From: Dan Bever (goin_myway@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 15:27:13 PDT
Hi Dave, and List. I live in Indiana and my travels
around the state have found me checking out various
MV's parked in front of VFW, parts and court houses.
One of the most interesting was the German Buzz Bomb
(was that a V1, I can't remember) that was on a big V
cement pedestal in front of the Court house in
Greencastle, Indiana. My last trip there I saw that
it was gone. I attemted to contact the local chamber
of commerce to find out what happened to it. Does
anyone know what happened to this German Buzz Bomb. I
am sure it was the Real McCoy and I would like to
think that something stupid didn't happen to it. later
Dan Bever
MVPA 18507
--- MV <MV@dc9.tzo.com> wrote:
> The stuff that the DOD still owns can be moved
> without the permission of
> the current holder of the items. There was a
> story a while back of a
> legion hall I believe in Bluffton, IN that lost a
> tank. The tank was
> transported to Wisconsin for restoration. At the
> time the restoring
> group was active on this list. There are several
> tanks in Indiana in
> front of legion halls just rusting away. One is
> right off of I-69 north
> of Indy. I see it about once a week.
>
> Dave
>
> m35products wrote:
> > There was a case a few years ago that involved a
> guy who advertised in
> > typical men's magazines, looking for "information"
> about military guns,
> > field pieces, cannon, etc, used as memorials, so
> that he could "document"
> > their existence and locations. He was eventually
> exposed as a person who
> > was letting others locate the next victims of his
> larcenous endeavors.
> >
> > A few American Legion and VFW halls awoke to find
> their displays had been
> > removed.
> >
> > The legal aspect is: Like most used military stuff
> that is disseminated to
> > civilians, these weapons, even if totally rusted
> out, welded shut, or 150
> > years out of date, still belong to the DoD, and
> can be still inventoried and
> > reclaimed. Has it happened recently? Dunno, but a
> few Vietnam era tanks are
> > placed around at VFW halls, and these tanks are
> inspected regularly, (by I
> > don't know whom,) to ensure that they haven't
> strayed.
> >
> > APB
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <chesnimnus@juno.com>
> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 1:58 PM
> > Subject: [MV] Vintage cannon: Can they be had?
> >
> >
> >
> >>After talking with a couple folks over the last
> week about our club's
> >
> > M-5H-6 project, I would like to possibly find an
> M1 155 howitzer or an M2
> > 105mm howitzer to trail behind the truck. (I
> believe the 155 was later
> > renamed the M101.) Has anyone tried to do this?
> I suspect that the Army or
> > Marines may have one of these sitting somewhere
> that could be donated to the
> > museum for use as a display with this truck. If
> anyone has any experience
> > with this, I would love to hear from you. Since
> they are probably obsolete,
> > they should not be worth anything to the military.
> Or they should have an
> > old broken or worn-out model that they could part
> with. Or if anyone knows
> > of a memorial that has been taken down to clear
> the way for civil progress
> > (urban sprawl), that they would be willing to
> donate to a new home. If any
> > old empty shells would be available, that would be
> an added bonus.
> >
> >>FYI, I may have switched the numbers of each gun.
> I am not an expert, and
> >
> > only know what I do from some online research I
> have done over the last
> > couple days.
> >
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