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[gemmer]

A spiffy post war M16 with a Twin 40mm Duster behind it.

The Duster and quad .50 were still in use in Vietnam for convoy protection and firebase defense.

Duane

[PinecastleAAF]

Here is a link to an earlier WIX thread on this subject. Good stuff. Perhaps they should be merged?

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... 01&start=0

[Scott Rose]

Here is a link to an earlier WIX thread on this subject. Good stuff. Perhaps they should be merged?

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=34101&start=0

Good Idea, make it so! Oh wait, I have to do that... okay, done.

[cobrahistorian]

99% of the stuff on the first page is now with me at the US Army Air Defense Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, OK. The museum was moved from Fort Bliss to Fort Sill in 2011 and we reopened for business in 2013. The M15A1 CGMC is currently on exhibit and when our other two M15A1s arrive, that particular track will be joining our living history AAA Automatic Weapons section (one M16 MGMC and one M15A1 CGMC) as a live vehicle once again.

Our hours are 9-5 Tuesday through Saturday. Come check us out on Facebook at Air Defense Artillery Museum!

v/r

Jon Bernstein
Director
US Army Air Defense Artillery Museum

[cobrahistorian]

A spiffy post war M16 with a Twin 40mm Duster behind it.

The Duster and quad .50 were still in use in Vietnam for convoy protection and firebase defense.

Duane

That's actually an M19 MGMC in the background. Same guns and similar turret to the M42 Duster, but designed during WWII and used in combat in Korea. It mated the M24 Chaffee hull with the twin 40mm mount in a fully traversing turret. Only 300 were built, however and all were produced in 1945. They were replaced in service by 1953 by the M42 Duster, which used the M41 Walker Bulldog hull and a far more powerful powerplant.

The quad .50s used in Vietnam were the M55 towed variants, usually mounted either on M35 2.5 ton or M54 5 ton trucks. No M16 MGMCs were used by US forces in Vietnam.

Jon