From: Buck & Rami Sharp (bls@inebraska.com)
Date: Mon Jun 21 2004 - 10:17:31 PDT
what vehicle the pickup? or the half-track? pretty cool to find something
like that on a car lot. i did not see any plates on the truck just curious.
it looks like it would pull it fine but i would not run up and down the
mountains loaded that heavy.hope the trailer brakes work. thanks for the
link for the pictures
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Brian Seeling" <JBSeeling@cox-internet.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:50 AM
Subject: [MV] Kick the Bucket?
> I've got an M16 half-track with the quad-mount in the back. Took it to
the
> D-Day Museum in New Orleans to display for the 60th Anniversary weekend.
> Photos from the trip can be seen at the following link. The album is
> private, so if you can't click on the link, copy and paste the url into
your
> browser's address line. One more thing, I don't know if my rig for
hauling
> the half-track and trailer is legal and since I've already made it there
and
> back, I'll save that question for a future post.
>
> Here are the pics: <http://Seeling.smugmug.com/gallery/141849/1/4564308>
>
> I got this vehicle from a used car lot in Texarkana, TX, after its
previous
> owner, Keith White, was killed in a plane crash. If anyone recognizes
this
> vehicle and can help me on its history, please reply off-list.
>
> In the photos, you can see that there's a bucket on the back of the
> half-track, on the left-hand side. I've been told that the boxes next to
> the bucket on the back of the vehicle are "ration boxes" and assume that
> these hold food. However, what is the purpose of the bucket?
>
> I believe that this is the most common question I was asked by the younger
> generation of WWII enthusiasts, and I never thought to ask any of the vets
> while I was there.
>
> I do have a good TM, and Hunnicut's book on american half-tracks, but in
my
> review of both looking for the answer, it didn't jump out at me.
Hunnicut's
> book shows the bucket (or the stop-sign looking bracket) on the anti-tank
> (forward-firing howitzer) half-tracks, starting with the 57mm Gun Motor
> Carriage, T48, (photos dated 3 Aug 42) on page 107. Almost all of the
> anti-aircraft half-tracks have them (the M15A1 being the exception). So,
> what's the bucket's purpose?
>
> - John Brian Seeling
> Alexandria, LA
>
>
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