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Neil_Baumgardner
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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject: APG's former A7V
Just came across this pic... Must be from 1942 or earlier... www.flickr.com/photos/...073010968/ Neil

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: APG's former A7V
"philthydirtyanimal" has a lot of nice pics on Flickr

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: APG's former A7V
"in Maryland, USA. Broken up for scrap." Good call, these things are a dime a dozen.

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: APG's former A7V
According to my notes it was destroyed in 1942. Not to defend it, but at least it was during WWII and there's only one survivor today - so APG wasnt the only one to make this mistake... Neil

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject: Re: APG's former A7V
- Doug_Kibbey "in Maryland, USA. Broken up for scrap." Good call, these things are a dime a dozen. WAS IT??? Someone needs to be jailed!! It amazes me how some 'pencil-neck geek' can rise to a position of authority and then make some really stupid recommendations,.......Makes me sick. Don

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: APG's former A7V
Given it was 1942, I imagine that the thinking was more along the lines of: "We'll give it back to the Nazis alright, in pieces, out of the barrels of our guns and bombays of our planes!!" Things were pretty desperate back then, actually worse than what most people - even today - realized. KL

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:02 pm Post subject: Re: APG's former A7V
Kurt You have a point. I was thinking of the 50's thru 70's when such actions & decisions were made. Without the influence of such desperate times. Don

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