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Dontos · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:43 pm Post subject: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

Working on another video, but had to post this,.....

Hey Doug, weren't you around during this??

Don

Dontos · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

And another from the same time period...

Enjoy
Don

Dontos · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

Don

Dontos · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:16 pm Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

A question,....

Whats the 'pipe' extending up, from the front slope??

Don

bsmart · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:19 pm Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

I wonder if it is just a marker pole so the TC knows where the bow is

Dontos · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

Oh yeah! I didn't even think of that. Thanks Bob

Don

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

Interesting "stuff" guys.

bsmart · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

I think whenever you see a regular M60 deep wading the gun is elevated and probably breaks the surface to give a reference point. The short 152 probably wouldn't be long enough to provide a marker. But this is all just a guess Wink

MarkHolloway · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:16 am Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

- bsmart

I wonder if it is just a marker pole so the TC knows where the bow is

I'll bet it is. If the pole goes under water you need to back up!

Don, can I post these with credit at my flickr group? I love the one with the missile.

Joe_D · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:16 am Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

That has got to be a concept drawing,

I have a hard time believing that pole as tall as it is and unsupported would not break when entering/moving through the water.

Don't think I've ever seen an A2 with a Bilge pump either, wasn't standard Army equipment until the A3's came out.

Haven't seen the top picture before,

Thanks Don

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:04 am Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

- Dontos

Working on another video, but had to post this,.....

Hey Doug, weren't you around during this??

Don

Alas, no...I was off in Thua Thien and Quang Tri provinces after AIT and Sheridan School in early '71. That vehicle, however, bears the same registration number as the one of the Shillelagh Missile night launch pic I have from the Photo/Graphics Branch of the Armor Board.

Some of those pictured are M60A1E2 versions. The Initial Production Test project of the M60A2 that I was on ran from ~Sept. '73 - Spring '74. I ETS'd in mid-Dec. before the project was over.

I don't recognize any of those guys in first pic, but given timeframe, that's not unusual. I'd like to see a higher res shot, however, to try to read nametags.

Joe_D · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:39 am Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

That's the first picture I've seen of RN 09A93869.

Keeping tabs on all M60A1E1 and E2 RN's to solve a puzzle.

Got eight so far, need another eight or twelve, most likely twelve E2's. Have all the E1's AFAIK.

Every one that's posted I examine very closely. Keep 'em coming.

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:10 am Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

- Joe_D

That's the first picture I've seen of RN 09A93869.

Keeping tabs on all M60A1E1 and E2 RN's to solve a puzzle.

Got eight so far, need another eight or twelve, most likely twelve E2's. Have all the E1's AFAIK.

Every one that's posted I examine very closely. Keep 'em coming.

Joe,
You're right, the "night launch" shot is of 09A 939 69.
D.

Joe_D · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:37 am Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

Rats,

I was hoping you had some more pics stashed away somewhere with some "New" RN's I haven't seen Smile

Did you get the package?

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:43 am Post subject: Re: M60A1E2 Stuff (M60A2)

- Joe_D

Rats,

Did you get the package?

Was waiting for me when I got home tonight, very nice to come home to from Amsterdam. Some things never change, like ACAV's, M548's, and what you can find at "gravesites". Wink

I'll have some stuff to send your way soon.

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