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09/21/2020 at 19:01 • Filed to: Vietnam war, Land Rover
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"415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)" (415s30)
09/21/2020 at 19:01 • Filed to: Vietnam war, Land Rover | 3
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Air is not good enough to hike today... so I’ve been hunting for M37 pics, I ran across an archive of Aussie and Kiwi pictures. I did find an M37 in Aussie use which I’ve never seen. Pays to keep digging, without this nobody will ever find these pics, they are not labeled for a search.
Some unique ones first, these are M601 Dodges that the US Army did not use, these are modified WM300 that were sold to foreign militaries. They have no cab, open like an old WC on the sides and a soft top. The US went to the M37 in 1951 which shares that same drivetrain. They must have found this and got it in the deuce. The last one is a WC left over from the war.
Above is the Aussie M37. The rest, a few civi shots etc.. but mostly Land Rovers:
Just Jeepin'
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/21/2020 at 19:32 |
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That pin-up is...unfortunate.
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> Just Jeepin'
09/21/2020 at 19:37 |
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Ha, I forgot I saw that before. Yeah there aren’t always good artists around. You get bored too...
ttyymmnn
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/21/2020 at 20:24 |
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Bristol Freighter! And what looks like a Grumman OV-1 Mohawk getting towed down the road. Great shots.
sony1492
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/21/2020 at 20:26 |
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WE DONT NEED HEADLIGHTS, WE NEED FLOWERS
Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/21/2020 at 20:47 |
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Depending on when in the war those photos were taken, there’s a good chance my FIL was in the cockpit of one of those Bristol Freighters.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
09/21/2020 at 21:35 |
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did he ever d escribe what it was like?
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> sony1492
09/21/2020 at 22:08 |
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Apparently that was a captured staff car from the north.
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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
> gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
09/21/2020 at 23:16 |
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Only the entertaining bits, l ike selling refrigeration services to the Army by taking crates of beer along in the unheated hold on supply drops and flying nice and high on the way home.
The first time I met him (when the wife was still the girlfriend) he also
told me the “true” story of him
winning an Air Force Cross during the
Malayan Emergency
. The funny thing about this is he’d never told it to his wife or kids - I found out
many years
later
that I only got it becuase
he was really nervous about meeti
ng
me. Apparently
my (now)
wife had got in a snit with him a couple of years earlier for being mean to her boyfriends and told him the next one he met would be her husband and he better be nice to them or else!
S
he’d then completely forgotten about her threat and it was a complete co-incidence that he hadn’t met any more before me - w
e were *waaay* before the “thinking about
marriage”
stage (
even though it turned out to be true in the end). B
ut her dad
had remembered how angry she’d got with him
and was scared shitless her mother
would kill him if he scared me off
.
Anyway, the official story was that he earned an AFC as navigator (and the pilot a DFC) after an incident where they had to fly 100 miles home at treetop height, at below rated stall speed, on one engine, after having the other shot out by ground fire during a low level supply drop .
Not mentioned in the citation (due to the crew not feeling the brass needed to know) was that the navigator (my FIL, who wasn’t a qualified pilot never mind rated in Bristols ) was flying the plane at the time of the engine loss, and that they were deliberately below stall speed and lower than mission parameters as he and the pilot were competing over how accurately they could place the dropped cargo! With one engine out, they couldn’t get back into normal flight and had to wallow the whole way home at 45 knots, flying round any terrain because they couldn’t climb over it, while the crew chief threw anything he could unbolt out the back. Appare ntly the Bristols were an incredibly forgiving and stable aircraft: he reckoned that in any other plane they wouldn’t have got home alive, but in any other plane they wouldn’t have been daft enough to play silly buggers in combat in the first place...
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> sony1492
09/21/2020 at 23:54 |
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I had no idea the Traction Avant was so popular in east Asia.
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gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
09/23/2020 at 00:06 |
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it funny how those weird stories come out. My grandfather was on a tanker up to Murmansk, and after being couped up they “ borrowed” a tractor to make a baseball field in the snow. Shocker, the tractor the ft is not lightley dealt with in stalin russia. After trying to figure out what to do the guard cocked his ppsh and marched them all back to the ship.