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The HEMTT is one awesome truck and has become the work horse for all the military branches that use Oshkosh's. Oshkosh years ago used the slogan "Goes Anywhere the wheels touch the ground" Still very ture today!
Thanks for the posting!
the first picture is my 1937 FC model, the second is my 1952 W-712 and the third is myself, my son Austin with Clarence Jungwirth during an Oshkosh Truck visit!
Karl, how cool ! Any pictures of the trucks and the action? Two years ago one of our blowers tried to eat five sets of 757 wheel chocks! Cost us almost $6,000 to fix the blower.
I was just in oshkosh for EAA Air Venture, I spent 13 days there. I was up there to when the guy went off on the postal worker. I was across the street from the house in Oshkosh's headquarters when it all went down!
Karl , Thanks for the respnse and the story. Those Oshkosh's are monsters when it comes to plowingand blowing snow. I am the operations manager at the airport and everyone once in awhile I have to jump in one of the Oshkosh just to get in the way of the true professionals pushing all that snow...
I am sure there is some old Oshkosh in Michigan, I hope next year to drive the countryside of Michigan trying to locate some of those old beauties! I passed on a job offer back in December as the Fire Chief for the Grand Rapids International Airport.
I am an Aficionado and Historian of Oshkosh Truck. I have memorabilia that dates back to the humble beginnings of Oshkosh Truck. With over 6,000 items I would say the most priceless piece is a set of blue prints for the original factory built in March 1920. Oshkosh moved into the current...