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| Subject: | Re: If you ever travel in California (Hwy 101)... |  |
| Date: | Apr 14, 2003 |
| From: | Tom Hall | |
Yc,
Was the M3A3 "Battlin' Bitch" still there? Great reference for the new kit. It's probably most famous as the 'Twilight Zone' tank from the "Little Big Horn" episode.
I think the APC is an M59. Parts a Universal Carrier were out back, too, painted with japanese markings (for a training film?).
The late Al Davis, who really got the museum rolling, took me out to the impact range once and it was a wonderland of Sherman & Priest carcasses; there are also two very early Stuarts (very shot up) and M5A1 about a quarter mile south of the museum. The rumor is that at least four Shermans are buried out there due to a "I don't care how you get rid them" clean-up many years ago.
Supposedly there was a Lee hull on the range for rifle grenade practice, and at Hunter-Liggett (filming site for 'We Were Soldiers') there was another Lee & Stuart that were hauled out to the range in 1986!
Enough rambling....
---------THALL |
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