From: Keith Byrd (byrdhouse@netease.net)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 23:14:21 PST
Fred,
That you have described sounds like a self propelled 8 in.
howitzer. The dozer blade on the back is a recoil spade. It is lowered into
the ground to keep the carriage (vehicle) from rolling backward when fired.
I believe there may have been a few nuke projectiles made for them.
I recently had a friend who sold one to the Littlefield collection.
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Martin <mung@in-touch.net>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:22 AM
Subject: [MV] USMC Armor Question
> While attached to a dock landing ship and in the far east in the 59/60
> era....we loaded a marine outfit at Buckner Bay, Okinawa and hauled them
> to Yokosuka, Japan for R&R. When arriving there we were informed by the
> Japanese government that we couldn't bring them into Japan because the
> (2?) tanks in the welldeck were capable of firing an atomic round.
> (probably treaty stuff) I personally went up on deck and looked at what
> we were carrying. I seen a tank that had a (what looked like a dozer
> blade on the back) and a main gun that looked to be in the range of 8 or
> 9" bore. Also, I noticed that on one barrel it said "Terrible Tony".
> Does anyone know anything about these? We took the marine outfit to
> Subic Bay, Phillipines....way better liberty....plus San Miguel beer.
> grin While underway...I heard two marines talking about if the ship
> went down and they were in a lifeboat....what would you wish for? One
> spoke up and said "Make the ocean turn into beer". The other one said
> "you dumba$$....we'd have to pee in the boat!" Fred
>
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