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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:45 pm Post subject: APG Follow my leader!

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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:02 am Post subject: Re: APG Follow my leader!
A few more from the same series: images.google.com/host...d2455.html images.google.com/host...d8cb8.html images.google.com/host...5b28e.html images.google.com/host...9d4f6.html _________________ 1/72 and 1/76 scale fanatic.

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One notices that all the vehicles in this series are presented with minimal profiles...that is to say, "all buttoned up". Is there any explanation as to the purpose of this exercise...such as vehicle recognition, target presentation, etc.? As two observers are in pith helmets, presumably the temperatures must have been on the high side (as they can be at APG in summer). Interesting also that they are wearing sidearms (which could just be wartime photo-op drama). Buttoned up in a hot Maryland summer would have been...disagreeable.

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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:01 am Post subject: Re: APG Follow my leader!
The date given by Life is July 1950, with the Korean War not even a month old. Maybe this was a factor? And an older thread on the subject: www.com-central.net/in...ic&p=86302 related: beutepanzer.ru/Beutepa...-34_2.html _________________ 1/72 and 1/76 scale fanatic.

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Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2014 3:09 am Post subject: Re: APG Follow my leader!
Life magazine article

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- Dennis_Smith Life magazine article Thanks! Tanks, Sugar Bear AND Joan Fontaine in a singe issue, what's not to like?!

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