He recalls the M37 he was driving getting hit by some small caliber RPG
and blowing a rear wheel off and damaging the rear differential. While
being sporadically fired at, he and another fellow disconnected the rear
drive shaft, cut a small tree down and lashed the trunk to the rear diff
to make a crude skid and limped the truck about one mile to the firebase
using the front wheel drive.
Today he is retired and has a restored M37 as a daily driver and loves
every minute of it. He can't understand though, why anyone would want
an M715.
Jim Rice
'43 GPW
'52 M38
'51 M100
M151 A1 wrote:
>
> My uncle was in a Special Ops unit in Vietnam. He spent most of his time in
> Cambodia and Laos. They used the M715 quite a lot for hauling materials
> around. He said he remembered the truck being underpowered for the kind of
> abuse it received. He also said the guys over their preferred the M37 for the
> severe off-road driving capabilities.
>
> Jason
>
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