Hello Chance Wolf,
The article in Military Vehicles Magazine #81 says that Eve of Destruction is on
display in the US Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia.
Pete Davis
pandr@cybertours.com
chance wolf wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave" <b52d@southwind.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 4:02 PM
> Subject: [MV] M-54 Convoy Gun Trucks
>
> > I have a friend who is interested in building up an M-54 convoy escort
> truck
> > and is researching all manner of stuff. One question he asked was if
> > anybody in the U.S. has done this already and I did not know.
> >
> > So, does anybody know of such a project or any reasons why a person would
> > not want to take on this challenge? We are aware that they are big, heavy
> > and suck gas like you own your own well, but beyond that.......
>
> We have a number of M54 gassers out at the farm, and bought the "Gun Trucks"
> book with the aim of converting one over for film and TV - possibly
> utilizing a stripped M113 hull like they did on some of them - but not
> necessarily.
>
> I don't know of anyone who's actually *built* one from diagrams and wartime
> photographs, but I do know that one of the M54's was repatriated to the U.S.
> after its Southeast Asia service, and now sits as part of a public
> collection somewhere. I can look up the title of the book and info
> concrerning the whereabouts of the Gun Truck if anyone's interested, but as
> all that stuff's at work, it won't be until Monday. They all had names, of
> course, like "Dragon Lady" and "Ace of Spades" etc., and I believe the
> preserved one sported the name "Eve of Destruction".
>
> Andy Hill
> MVPA 9211
> Vancouver, B.C.
>
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