NATO Exercise

[Robert Farrant]

I have been trawling through my old photos and came up with these picture of US trucks returning to Germany after an exercise in UK. Can't be sure of the date, but I think it was the late '70's

[les freathy]

I think you are about right on the date Bob you gave me a couple of the shots you took, It seems a life time away when that old A20 by pass ran into the roundabout and then swung round to the left all now swamped by the M20 and tescos did you take any other shots

[Lord Burley]

Richard.Anymore pics from this exercise?

[Richard Farrant]

Richard. Anymore pics from this exercise?

 

Mark,

 

That is my brother, Robert who posted those photos. He has just joined, I knew it would cause confusion :-D

[snowtracdave]

I remember seeing very similar vehicles heading down to Fingringhoe Ranges & the time period would be about right .

[Robert Farrant]

Richard.Anymore pics from this exercise?

I think there are 3 or 4 more shots from that convoy, I will try and post them at the weekend.

Robert

[Lord Burley]

Thanks :thumbsup:

[Robert Farrant]

Mark, as promised I have found the rest of the pictures taken of the convoy, unfortunately a lot are of poor quality, difficult to focus on moving vehicles, but I have found four more for you to see.

[schliesser92]

Oh, some German snuck in there - the Mog radio van! The date would be right as the US vehicles are in MERDC camoflague, and the Mog in Bundeswehr "Gelb-Oliv". It appears to be an engineer unit, as the first pic shows a dump truck, with the bumper-code suggesting that it belonged to the 70th Engineer Bn .