Can anyone give me some details of a Vietnam M 48 Patton? I’m thinking about building a Vietnam Patton and I was hoping someone could give me some detail photos, or something. Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
I have some that I got from wf6h here. Email me and I can send you some
Anything else you might need let me know, I have bunches of pictures, So look thru the pictures Jason sent you and if you need anything more or in particular let me know.
Ken
There are some Vietman Armor books for sale that might help. maybe Squadern or signal publications might have them.
A Patton used by the Vietnamese or a Patton that served in Vietnam? The US used several variants: the M48A2, M48A3, M67 and the AVLB. Not sure which variants we gave to the ARVN to use.
ARVN’s used M113’s and M41’s and they couldn’t hit the side of a barn if they were inside…
You’re probably right about them not using the M48, but the last part of your post makes absolutely no sense to me.
I haven’t emailed him anything= haven’t heard back
Sure it made sence -at least to me… The ARVN’s were not the best of shots! They had a hard time with the M41’s - No way were we going to give them M48’s…[:D]
There I fixed it - That’s what happens when you fingers move faster then your Brain[banghead]
ive seen a photo of the ARVN with M48A3s but it was in 1972-75
they used to take there familys with them
72-75 I couldn’t remark that late, but anything is possible, I was there
66-67-68-69… I will do a little research, sounds interesting.
Possibly an answer to that, We carried ARVN’s on our tanks quite often. Didn’t look forward to it but we did. Off to look around some more…
I think that when we pulled out after the “paris peace” that we left alot off our gear over there. I know that the navy and coast guard transfered almost all of the small craft directly to south vietnam instead of bringing it back so i belive the army and marines might of also.
I was there in '72, 1st CAV task force Gary Owen, we not only transitioned the ARVN to the M48A3 but left them an entire depot level maintenance system right down to the wrenches. The level of dedication to learning things like gunnery and tactics, plus the quality of our interpreters was dismal. You would often see ARVN crewed tanks missing targets because they didn’t understand the ammunition types, what they were for, and how to set up the fire control to shoot accurately. We did our best to instruct them, but, the whole situation at that time was FUBAR.
Steve
I’ve been gone for a day or two. Hey, JWest21, do you know if there was a M 48 with the words “Death Dealers” written down the side of the barrel? Please reply. Oh, JWest2, my e-mail address is modelingmonkey@yahoo.com. Please send some photos of the M48. Thank you.
Here is a good modeling site regarding Patton tanks of all types. Perhaps their links page can send you in the right direction.
Andrew
What I can remember is there was a Death Dealer, C.V. Cummings. USMC, 1st Tank Battalion, Around 1970 or so.
Since I was Army. Don’t know a whole lot about it. Maybe some of the Marines out here can help. You can also do some research, Try USMC armor in Viet Nam and see what you get. Good Luck
Ken
on the way, modelingmonkey. I forwarded you Ken (wf6h)'s excellent pictures. Thanks, Ken!
PS- let me know if they work out
There are several good books out there with pics of the ARVN M-48’s. Squadrons book on Vietnam armor, an Osprey book on the same subject and a great hardback called Vietnam Tracks.
…Just a point about the ARVN and the M-41. While it is true they gave rather timid use of the bulldog initially, mostly as security details, they did some rather brillant fighting with them. In fact they found it’s agility and well stabilized gun rendered it more then a match for T-54’s,T-55’s and PT-76’s.It’s high velocity 76mm gun easily flamed all of the North’s armor. For a while the North lost quite a bit of armour to them. This precipitated the appearance of the AT-3 Sagger for the north(coupled of course with the superb showing of American M48’s and Austrailian Centurions). After suffering some grevious loses to Sagger’s, the ARVN redployed their armor mainly for close cover fighting. They proved to be rather manical with their Bulldogs in rather fierce urban combat. In fact the fall of Saigon champaign saw some rather inhuman work by the old bulldogs, before they ran out of support and fell silent…