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To: GeronL
My grandfather was in coastal artillery down in Florida when the war started. Their guns were of pre-World War One vintage and mostly had ranges of less than ten miles.

He transferred over to tank destroyers a few months later, but all they were given were some rinky-dink M6's that were obsolete even before they rolled off the assembly line.

Fortunately they never deployed his unit with this vehicle, mainly due to the 95% vehicle loss suffered by the first TD battalion to deploy with the M6 (Kasserine Pass).

154 posted on 08/04/2013 5:39:16 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

bump

Probably kept those for National Guard or something


157 posted on 08/04/2013 5:54:13 PM PDT by GeronL
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