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Now that I've found the correct spot, I'll re-post this.
Previously I had asked some questions about M105 1 1/2 ton trailers for a model project I'm planning to do in a few months, and that led to a request to post some photos of some models I'd already done, which I put in the wrong place.
So based on that request, I've moved the thread to where it should have been.
My first unit was 1st Battalion, 2nd Field Artillery, 8th Infantry Division in Baumholder, Germany where I was assigned from October 1972 until August 1975. I've been building vehicles from that unit with a goal of ultimately having at least one of each type vehicle on the TO&E. There will be a couple that I won't do, but I will have a fair representation of the kinds of vehicles we had.
This particular build is our Battery Mess Truck. Unlike Tank and Mech Infantry units, the vast majority of the Battery in a Field Artillery unit remains co-located with the "company trains" for most of the time, and so practice at that time was for the Mess Section to cook and serve Breakfast and Supper as hot "A" ration meals. To facilitate things but to remain able to move on short notice the section's cooking equipment was mounted in a unit made shelter mounted in the bed of the sections M35. Meals were cooked and served off of the truck. This was common for pretty much most units that I observed at that time.
So this first set of photos are the initial construction of the shelter prior to mounting it in the truck bed.
Previously I had asked some questions about M105 1 1/2 ton trailers for a model project I'm planning to do in a few months, and that led to a request to post some photos of some models I'd already done, which I put in the wrong place.
So based on that request, I've moved the thread to where it should have been.
My first unit was 1st Battalion, 2nd Field Artillery, 8th Infantry Division in Baumholder, Germany where I was assigned from October 1972 until August 1975. I've been building vehicles from that unit with a goal of ultimately having at least one of each type vehicle on the TO&E. There will be a couple that I won't do, but I will have a fair representation of the kinds of vehicles we had.
This particular build is our Battery Mess Truck. Unlike Tank and Mech Infantry units, the vast majority of the Battery in a Field Artillery unit remains co-located with the "company trains" for most of the time, and so practice at that time was for the Mess Section to cook and serve Breakfast and Supper as hot "A" ration meals. To facilitate things but to remain able to move on short notice the section's cooking equipment was mounted in a unit made shelter mounted in the bed of the sections M35. Meals were cooked and served off of the truck. This was common for pretty much most units that I observed at that time.
So this first set of photos are the initial construction of the shelter prior to mounting it in the truck bed.
