The Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Va.
Mar 13, 2016 14:45:36 #
A powerful museum dedicated to the few that gave so much...
The Ontos
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Vietnam
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F4u Corsair (read the wall)
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Harrier
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from the outside
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Mar 13, 2016 14:53:32 #
Looks like a very nice museum. Thanks for sharing it with us. I'm assuming you served, so thank you for your service. Semper Fi! Cheers.
Mar 13, 2016 15:45:30 #
For the Marines, the M50 Antos was a light-armored, tracked, infantry-support vehicle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Ontos
Mar 13, 2016 15:59:35 #
flathead27ford wrote:
Looks like a very nice museum. Thanks for sharing it with us. I'm assuming you served, so thank you for your service. Semper Fi! Cheers.
You assume correctly. I was a Marine, now retired.
Mar 14, 2016 09:38:06 #
jwhphotos wrote:
You assume correctly. I was a Marine, now retired.
Nice set.......Welcome Home!!!!!
Mar 14, 2016 22:22:12 #
jwhphotos wrote:
You assume correctly. I was a Marine, now retired.
Was a Marine?
I'd put it more as a currently inactive Marine.
--Bob
Mar 15, 2016 00:20:36 #
Mar 24, 2016 15:32:38 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
For the Marines, the M50 Antos was a light-armored, tracked, infantry-support vehicle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Ontos
Yeppers, I remember it well. In early 1965 Chu Lia Viet-nam, we used to escort the tanks on patrol and they had a few Ontos that would be there. Some of the roads and bridges would be to small for the tanks to cross but the Ontos was small enough to cross, so we would escort them into some of the villages.
Sometimes in combat they would be perched atop a hill and would fire tracer 50mm at their targets and once they spotted their target then they would cut loose with all six 105mm barrels at the same time. Truly awesome sight. I stopped seeing them after about 3 or 4 months.
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