help haul stuff.
 
That's pretty cool. The thought that half the guys that climbed into one of those for a paycheck never lived to collect gave me pause... I've met a few veterans who flew in the Eighth Air Force... A lot of praise for the P-51. Not much talk about anything else.

A sense of reverence might keep me from trying to enter one.
 
A half track would be the icing on the cake!!!
I've seen quad 50s mounted on the M35 deuce and a half escorting convoys..

Those were called "Gun Trucks." They were an in-theater, field expedient modification. There is a documentary about them out there somewhere. I was a 63W truck mechanic on M35s at the end of their service life, not long before they were phased out.
 
Hung out with a bunch of military vehicle collectors/restorers.
So, I've ridden in an M16 MGMC. Never had any trigger time, but did hump ammo boxes to keep the beasts fed.
Mind, I used to own a "burma jeep" the 1.5 ton 4x4 low profile truck built for the Navy Department in the 40s, so I could help haul stuff.

You know the actual nomenclature and the nickname. Kudos!!

IME, the collectors, restorers and reenactors often know more about the vehicles and weaponry than the end users.
We humped 5.56 mags in Claymore bags. ;)

Those were called "Gun Trucks." They were an in-theater, field expedient modification. There is a documentary about them out there somewhere. I was a 63W truck mechanic on M35s at the end of their service life, not long before they were phased out.

I saw a picture online of a quad 50s; on the armor it said "Look at the Flash." :rofl: They'd elevate the 50s and fire H&I strikes or Harassment and Interdiction fire.


Adding armor plate to protect the 113's 50 gunner was in theater field expedient also.

The 113 with a flame thrower were called "flame tracks." They also mounted a flame thrower on a tank; its nickname was "Zippo." :D I believe either were in-country modification too.

 
Sure it looks like fun....
Not at 30,000 feet.
Not 60 below zero.
Not being shot back at by the sons of the Axis.

In any case, I'd love to give it a go especially if you were male to try to track targets.

Todd.
With all that added in, I am out. I don't like heights. I can force myself to deal with it. But I don't want to.
 
That would be fun but I'm not sure that I could maneuver to get into it. But like mokin, I would have to pause for a minute to pay tribute to the guys that served in them.
 
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