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(1) Main gate to Vilseck Training area; ca. '57 ScherpPhoto, 62k |
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(2) Our tanks on a road march keeping the right distance between them, at the tank training center at Grafenwoehr/Vilseck; ca '57 ScherpPhoto, 47k |
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(3) Firing our tanks at the tank firing range at Grafenwoehr/Vilseck, ca '57 ScherpPhoto, 38k |
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(4) M-48 tank in defensive position during an FTX at Grafenwoehr, ca '57 ScherpPhoto, 54k |
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(5) Checking the target with binoculars after a 90mm round has been fired, annual tank firing at Grafenwoehr/Vilseck; ca. '57 ScherpPhoto, 44k |
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(6) Commence fire --- the red flag on the turret signals that the M-48 tank is firing live rounds with its 90mm gun during the annual tank firing at Grafenwoehr/Vilseck; ca. '57 ScherpPhoto, 37k |
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(7) Tankers of Co D, 33rd Tank Bn,
are taking a break after a move to a new position during an FTX at
Grafenwoehr; ca '57 |
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(8) An M48 at Vilseck Tank Training
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(9) Two tanks
of Co D are deeply stuck in the swampy ground during training at
Vilseck. It's the job of the VTR team to winch them out from a
position of higher ground. |
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Tank
151 during an FTX at Grafenwoehr hit a ditch and swampy ground and got
stuck. |
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(11) Another
view of tank 151 stuck in a ditch. |
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(12) n M48 tank of
D/33 on a icy road hit a tree knocking off the track and its compensating idler
wheel, Winter '56 |
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(13)
A
tank is deeply stuck in the mud and the winch cable from a nearby VTR on
higher ground is being hooked up to begin the recovery. The weather during
this FTX at Grafenwoehr had been miserable -- cold and rainy every
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(14) Training
is finished and the tanks
are being loaded at Grafenwoehr on railroad cars for movement back to
Gelnhausen |
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(15) Co C, 33rd Armor, at the tank
gunnery ranges Grafenwoehr |
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(16) Another
view of the accident scene where a lid on an icy road and hit a tree,
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Note: Most of these photos show activities of my company, Co D, 33rd Tank Battalion.
