fesm_ndt Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Had a Vietamese student in my class this week and got discussing MV's and he sent pictures of the following wrecks by the beach that he photographed http://www.panoramio.com/photo/15351396 http://www.panoramio.com/photo/14750151 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharky Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 is that a walker bulldog in the first picture? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 First one is an M41 the second photo of an APC is an M113 with the M41 in the trees to the left Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulob1 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 the second picture of the m113 shows another tank in the trees, not the same M41 as the first picture...but amazing after all these years they are still there...and appearing to be in relatively good order, are they memorials or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 (edited) It's another M41 turret facing 12 o clock Edited November 10, 2010 by steveo578 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 . are they memorials or something... Apparently taken 5 years ago and was basically where they were abandonned. Glad I could provide some entertainment. I had some Yemeni guys on course also so I asked if the knew of any wrecks over there way also Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzkpfw-e Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 The place is littered with them! (Just incase that doesn't post) http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/30143 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fesm_ndt Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 Apparently a lot have been scrounged up for the local museums but who knows what is laying around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 You stirred a very vague memory here, but wasn't the Chaffee on the second series of Tank Overhaul from Vietnam? (or they ran a segment on the ?French ones there...?) Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 Stone You stirred a very vague memory here, but wasn't the Chaffee on the second series of Tank Overhaul from Vietnam? (or they ran a segment on the ?French ones there...?) I think they ran a segment on the M24s flown into Dien Bien Phu -I'can't remember if they said where the M24 in the programme came from -I suspect it was from the USA. The post French Indo-China was M24s used in Vietnam were interesting along, with the M41s and PCs they were often refered to a Coup bugys by US advisers and journalists being used in several coups -the last president of South Vietnam -an air force colonel kept redundant M24s at several air bases as an insurance. The M41s and M113s shown in the pictures were probably later than the Communist takeover having continued in service during the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia to put down the Kamer Rouge in the 1980s and served on the border against possible Chinese incursions into the 1990s. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theredkite Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 I think the Dien Bien Phu M24s are still there, as a form of memorial. A quick google brought up this website: http://www.chars-francais.net/new/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=90&Itemid=41 It's in French, but if you scroll down there are modern pictures of Bazeilles, Auerstadt, Saumur and maybe others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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