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MarkHolloway · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:16 am Post subject: M113's in VietNam

Good set of photos of M113 series vehicles in Viet Nam. M132 flame throwers and one with an M113 mounted minigun!

www.flickr.com/photos/zippo132/

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 am Post subject: Re: M113's in VietNam

Mark,
Saw your comment on this page. Not only does it have a mini-gun, it has a pintle-mounted .50 for the driver! Never seen such a set-up before.

I see all kinds of potential problems with that in the bush, though. I'm guessing this one was kept pretty close to the firebase or NDP's and motored about mid-pack on well broken trails.

www.flickr.com/photos/...456488172/

MarkHolloway · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:26 am Post subject: Re: M113's in VietNam

I missed that (50 Cal), Doug. Too busy looking at the minigun. There was an 11th Cav M132 flame thrower. D Troop I think. Do you remember having those?

west-front · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 4:57 am Post subject: Re: M113's in VietNam

Great images, thank you for sharing them

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:13 am Post subject: Re: M113's in VietNam

- MarkHolloway

I missed that, Doug. Too busy looking at the minigun. There was an 11th Cav M132 flame thrower. D Troop I think. Do you remember having those?

Mark,
We did not have any "zippos" in my troop, nor to the best of my knowledge, in the Sqdn. when I was with them. We did have a few of those things mounting the 40mm grenade autoloader. Sheridan's probably made zippo's redundant.
D.

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