Download Vietnam Gun Trucks (New Vanguard, Volume 184) by Gordon Rottman PDF
By Gordon Rottman
While US wrestle devices begun arriving in Vietnam in mid-1965 they have been in the beginning dependent in coastal towns. Munitions and offers have been added through sea at ports to without delay offer the newly arrived forces. It was once no longer lengthy ahead of American devices started to enterprise into the nation-state to interact the VC within the components they managed. lots of those parts have been good inland and ahead bases needed to be proven. those bases needed to be continually provided and required loads of tonnage. offers needed to be transported overland from the coastal ports of Qui Nhon and Cam Ranh Bay at Bong Son, An Khe, Pleiku, Dalat, and Buon Ma Thuot. Later, extra inland bases have been confirmed and extra seaports opened. The logistical efforts accelerated and it grew to become a huge attempt to run convoys to those bases. realize the background of the little-known yet extremely important improvised automobiles, or 'gun trucks', that have been constructed in-theatre in Vietnam through the motor vehicle crews themselves to guard convoys from Viet Cong ambushes during this highly-detailed, fully-illustrated name from our well known New leading edge sequence.
Read Online or Download Vietnam Gun Trucks (New Vanguard, Volume 184) PDF
Best military books
The Battle of the St. Lawrence; The Second World War in Canada
On may possibly eleven, 1942, a German U-boat torpedoed SS Nicoya, violently finishing a peace in Canada's waters that stretched again to 1812. by way of the tip of 1944, one other 18 service provider ships and 4 Canadian warships will be destroyed. greater than three hundred males, girls and children— together with at the very least 260 Canadians— died by way of explosion, hearth or icy drowning.
Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em: The Mysterious Loss of the WWII Submarine USS Gudgeon
Now in paperback, revised and up-to-date, the stirring and authoritative account of 1 of worldwide struggle II's so much hugely embellished submarines
Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em is the 1st ebook to recount the tragic and mysterious lack of the area struggle II submarine USS Gudgeon. In April 1944, the hugely adorned submarine USS Gudgeon slipped underneath the waves in a single of the main treacherous patrol parts within the most threatening army provider in the course of global warfare II. Neither the Gudgeon nor the group used to be ever visible again.
Author Mike Ostlund's “Uncle Bill,” the operator of a farm implements company, was once aboard that send as a lieutenant junior grade. via large learn of patrol experiences in U. S. and eastern naval data, interviews with veterans who had served aboard the Gudgeon ahead of its ultimate patrol, and the private results of the misplaced men's kinfolk, Ostlund has assembled the main exact account but of this remarkably profitable submarine's exploits, of the boys aboard from steward to captain, and of what we now find out about her loss of life. locate 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em information the thoughts and existence classes of the younger males who went to sea aboard Gudgeon sooner than its final patrol figuring out rarely whatever, and got here domestic having obvious an excessive amount of.
The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise And Fall Of An Empire
The Napoleonic Wars observed battling on an unheard of scale in Europe and the Americas. It took the wealth of the British Empire, mixed with the may of the continental armies, virtually twenty years to convey down one of many world’s maximum army leaders and the empire that he had created. Napoleon's final defeat was once to figure out the historical past of Europe for nearly a hundred years.
- French Infantry Tanks. Part II (including R 35 and FCM 36)
- Thunder In the East (Wingman, Book 4)
- Traitor?
- Command English - A Course in Military English: Student's Book (ELT)
- Napoleon's German Allies (5) : Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kassel (Men at Arms Series, 122)
- The USS Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine
Additional resources for Vietnam Gun Trucks (New Vanguard, Volume 184)
Sample text
Some did not make it back, however, and were repaired by the unit armorer. There was no limit on reasonable spare parts requests. The number of machine guns varied from two to six, with three or four being common. Ideally the guns would provide 360-degree coverage from multiple guns, especially covering the vehicle sides. 50-cals and M60s. 50-cals, with a few retaining an M60. 50-cal, but these were scarce. Seldom was more than one Minigun mounted. Gun truck armament was not static; it frequently changed when crews were able to obtain additional weapons.
Each truck also carried an M79. The machine-gun shield was frequently removed to allow easier and faster reloading and barrel changing. Spare barrels were carried forward. The rounded portion of the gunner’s compartment was armored and in some cases a rectangular armor panel was placed on the mount’s rear to protect the gunner’s back, and armored cab doors were installed on some trucks. Some transportation units acquired M55s, but usually mounted them on 5-tonners. Like more conventional gun trucks, the cargo bed was paved with 100-round ammunition cans, often over a layer of sandbags.
They bore a wide variety of names, ranging from promises of mayhem and vengeance, popular movie and TV show titles, popular songs, rock bands, incorporating the truck commander’s name or a girl’s name, patriotic themes, boisterous and inane slogans, popular cultural fads and icons, and witty, rowdy, humorous, or purely atrocious titles, some with a hint of cynicism or rebellion. Besides the truck’s name, various slogans or quotes might be displayed. Sometimes garish parent truck company designations were painted in the truck’s rear and many forms of painted flags, pictures, logos, and symbols were displayed.