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Dontos
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:49 am Post subject: One more for the AFV Register???
Neil Got this M47 on there? Caption: Standing guard: although a variety of military equipment was exposed to the ravages of the atom in Frenchman Lake, this M-47 tank is a relative newcomer to the area.This M-47 tank was used as a target for testing armor-piercing artillery rounds (depleted-uranium tipped) in Area 5. Don

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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: Re: One more for the AFV Register???
Hi Dontos! Hi Folks! Looks like this vehicle had a bulldozer blade mounted on it at one time. Look at the headlights. Where is this guard standing at? Sgt, Scouts Out! _________________ "You can never have too much reconnaissance." General G.S. Patton Jr.

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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject: Re: One more for the AFV Register???
Nellis AFB Bombing range / Nevada Test Site It might glow a little in the dark..... Don

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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: One more for the AFV Register???
Probably full of 30mm DU round dust, doesn't look like they hit it. A lot of 47's ended up that way out West. Joe D

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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:02 am
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Hi Folks!

- Joe_D

A lot of 47's ended up that way out West.

A few years back, a train load of M47s (about 100 of them) came thur El Paso/Ft. Bliss, Texas. I don't know for sure, but my guess was they were headed for White Sand Missile Range up in New Mexico for use as hard targets.

They looked like they had Italian national markings on them.
Sgt, Scouts Out!

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