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50 years later Where’s the time gone

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FYI, The Smithsonian TV will air the movie 11-11-18 @ 21:00 est Sunday. 9:00pm est - 8:00pm cst Dish Channel 367 Direct Channel 570 6 yrs in the making, should be good! RED

BUMP To Top Lamson 719 8Feb71

Hey Jeff, We were escorting a convoy of new trucks when they collected the bounty on Satans LiL Angel ,,,,,, You may have one of them !! That would just be unreal,,,,,, They used one of them to build the Proud ? Listen to your truck and you may hear something... LOL ........ RED

I called that fellar from Kentucky at day break , he had been in the hospital again last week, visited with Baird on Facebook also.... Thanks For All You Do Sir. FTTE Red

45 yrs ago today,,,, 12Mar1971 Proud Amercian Guntruck Destroyed Robert Walter Thorne ..... The Driver was KIA ,, Gone But Never Forgotten ,,,, as long as I have breath ... he was my driver on Satans LiL Angel when it was Destroyed 20Feb1971 ,,,a great friend ... Lt Jim Baird ..... The convoy...

Time to bump to top ..... Red

sandcobra164,, Here is a picture after rebuild before going on convoy,,,then a few of what she looked like upon return.."RED For What It's Worth,,,,,,,, Written on right door in the mud....... Thornes' favorite song !!!!! We Gotta Get Out of This Place.... RIP FRIEND....

One More The Guntruck She was a mighty lady, as she rolled along the road.She was never meek or timid as she hauled her deadly load.She lived just for the ambush, where she charged so bravely in.And stayed there to protect her flock, till the ambush found it’s end.She carried so much...

Why am I just now finding this post ????? Morn Papabear Papabear, We will be bringing the 523rd Command Post,,, Got the windows in,,, She will have a few hail dents that are not fixed ,, But you just gotta do what ya gotta do,,,to get there..... my mind returned with this thought.... My Old...

Hey Bob, the other one was King Cobra ???? I was in 523rd across from The Ponderosa Red

Bring it on Houston,,, QUOTE=historyfanatics;1514967]Would you fellows allow a non-Transportation gun truck to join your merry band? I built The Widow Maker, a quad fifty gun truck which served with G Battery, 65th Artillery, in the I Corps area of Vietnam from 1865 to 1972. She was one of...

A Guntruck is a Guntruck...... Who said anything about transportation ?????? Bring it on Houston,,,,, The Widow Maker did run the roads of Vietnam,,, The Guntrucks were use as needed,,, We would go into hot LZs and get them there jump boys ,,, thats a story I don't tell much ...... We...

Proud American Guntruckby ProudAmerican » Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:38 pm The Proud American Guntruck (Tribute truck) was selected as the Military Vehicle of the Month by members of the Steel Soldiers Website. I think that is quite appropriate as she (the original) was lost in an ambush in March...