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I've recently discovered two important pieces of trivia! One is the name of the soldier who painted Super V on the nose of this machine and he wants to come by the shop and check it out. Also he has more photos and 8mm film from over there. Second thing relates to the field install of the M2HB...

I remember at the beginning of this project asking for at least a single photo of this machine while in Vietnam and here lately I seem to get regular updates. Unfortunately some of the pictures are from sons or daughters of the soldiers that had them. Here is an early (late '69 or early '70)...

When the Super V nose art first went on this vehicle it was in Quang Tri Vietnam 55 years ago, now it is back on the same vehicle it first appeared on, right here in Carrollton, GA

I was talking with Patrick today and he was telling me about the 504th C Company being the northernmost MP unit in Vietnam, located in Quang Tri. When you look at a map, I guess you can't really get much further north than that without crossing into the DMZ

Rory I have to admit that luck was probably the largest contributor to the success of this project. Had it not been for early photos showing the registration and vehicle number, there's really no way I could have been able to connect the dots. After having done so, it has helped connect the...

I know I have been tracing down the history of the V100 we are working on in our shop since '21. Although the restoration officially started in the mid '80s, we started with only a limited set of facts to go on and are only recently tracking down clearer details and accounts of it's military...

Here is a bit of a rare photo. Over the years I have seen very few armored vehicle interior shots while in war zones. This one features Elton Littlejohn who was on the relay team at USC in '67 with OJ Simpson. This is in fact the interior of Super V although there are no ways of proving it...or...

As far as Super V is concerned, ser# 10602, registration # 1304269, vehicle # C55 was built in '69 then sent to Vietnam served it's time there and was returned to the US in '72...really short service life when you consider what kind of sense it would make to scrap a 3 year old vehicle today...

Seemed the search for photos or finding other service members familiar with the V100 we are restoring (Super V) was becoming more and more elusive. Fortunately we kept up the pursuit and it's finally paying off. In these photos the third of the three V100's assigned to the 504th C Company called...

Been a while since we updated the Blood Sweat and Tears search. As it turns out, the reason nobody remembers "Blood Sweat and Tears" is because that was the second name given to the V100 and it happened after Don Tillman had gone home. A vet named Patrick Spinks sent a group of photos from his...

I think we may have finally cracked the case on the Blood Sweat and Tears V100. I have been in contact with a couple 504th C Company vets and they've been contacting old army buddies they've not talked to in nearly 55 years. As a result, nobody so far can place the BS&T V100 in their memories...

We found a picture of Don Tillman (red shirt) from around the time he lost his engraved Zippo. That lighter would remain lost for 52 years.

No I haven't, are these images available online or only in books?

Patrick Spinks (aka "Spunky") in the turret and Charles Hannigan in the driver's seat. 504th C aboard "The Texan" This was one of the V100s in the C company and I am told there were three V100s in their company, each had nose art. I have spoke with two veterans of the 504th C company and they...

If you ever come across one with 1304269 registration number, please advise!

Clicking through the slides that were sent to me from USMC Major Harold Itchkawich's estate in California, I came across this photo taken sometime in the late '60s. In a earlier phone conversation with the gentleman that was a friend of Harold's, I'm told he was 5'-7" and a man that made things...

Just received a collection of slides from late '60s to early '70s from the Major Harold Itchkawich, USMC estate in response to posts I have made looking for Vietnam era war photos that may have captured an image of the V100 we are restoring. Of course this V100 was not assigned to the USMC but...

Was able to make contact with a veteran named Patrick that arrived in country the same year at the BS&T V100 arrived, and was assigned to the same 504th Company C. There were four V100s there and all had nose art. He remembered Don Tillman and the Blood Sweat and Tears V100. Patrick (from west...

Just received this one. Not Blood Sweat and Tears but it probably did share the same mud.

Yes unfortunately their numbers are dwindling and it appears the few that are still among us either don't know or doesn't want to remember...which isn't a good thing to build a history lesson from. The one promising lead we had ended at an obituary. Jack Hamilton was a Vietnam vet with the...