The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Tiger - Slapton Sands (4/28/1944)- Apr. 29th, 2003

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq20-2.htm ^ | June 1988 | Charles B. MacDonald

[Soaring Feather]

Thank you Snippy!

Good to 'see' you!!!

[HiJinx]

It's good to 'see' you too! Wish I could stick around, but it's time to go get dinner fixin's for the family.

I'll be back later!

[snippy_about_it]

Good to 'see' and 'hear' you, too.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Light Speed.

I have a thread on "Operation Drumbeat" coming up. That was the German U-boat offensive off the East Coast in 1942.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Feather. It'll be nice to see the Butteflies come back.

[SAMWolf]

Hi Snippy.

[GATOR NAVY]

One goal of the LST Association is to reacquire an operational LST from one of the foreign countries, restore it, and put it on display as a memorial to to the sailors who manned these ships and to those who died serving their country on an LST.

The LST Association did get an LST from Greece and sailed it back to Mobile, AL. See http://www.uslst.org/lst325.htm for more pics and info.

[SAMWolf]

I wonder how many of those old LSTs are running around in South America?

[Soaring Feather]

You're welcome SAM, it's my pleasure indeed.

feather

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi everybody! Hope you all are having a great day.

Be back later.

[GATOR NAVY]

If I was at home I could look in my Combat Fleets of the World and tell you. I do know Chile and Brazil got some NEWPORT Class when we decommissioned them. Argentina and Venezuela were supposed to get some but I'm not sure if they actually did.

[GATOR NAVY]

Hey look, it works!

[SAMWolf]

Whenever you get the time. It'd be some nice trivia to know.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Victoria. See ya later.

[snippy_about_it]

Woo-hoo.

Well then...

Good Morning to you Gator Navy!

[snippy_about_it]

Hello Victoria. Hurry back.

[snippy_about_it]

Some 'east coast evening' entertainment.

Trio to National Emblem

My very favorite march by...you guessed it, the U.S. Navy Band.

[PhilDragoo]

1942- USA M5 Light Tank
Armament; 1 - 37mm gun
1- 0.3" coaxial MG
1 - 0.3" hull MG
1 - 0.5" AA MG
Engine: 2-Cadillac V-8, gas, 110hp each
Speed: 36 mph
Range; 99 miles
Crew: 4
Weight: 16.8 tons
This tank is equipped with fording gear for amphibious action. "If it won't float, we'll try driving it on the bottom." The M5 was the successor to the M3 Light tank, however the designation M4 was already used for the medium tank Sherman, hence M5 was used. Two ducts have been added, one for air intake, the other for exhaust. Thus the tank could be driven off the ramp of LST through the surf and onto the beach.

Taken June 7, 1944 Omaha Beach, Normandy, France

[Victoria Delsoul]

Hi guys, good to see you both!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the info and the great photos, Phil. Good job!