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I like the Haunted Tank. One kick-butt Stuart that could take on Tigers (LOL).
Well, the Haunted Tank did have J.E.B. Stuart riding shotgun, the panzers didn’t stand a chance.
do u guys get commando comics over there
One more time in English now please? Just for those non-German speakers here! [:I]
(Although I did get that last line pretty well!) [:D][:D][:D]
“Close-in defense weapon” or something approximating that.
A “S-mine” discharger. Nothing to monkey around with, unless you need some extra ventilation. [:p]
Remember the scene in Saving Private Ryan when Tom Hanks empties his Thompson into the drivers vision slit? I don’t think so. I think the “sticky bomb” thing was a little overblown too. I mean, have you ever tried to make a greasy sock stick to metal?
In Vietnam we had alot of sappers jump on our M48’s with all kinds of ordnance. They would pop out of a hidy hole with a satchel charge or some other type of improvised mine and try,try mind you, to take us out. We always wired down the grille doors on the back deck to make sure they couldn’t yank them open and toss in a grenade or something, that could ruin your day. My favorite thing was taking these jokers off the turret of the next tank in my section with AP 50 cal., we called it “scratching his back”, and of course he would do the same for me. The vision blocks are not indestructible, but they will obstruct any effort to violate the sanctity of the turret, even when they are shot and cracked.
You’ve got to be Sgt. Rock to jump on a Tiger or any other tank for that matter, you may succeed in disabling it, but you’re probably not going to live thru the experience.
Just my [2c]-Steve
Hahahaha,great thread guys! Unfortunately not everyones favourite fightin man was from the pages of DC,good ol Sgt Fury and his Howlin Commandos was mine! [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/sas/73299851734.jpg[/img] It seems that jumpin on the backs of tanks and blazin away was a fav pastime of these two groups! [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/sas/73311440338.jpg[/img] Anyways it was great readin material and as a kid I couldnt get enough of it!
Great topic guys!
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Sgt. Fury was good, too. But he had that effeminate guy with his “bumbershoot”. The most wimpy guy in Easy Co. was Ice Cream Soldier who was actually not a wimp in the least.
And how about Johnny Cloud, the native American P-51 pilot? He had some kind of mantra where he would chant to himself “I am the gun” and proceed to blast another FW from the sky.