From: Glenn Shaw (milspectruck@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2006 - 05:26:19 PDT
Yes, I remember that half track very well in The Dirty Dozen. Lee
The Alamo wrote:
Marvin and the others running around in that half track produced some
great shots of it in action. As I recall there is a collector on Cape
Cod in Mass who has one that he used to bring to parades and
re-enactments. I believe it is a Czech OT810 however,and not an
original Sd.Kfz. Quite a machine.
Glenn
MVPA
MTANJ
>
> Jun 20 2006
>
> Greg,
> Following my posting of yesterday, as I have promised, I have checked
> my books (I did not remember that I have two more ones in English!):
> the movie is PLAY DIRTY - 1969, as also suggested by another Lister
> yesterday.
>
> It has been a pleasure to go through my books looking for your movie.
> There were a lot of war movies which I did not remember of... and
> many I have not seen because have been considered less important or
> marginal by our TV Stations.
> The only fault of "Play Dirty" are the U.S. half-tracks disguised as
> German Sd.Kfz. half-tracks. However, this is a minor fault because at
> the time all German half-tracks used in war movies were U.S. ones. In
> 1969 there were VERY VERY few mil-veh collectors owning running German
> WWII half-tracks. The only original one used in a movie I remember of
> is an German Sd.Kfz. half-track used at the end of DIRTY DOZEN. It
> seems that it was recovered in a British farm. Anybody does remember
> it?
> Regards and
> Keep Them Rolling!
>
> Raimondo
> 1943 GPW Jeep
>
> At 08.33 17/06/2006, GREG wrote:
>> OK, MV movie gurus - need some help out with this one.
>> I'm trying to find the title of this movie (or maybe it was a TV
>> movie?), but the only thing that some friends and I can remember
>> from it
>> is one scene where trucks are being winched up a cliff. Location was
>> probably supposed to be North Africa, time more than likely was
>> supposed
>> to be WW2. Movie was in color, if that helps. [...]
>> I'm trying to find the title of this movie (or maybe it was a TV
>> movie?),
>> but the only thing that some friends and I can remember from it is
>> one scene
>> where trucks are being winched up a cliff. Location was probably
>> supposed to
>> be North Africa, time more than likely was supposed to be WW2. Movie
>> was in
>> color, if that helps.
>>
>> Does this ring a bell with anyone?
>>
>> Greg
>
>
>
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