[leadpenny]

Thank you Snow Bunny, great subject this morning.

SAMWolf, you have put together a wonderful history of Armor. Just out of High School I enlisted for "Armor/Europe-Unassigned." Great option, eh? It meant that I would take BCT and AIT at Knox and head for Germany. In AIT, we trained as Armor Crewmen on the M48 and did get to take a spin in the new M60 for orientation.

When I arrived at Henry Kaserne just outside Munich, the 3/34 Armor was in the process of converting four companies to M60's and E Company, with its Heavy M103's, was being deactivated. The M48's still in use were all fitted with four 55 gallon drums on the back deck. The added fuel would be needed to make it to the border region in the event the Russians decided to break through the Fulda Gap.

I could go on. Thanks again.

[larryjohnson]

I am looking across the cove to the summer house of a Retired Army Officer(Armor). If he has a computer here,I want to get him hooked in FR.

[stumpy]

Year before last, VFW POST 3000 in Quartz Hill Ca. laid to rest "old Vic". Vic Retired from the U.S. Army at the end of the Korean war. Vic had been a PROUD member of the U.S. Calvary. He wore his Calvary Campaign hat every day until the day he died. He was my friend and I miss him. Had some very interesting stories to tell about being a "horse soldier" until W.W. II started. Fortunately for Vic, he was no longer with the 26th Calvary in the Phillipines when the war started. Very very few survived the combat and later imprisonment.

[SAMWolf]

I enlisted for Armor, but it was not to be, I'm colorblind and was disqualified. Armor has been a passion with me since grammar school, especially WWII armor.