Nostalgia & History > RRS (11): FGE Solid Gold, GW gon plow, DODX flat (not tank!)

1. FGE 191776 Flatrock, MI 11/7/82 by Jim Marcus

2. Great Western 098 Loveland, CO 9/26/85 my shot

3. DODX 40257 Longmont, CO 1/15/90 my shot

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I think the GW 098 plow was from a road grader plow and a RI gon.
Tom Klinger

Any tankers here to tell us what models on the DODX flat?

boejoe Wrote:
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> Any tankers here to tell us what models on the
> DODX flat?

Although I was in the Artillery in the 2nd Armored Division (1965 & 1966), those look like the M48 tanks that they had HUNDREDS of.

M60A1 Patton, the standard tank of the European cold war era, and the successor to the post WWII M48. The shape/curve in the turret is the spotting id.


RickL

RickL Wrote:
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> M60A1 Patton, the standard tank of the European
> cold war era, and the successor to the post WWII
> M48. The shape/curve in the turret is the spotting
> id.
>
>
> RickL

Excellent! Thanks, as those LOOKED like the tanks we had in Fort Hood, Texas (home of both 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions), back in 1965 and 1966, but I just didn't know the CORRECT model. Thanks again.

They were very similar, and the M60 was actually a direct modification of the M48 design. Just a bigger turret & turret ring for the larger gun and very different driving controls. The M48 started out with a 90mm gun and eventually went up to a 105mm. The M60 used the 105mm, with variants up to a 152mm.

RickL



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/18 20:58 by RickL.

RickL Wrote:
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> They were very similar, and the M60 was actually a
> direct modification of the M48 design. Just a
> bigger turret & turret ring for the larger gun and
> very different driving controls. The M48 started
> out with a 90mm gun and eventually went up to a
> 105mm. The M60 used the 105mm, with variants up to
> a 152mm.
>
> RickL

Did a little bit more "research", and discovered that the tank model we had in 1965 & 1966 were indeed the M48A3, still with the 90MM main armament. Apparently the M60 model tank came out much later, i.e. after I was discharged, and returned to work.

I suspect you're right. Its just before my time (late seventies) but the M48As were still in use in Vietnam. I'm sure all M60 production would have gone to Europe.

Rick